Finance Washington DC, USA - July 3, 2017: Federal Trade Commission and Housing Finance Agency seals in downtown with closeup of sign and logo
Is Your Condo on Fannie Mae’s Blacklist?

As has been widely reported lately, Fannie Mae, which is under the conservatorship of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has developed a secret blacklist of condominiums, HOAs and co-ops that are ineligible for “conventional financin…

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Q&A Q&A: Privy to Policies
2023 Expo Q&A: Privy to Policies

Q. Our board has too often used confidentiality as a reason for making decisions and not informing the residents as to why. The latest was regarding our HOA insurance policy. Are HOA insurance policies confidential documents? If so, can…

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2023 Expo Q&A: To Fee or Not to Fee?

Q. I’m a board member of my condo association here in New Jersey. All of our board members subscribe to your paper and always find it helpful. We are going to institute a pet registration form for dogs and cats and were thinking of asses…

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2023 Expo Emergency Preparedness

They say you can always count on death and taxes, but there’s another not-so-pleasant inevitability that should probably be added to that old axiom: emergencies. And while some may be relatively minor—a fallen branch on an electrical wire, …

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