Is Your Community Doing Too Much About Crime? [HOAleader.com Video]
HOAleader.com - Tip of the Week -
February 17, 2023
In this week's tip, we use an HOAleader.com reader's question to offer a general warning about inadvertently increasing your association's liability.
Our reader's community is trying out a neighborhood watch app and asked the HOAleader.com Discussion Forum if there are other apps they should consider for "members of the community to report concerns relating to safety."
Hold up, we thought. First, it's important to address different issues. How much responsibility does your community have for its residents' safety?
Click on the arrow below to hear a short clip in which two HOAleader.com experts—Joshua Krut, a partner at Kopelowitz Ostrow Ferguson Weiselberg Gilbert in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who has 23 years in community association law, and 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—answer that question, including why it's risky to assume your community should be viewed as being responsible for residents' safety.
