Enforcement of Your HOA's Rules: How to Create Enforceable Rules, Effective Fines, and a Fair Violation Process Thursday, October 2, 2025
2-3 p.m. Eastern An Exclusive HOAleader.com Webinar with Practical Tips for Condo and HOA Boards |
Our experts tell us that tensions continue to escalate at condos and HOAs—and more and more angry owners are more defiant and willing to challenge authority than ever before. So enforcing your condo or HOA's rules in today's environment must feel like you're in a high-wire act. But ensuring that rules in your community are enforced consistently and fairly doesn't have to be a pitched, tense, and unpleasant battle between your board and your homeowners. With some smart planning, you can make enforcing your HOA's rules quicker, easier, and less stressful. Join us for an in-depth webinar on October 2 led by two community association experts who have decades of hands-on experience in advising associations on how to create and enforce rules and insights on the day-to-day operations of rules enforcement. You'll get up-to-date practical ideas, systems, and processes you can begin to take advantage of at your association the minute the webinar ends. You'll learn: - The role of the lowly rule in HOAs, being less powerful than a CC&R or a bylaw, but easier to implement than provisions in those weightier documents
- How to determine the steps you need to follow to create enforceable rules
- Tips for identifying what you can handle with a rule and what you should never try to accomplish through a rule
- How fines fit into rulemaking, including how to set an effective fine amount and how to know when you've gone too far with a fine
- The steps you need to take to create an effective violation system — from notice of a violation to providing a meaningful right for owners to state their defense at a fair hearing
- Insights into rules you'll never be able to enforce and fines that'll fall short of their goal to curb repeated violations
- Suggestions to help you avoid the most common mistakes boards make creating and enforcing their rules
- And much more!
In just 60 minutes, you'll gain practical, valuable tools you can use right away to make your rules more enforceable and your violation process more fair. Register now for this informative event for community association board members. |
|
| Robert E. Ducharme is founder of
Ducharme Law in Stratham, N.H., whose practice is limited to condo law. He has owned and lived in a residential condominium, owns commercial condominiums, has worked as a condominium property manager, and has practiced condominium law since 2000. Ducharme has developed condominiums for himself, for co-investors, as well as for developers, creating governing documents from scratch and seeing projects through from the initial idea to the handing over of the association from the developer to the
first board of directors. He currently represents 300-plus associations throughout New Hampshire. |
|
| Michael Kim, CCAL, is of counsel at
Schoenberg Finkel Beederman Bell Glazer LLC, where he specializes in condo and HOA law, construction law, real estate law, and civil litigation. In his 40 years of condo and HOA law, Kim has litigated a wide range of cases in addition to drafting governing documents, rules and regulations, and other documents for community associations, developers, and other clients. He has served on the Board of Governors of the CAI College of Community Association Lawyers, of which he's a charter member. Kim
is licensed to practice in Illinois and in its courts and also before various federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. |
A webinar is remarkably convenient. You participate from your home or office, using a telephone and computer with an Internet connection. You have no travel costs, hassle, or commute
time.
Because the conference is live, you can ask the speakers questions via the webinar interface. Many attendees tell us this is the most valuable part of the webinar.
And now, with our special group membership offer, your entire board can attend—even from different locations. This offer requires an HOAleader.com Group Membership. When any group member orders, we will set up access for the entire group. Up to 10 users can attend for one low price. It's another incredible deal as part of HOAleader.com Group Membership.
You will receive access instructions via e-mail several days before the event. You don't need any additional materials before the webinar starts. The conference materials will be provided for you to view, print, and download.
Attend with Confidence
If you are not completely satisfied after attending an HOAleader.com event, let us know within 30 days, and we will refund 100% of your registration fee ... no questions asked.
|
|
|
