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- March 8, 2016
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Condo-monium over construction defect fable undone by real Colorado market statistics

There’s only one thing left to do in the controversy over whether Colorado should back off requiring homebuilders to stand behind the condos they build and end so-called construction defect laws: Call it the total bull crap that it is.    Read the article…………

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- February 18, 2016
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The Transition Engineering Report: Triggering The Statute of Limitations in Condominium Construction Defect Cases

Earlier this year, the New Jersey Appellate Division reversed a Bergen County trial court decision, which had dismissed a construction defect case filed by a condominium association more than six years after the condominium complex was substantially completed, but less than six years after the association received the transition engineering report identifying construction defects.   Read […]

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- May 13, 2015
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New Home Nightmares: First Coast News Investigates

Each year, tens of thousands of people buy new homes in Florida. Most do so with the belief that a new home will have fewer problems and headaches than an older one.  But a First Coast News investigation has found that some new homes — including those in very prestigious communities, with half-million dollar price […]

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- May 8, 2015
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Appeals court yields pro-builder ruling in construction-defects case

The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled this week that the stipulation in a homeowner association’s bylaws that arbitration be used as the resolution method in construction-defects disputes can’t be removed by the association without the consent of the builder.   Read the article………..

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- March 27, 2015
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A Beacon for Homeowners and HOAs. Not So Much for Design Professionals (CA)

Earlier we wrote about a case that made architects none too happy – Beacon Residential Community Association v. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Case No. A134542 (December 13, 2012) – in which the California Court of Appeals for the First District held that architects could be sued by a homeowner’s associations (“HOA”) and, by implication, […]

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- March 19, 2015
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Colorado Senate Wins the “Arizoonie” Award

I thought I had retired the “Arizoonie”.  This was originally an annual award I gave to the state that proposed the dumbest community association proposed law each year.  The nickname “Arizoonie” was given because Arizona continually won the award and that is also why I stopped giving it – the same state won every year. […]

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- March 17, 2015
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A few red flags on construction defects (CO)

SB 15-177, Construction Defects, can provide relief for both homeowners and developers from costly and often reckless litigation. The bill can empower homeowners by requiring them to vote on and approve the use of HOA funds in litigation. However, the bill raises a few major red flags of concern that unless addressed will negate the […]

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