Condo Association Management Blog

My guess is that you are responsible for the whole thing. I am in IL as well and had to replace the air conditioner which is on the roof of a five-story building and I am on the second floor. The contractor initially thought there was a damaged pipe somewhere between my condo and the a/c unit and I was told I'll be the one responsible for repairing it. Luckily, the pipe was fine and I only had to pay for replacement a/c unit.

If you were to download the Illinois Condo act you would read 
 
" (5) Any shutters, awnings, window boxes, doorsteps,  
 
porches, balconies, patios, perimeter doors, windows in perimeter walls, and any other apparatus designed to serve a single unit shall be deemed a limited common element appertaining to that unit exclusively."  
 
This statement coupled with the provisions in your bylaws make you wholely responsible for the repairs. 
 
 
 

Here's the Illinois Condominium Property Act: 
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2200&ChapterID=62

I saw an article on HOA giving back a surplus to Home owners, How awesome is that. Our HOA board hired a construction firm who's work is done over and over and over again because of all the mistakes and who currently is not licensed, and even hired an Architect to be manager of the project. Being a contractor I wondered why would anyone hire a Architect to manage a Contractor? 
 
Let alone our board continues to support their team on site now for 5 months who just called for an emergency 2.2 million assessment they want more money. And told us if we go for the approved loan which there is no paper work, no bid, no proposal, just the figure the architect worked in his head, which by the way is not an Architect, cited and fined for acting as one by Ca. board of Artitects, our board still defends and says we must vote yes, well this Architect we just found out has already been paid $130.000.00 dollars so far and this construction company who we were told was paid 330.000.00 by Our Board 
 
in fact has got over $600.000 these 5 months of redo work. The Architect gets paid 26.000.00 a month, boy I would say there is an emergency Steps to remove these corrupt people, please help. 
 
Cant afford the city of bell

To Gregory: 
 
Get together with other owners and remove the board. Check your by-laws to see how many votes are needed to call a special meeting and make sure you have the necessary support. Then either request a special meeting or call your own. Make sure you have majority of owners on your side and that you have enough people to staff a new board.

Please confine your posts to the subject raised. Yor latest discourse had no relationship to the original topic raised and all you do is confuse the others who participate. Start your own topic don't tag onto someone elses.

Even if you throw out the present board you will not be able to get that bill off your back, You cannor change the provisions of your state condo act. Stop wasting you time.

sounds familiar...trying to figure what exactly are the common elements; ...does it say in your by-lawa?

I'm the manager of a condo in south florida, a unit owner has a leak in her bathroom and it is affecting the unit below, I have placed several calls to the owner and she has not taken care of the problem, can we force our way into the unit and repair it and charge her for the cost to repair the damage. Would this be considered an emergency. Board members want to call the police and break down the door and fix the problem. 
 
I'm reluctant to do this, waht is your opinion.

to Jorge: 
 
What do your association's bylaws say? Our bylaws classify water leaks as emergency and allow board members to enter the premises and fix the problem at the expense of the unit owner. Board members have to give reasonable notice, but if the unit owner refuses to cooperate, they can force their way in to fix the leak.