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Rules & Regulations• May 22, 2020

Coronavirus: What Condos and HOA’s Need to Know About Re-Opening Recreational Facilities

Michiganders living in condominiums and homeowners associations have been subject to some form of a stay-at-home order since March 24, 2020 due to COVID-19. However, Governor Gretchen Whitmer has started reopening portions of Northern Michigan, and it is expected that the restrictions on recreational facilities in community associations throughout Michigan will be relaxed in the near future. However, at the…

Michigan Court of Appeals Holds that HOA Cannot Revoke Approvals for Docks

In providing such written permission, it is important for a homeowners association to indicate whether the grant of permission is permanent or revocable.

Michigan Court Rules that Homeowners Association Did Not Violate Fair Housing Act in Refusing Fence for Emotional Support and Service Dogs

In Fox Bay Civic Assn, Inc v Creswell, unpublished opinion of the Court of Appeals, issued May 30, 2019 (Docket No. 343384), the Michigan Court of Appeals held that a homeowners association could enforce its deed restrictions banning fences and that a disabled owner could not erect a fence in order to keep her emotional support and service dogs in…