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Michigan Court upholds condo association fines for unauthorized wind turbine and generator

/ Owner - February 4, 2019

In Oak Valley Estates Homeowners Association v Georgetta Livingstone, Unpublished Opinion of the Michigan Court of Appeals, Docket No. 338292 (January 22, 2019), the Michigan Court of Appeals upheld a monetary judgment in favor of a condominium association, for fines and attorney’s fees and costs, after granting an injunction requiring that a co-owner remove solar panels, a wind turbine and a generator that were installed without permission from the board of directors. While this case is not precedentially binding, it does provide a good roadmap for condominium associations to follow when imposing fines and it is instructive on how to deal with difficult co-owners.     Read the article……………………

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