{"id":7269,"date":"2025-06-10T11:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:05:48","slug":"meeb-newsletter-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/2025\/06\/10\/meeb-newsletter-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"MEEB Newsletter June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 22px;\"><u>CONDO 101: ALL UNIT OWNERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMMON AREA REPAIR COSTS<\/u><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MEEB SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS ASSOCIATION\u2019S ASSESSMENT AGAINST OWNER SAYS NO TO PAYING FOR BUILDING NOT LIVED IN<\/p>\n<p>In a recent court decision, the Massachusetts Superior Court agreed with MEEB that a unit owner could not avoid paying an assessment because they didn\u2019t use a portion of the common areas. In Gaab, et al. v. Board of Trustees of Townhomes at Beecher Place Condominium Trust, the owners of a unit filed a lawsuit asking the judge to declare that they have no obligation to pay any portion of an assessment to cover the costs of foundation repairs and earthwork needed to stop one of the condominium buildings from sinking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeb.com\/marcus-errico-emmer-brooks-newsletter\/unit-owner-responsible-assessment?ss_source=sscampaigns&amp;ss_campaign_id=6847108c6b57fe78f2c954fe&amp;ss_email_id=684841959c1b7b1e8541b9f0&amp;ss_campaign_name=Assessment+Due%2C+Aging+in+Place%2C+Avoiding+Litigation%2C+Advisory+Capacity&amp;ss_campaign_sent_date=2025-06-10T14%3A32%3A02Z\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONDO 101: ALL UNIT OWNERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMMON AREA REPAIR COSTS MEEB SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS ASSOCIATION\u2019S ASSESSMENT AGAINST OWNER SAYS NO TO PAYING FOR BUILDING NOT LIVED IN In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"arc_restricted_post":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,29,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-of-trustees","category-owners-area","category-board_blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbMqog-1Tf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7272,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions\/7272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}