Ingress and egress are fundamental characteristics defining the usefulness of property. Sometimes, access runs across another owner’s lot. Many lots lack sufficient (or any) frontage on the right of way to get a vehicle through without an easement. Driveway easements inevitably result in disagreements, or at least tension, in the neighborly relations between the “landlocked” […]

Do you live in a community? A “community” is a group of people who listen to each other when it is important. Anyone can call themselves a community. To really be one, that title must be “earned.” That starts with communication. If leaders expect to be heard, but ignore or deflect the relevant questions or […]

For most homeowners’ associations, the declaration is clear enough about assessments that the lot owners have little doubt whether they can be enforced. The developer has every incentive to make this clear. Community associations run on assessments as fuel. Sometimes inattentive developers hire inexperienced attorneys to write the declaration, and the language is too unclear […]