Our monthly newsletter full of helpful tips and advice for Illinois condominium and homeowner associations. This month: Fake security cameras and installation of surveillance cameras in your association “Owner Only” meetings and practical tips for how to keep your...
News & Events
Can the board prohibit non-owners from attending meetings?
We are often asked how a board should handle non-owners, such as tenants, visitors and guests attending (and disrupting) board meetings. Whether or not to prohibit non-owners from attending board meetings is purely a judgment call for the board to make. Technically,...
Legal Tips – How to Adopt a Condominium Association Annual Budget
Budgets are required and, if using a good template, not very difficult to prepare, distribute and adopt. While your association’s governing documents will include some basic requirements, most of the process is dictated by the Illinois Condominium Property Act...
Altus Legal – September 2018 Newsletter
Follow this LINK to access our September 2018 newsletter. Chicago Bar Association Chairmanship Evicting Problem Tenants from the Association Association Rules-How Do We Adopt New Rules? Capital Expenditures Outside Approved Budget
Founder Nicholas Bartzen named Co-Chairman of Chicago Bar Association Condominium Subcommittee
Third year as Condo Subcommittee Co-Chairperson Altus Legal founder Nicholas Bartzen named as co-chair of the Chicago Bar Association Condominium Subcommittee. This is the third year Nicholas has served in this role. The CBA Condominium Subcommittee is a collective of...
Evicting Problem Tenants from the Association (Condos)
Here’s the situation – a unit owner has leased his/her unit to a problematic tenant. The unit owner lives elsewhere, so it’s become the board job to “babysit” the tenant, dealing with violations, loud parties, or destruction of common elements, etc. Despite the...
Video – Evicting a Problem Tenant from the Association
CAI-Illinois August Newsletter – Executive Session Minutes and Violation Procedures
See the linked article here from CAI-Illinois from the August Newsletter regarding Executive Session Meeting Minutes and Violation Procedures.