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# Can association send owner to collections for special assessment only?

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## What do you think? Question:

In Massachusetts can unit owners be sent to collections for owing special assessment fees only and are current on common area monthly fees, even after the assessment period has ended? How then can the association recoup the fees owed?

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## What do you think? Answers (7)

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