HOAleader.com - Tip of the Week - October 22, 2021
Published: Fri, 10/22/21
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HOAleader.com - Tip of the Week - October 22, 2021
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Think everybody is totally on board with our furry friends? If so, please read this week's tip for what may come as surprising news.
The most common scenario today? Communities are tiring of the challenges pets bring and shutting down owners' ability to have them.
We asked our experts for tips about transitioning from a no-pet facility to one that allows pets.
"This situation is somewhat rare," says Michael Kim, of counsel at Schoenberg Finkel Beederman Bell Glazer in Chicago, who represents about 500 associations. "It's usually the other way, where communities are going from being pet friendly to not."
Ditto for Todd J. Billy, CCAL, an attorney at The Community Association Lawyers in St. Louis, who is licensed in Missouri and Illinois and has more than 1,000 active condo and HOA clients. "The trend here is a shift to no pets, particularly for smaller associations," he says.
That's also the case in the south, at least when it comes to tenants. "Here, that was a trend a few years back—going from not allowing pets to allowing pets—but that's not so now," reports Zulema Mendoza, LCAM, regional vice president at KW Property Management, who oversees about 20 condo and HOA communities in Southwest Florida and North Carolina. "What we're seeing is that the documents have been amended to where tenants weren't allowed pets and owners were. That's more in a condo setting, not so much in HOAs."
Why the shift? At least for Mendoza's clients, it's to address problems with pets. "Off the top of my head, I can tell you out of my portfolio of properties, we've seen about four condos go from allowing everyone to have bets to allowing owners, not tenants, to have pets," she explains. "What prompted them to do that was the responsibility around it. They want to reduce the number of pets on the property because of the irresponsibly of some pet owners. It's to deal with owners not picking up after pets, noise, the failure to leash, and everything that comes with irresponsible pet owners."
If you're bucking the trend and shifting from banning to permitting pets, our experts say it's about communication and setting expectations. Read how to make the shift smoothly in our new article: https://www.hoaleader.com/members/4408.cfm
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