Condo Association Management Blog

If you are charged a maintenance fee- look to see if that is one item that you are paying for if not perhaps this needs to be addressed at your meetings and the expense amount when approved on should be added to all the owners monthly fee.

When it comes to cleaning up, I believe that there are no legal or hard rules. Each condo association makes their own. If it is your condo association's rule that the snow removal is a duty that falls on its owners, then I would think that you would not be able to get reimbursed if you hire someone to do the work for you. Unless of course, if you actually get paid to remove the snow, then you'd just give the guy you hire the money that the association gives you... but I have a feeling that it's not the case here, right? 
 
So if your Condo Association has it in their own rules that snow removal duties are to be handled by owners, make sure that: 
 
1. You take turns (and hopefully your turn won't be when 6 feet of snow fall. 
 
2. If you hire someone, make sure that they are licensed and insured... if anyone gets hurt, doing ANYTHING for your Condo Association, they could come after your assets... meaning your property. 
 
3. If you still don't want to be bothered with shoveling snow and feel that it's unfair that you have to do it, or that you are not reimbursed for it if you hire someone else, then put it up for discussion in your next Condo Association meeting and vote on it.  
 
4. Depending on the area to be shoveled, especially if it's large, then maybe have the association invest in the purchase of a snow blower... which will make the task easier -  
 
5. Shoveling snow is a very strenuous task... and if you're not fit enough, you could actually get hurt... and, not to scare you, even die of a heart attack!... So if this is a concern, bring it up for discussion/vote with your Condo Association. 
 
Hope this helps.  
 
Clarke

Our condo had the same situation with painting our limited common area porches when the complex was painted last year. The Board decided that each homeowner was responsible for painting their own porch, with the Association providing the paint. If a homeowner did not wish to paint their porch themselves, the owner paid the Association for the painter to paint it. It saved individual homeowners a little money if they wanted to do it themselves. The only glitch was that several unit owners said they would paint their own porch, and it took more than a year for some of them do 'get around to it.' That was the Board's fault for not setting a time limit. I would think there would be a liability issue if a unit owner worked on a common area, but I don't think there is one if it's a limited common area. Anyone have a different take on that?

With only four units, I am assuming you are self-managed. That means that owners share responsibility/cost of maintanence. 
 
If you choose you may hire someone to do your share, but others may prefer to do it themselves. 
 
Are you willing to reimburse them for their labor?

Our assoc. contains 298 units and approximately 4 miles of sand and gravel roads that we need to keep clear of snow in the winter and perform maintenance in the summer. We are considering purchasing a road truck and recruiting a few members to run the truck to do the work. Our insurance policy does allow for members to perform the work with the addition of a rider and a nominal annual fee protecting both the members and the association. We did not choose to go this route at this time as it is too difficult to get a commitment from members to guarantee the roads would be kept clear of snow. We hired separate contractors for both the snow removal and summer maintenance.

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I think it depends on whether the condominium documents say that the association "shall" or "may" be responsible for maintenance. That one word makes a difference. Maintenance means garbage removal, snow removal, painting etc. Do others have these problems? It's an ongoing one here.

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