2007

This past Sunday’s edition of the Denver Post featured an article on the delay homeowners associations are experiencing with the removal of holiday lights and decorations by owners.  The article states that due to the unusually harsh winter, associations are relaxing their normal enforcement of restrictive covenants that require decorations to be removed within 30…

Well, here we are, Ash Wednesday; past Martin Luther King’s birthday, President’s Day, and Mardi Gras, and some homeowners still have their Christmas and Hannukah decorations on their homes from those holiday celebrations. As we all know, many restrictive covenants specify a period of time following the specific holiday during which the decorations must be removed from the house. And yet, our weather has been such that, in many cases removing those decorations may not be done safely due to the onslaught of snow storms and the accumulation of snow, all of which seems to have been exacerbated by the regular weekend snow storms. Should the board nevertheless enforce those restrictive covenants and impose fines, or is there an alternative?Continue Reading What To Do About Those Holiday Decorations?

Occasionally, we’ll hear from an association’s board of directors about how proud they are that they haven’t had to raise assessments for some period of time – 10 years, plus or minus. Typically, they are touting what great stewards they have been of their members’ money, and how grateful the members should be. Oftentimes, the comments come in the heat of candidacies for election of members to the board of directors. Sometimes, they even wonder out loud why their members don’t appreciate the money saving efforts of the board. What they are missing follows.Continue Reading Not Increasing Assessments? Good For You – Or Is It?

We all know that our 2006 legislature was very busy cleaning up SB-100 adopted in 2005. The legislature, in its haste to get SB 100 passed, left more than a little ambiguity in its provisions. As we’ve reported in the past, SB-89 (formally known as SB06-89) is the clean up bill. We’ve attached here a…