How to Make Your Architectural Review Committee More Fair and Effective
Thursday, June 11, 2020
2-3 p.m. Eastern
An Exclusive HOAleader.com Webinar
With Practical Tips for Condo and HOA Boards
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A recent North Carolina case, Duff v. The Sanctuary at Lake Wylie Property Owners Association, sums up the challenges with architectural review committees—they often don't have great policies and procedures, and they can get your condo or HOA into big legal trouble.
In Duff, the court held that an HOA's ARC essentially put homeowners through the motions with no intention of approving their architectural requests. That arbitrariness cost the HOA dearly—$70,000 in punitive damages alone.
Duff isn't the first case in which an ARC acted improperly, and it won't be the last. But we can help you ensure your community's ARC doesn't land your association in similarly choppy waters—and we can help you tackle the new questions ARCs face today as a result of challenges triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us for an in-depth webinar on June 11, when two community association lawyers will help you
understand how you can strengthen your ARC to ensure fewer headaches, happier owners, and a fairer, more consistent outcome.
- The many different ways governing documents address architectural review (some allow broad powers, others less, some have a separate and independent committee, others don't)
- A review of a few cases in various states showing the ways ARCs got community associations in legal trouble
- Who should be on your ARC and whether you can make changes whenever you think it would improve your processes
- How to determine which architectural changes need to be approved by your ARC and which don't—and whether that standard has changed today temporarily or permanently as a result of COVID-19
- The factors the ARC should consider in reviewing requests—every single time they get a request, along with tips for reviewing applications today in light of COVID-19 challenges
- Whether your ARC or board can control or influence owners' decisions about whether they can have workers on site inside and outside their homes, and when it might be wise to do so, if it's possible
- How you and your ARC members can improve consistency and predictability for owners by creating a historical record to ensure ARC members today, and those in five years, are aware of past decisions
- How owners can appeal ARC decisions
- Dos and don'ts when it comes to ARC practices
- And much more!
In one hour, you'll receive information you can implement immediately to ensure your ARC operates professionally and consistently—and ultimately that your owners will understand and respect your ARC's decisions.
Register now for this informative event for community association board members.
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| Attorney Susan Hawks McClintic is a co-managing shareholder and chair of the
community association transactional practice group at Epsten in San Diego. McClintic's expertise is in document interpretation, amendment, and restatement. Each fall, McClintic speaks at her firm's legal symposium—with its 600-plus clients and guests—on new laws affecting community associations. In 2014, she gave more than 20 presentations to nearly 500 community association managers and board members on changes to California's Davis-Stirling common interest development law. McClintic earned her
law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School.
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| Attorney Molly Peacock is counsel at Rees Broome in Tysons Corner, Va. She has represented condos and HOAs for nearly 15 years, at Rees Brooms since 2015 and previously as the lead attorney at a law firm she founded, the Peacock Law Firm. She is a frequent speaker at legal and community association conferences and comes from a military family where service, leadership, and problem solving are infused into all aspects of professional and personal life. Peacock earned her law
degree from the University of Richmond School of Law.
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time.
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Membership.
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