Condominium and Homeowners Association Disputes
Marks & Frazier’s attorneys provide legal counseling to condominium, homeowners and cooperative associations, as well as to individual owners. Our services include owner-association disputes, collection of delinquent accounts; enforcement and interpretation of covenants and restrictions; pursuit of construction defect and warranty claims; and negotiation of contracts for provision of services.
We represent individuals and entities ranging from individual owners to large high-rise towers, golf and country club communities, expansive master homeowner associations, and smaller homeowners and condominium associations.
Basic Services
Marks & Frazier, through our construction, corporate, real estate and community association law practice, can provide a wide range of association-related services:
- Interpretation of association governing documents
- Preparation of amendments to association governing documents
- Enforcement of association governing documents
- Applicability of Division of Condominium regulations and state law to operation of association
- Legal counsel on all day-to-day operational decisions of the association
- Collection and enforcement of association assessments
- Lien and foreclosure of past-due assessments
- Drafting and negotiation of service provider contracts
- Preparation of meeting packages for annual and other meetings
- Attendance at and legal counsel regarding elections of directors
- Legal counsel to owner’s committees prior to turnover
- Preparation for and attendance at association pre- and post-turnover meetings
- Construction defect claims
- Pursuit and defense of statutory and other construction warranty claims
- Review and negotiation of loan/line of credit documents