County’s hotel-condo cases winding down (WI)

The city of Delavan may be a loser in the 17-month-old lawsuit filed by Lake Lawn Resort’s unit owners against its own condominium association board of directors and hotel managers.  The city of Delavan was not a party to the lawsuit, but in a decision connected to the Lake Lawn suit, the state appeals court ruled that a fee-in-lieu of room taxes paid to the city is illegal. The fee is imposed on rooms that are not rented out to hotel guests. Rooms not rented out to transient visitors would not collect a hotel tax. But they would be assessed the fee. The fee began at $250 a month with increases pegged to the Consumer Price Index.     Read the article……….