Law & Legislation Poisoned Ground
Poisoned Ground

On Tuesday, the State of New Jersey filed two environmental lawsuits: one against Honeywell International for its role in what the regional news site northjersey.com calls “a cornucopia of pollution” stemming from an industrial facility…

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Law & Legislation Radburn vs. COVID
Radburn vs. COVID

In July 2017, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law P.L. 2017, Ch. 106 (S-2492/A-4091), known colloquially as ‘the Radburn Bill’ or simply ‘Radburn,’ the law made significant changes to the Planned Real Estate Development Full …

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COVID-19 Cultivating Community During COVID
Cultivating Community During COVID

The challenge of creating a sense of community during a pandemic is not something most people expected to face in their lifetime...but here we are. And while face-to-face communication is an essential part of daily life for most of us, we’v…

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Q&A Q&A: Common Elements vs. Individual Unit Elements
Fall 2020 Q&A: Common Elements vs. Individual Unit Elements

Q.   I live in a condo association. Our master deed includes detailed and specific sections that list what items are included in a unit and further state that these items are the unit owner’s responsibility to maintain, repair, or replace …

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Q&A Q&A: Conflict of Interest?
Fall 2020 Q&A: Conflict of Interest?

Q. Can a newly-appointed vice president to the board, who is also a broker, sell units in his/her condo building? I would think that this would be a conflict of interest since the board member has access to all personal information about …

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Q&A Q&A: Balcony Alteration
Fall 2020 Q&A: Balcony Alteration

Q. A homeowner in a condo asks the board to allow the alteration of the balcony enclosure to a taller height. The board and management company agree and the alteration takes place. Twenty-five years later a new manager says that was impro…

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Q&A Q&A: Amending Governing Documents and the Radburn Act
Fall 2020 Q&A: Amending Governing Documents and the Radburn Act

Q.   I live in an adult community in South Jersey for 55-and-older people. It is a single-family fee simple community with an HOA. Our governing documents were amended in 2003 after receiving approval of two-thirds of the members. The gove…

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Management Community Meetings in the Time of COVID
Fall 2020 Community Meetings in the Time of COVID

Social distancing, lockdowns, quarantine, remote work, distance learning—all new terms to most of us just a few months ago—have not just entered our everyday vocabularies; they have changed the way we live our everyday lives. In a time when…

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Management Supporting Essential Building Workers
Fall 2020 Supporting Essential Building Workers

While residents of condos, co-ops, and HOAs do their part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by staying in their homes as much as they can, they rely on the supers, porters, valets, doorpeople, janitorial workers, handymen and -women, securi…

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