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Index of Articles

I. Assessment Collection

A. Generally

1. Prohibition Against Garnishment of Federal Wages Expected to Fall (Summer 1993)
2. When is Settlement Day a Day of Reckoning? He Said…She Said (Fall 1993)
3. President Signs Garnishment Bill (Fall 1993)
4. Please, Please…Mr. Postman (Summer 1994)
5. Federal Wage Garnishment (Summer 1994)
6. Late Fee Rejected by Court (Summer 1994)
7. Collecting Our Thoughts on Collecting Your Assessments (Summer 1994)
8. Not a Good Sign (Summer 1996)
9. Signs of Rebellion (Summer 1996)
10. Just as Liable (Spring 2002)
11. This Must be Heaven (Spring 2002)

B. Bankruptcy

1. Collection Strategies in Hard Times– Dealing with Foreclosure and Bankruptcy (Fall 1992)
2. Bankruptcy Write-offs: Going…Going…(But Not Gone)(Summer 1994)
3. Bankruptcy Write-offs: Back into the Fog with the Fed (Winter 1995)
4. Bankruptcy Fog Lifts for HOA's (Winter 1998)
5. That Titanic Feeling (Winter 1998)
6. Back to the Future (Winter 2000)
7. Turnip Case (Summer 2001)

C. Lien Enforcement and Judgment Liens

1. Maryland Circuit Court Upholds Right to Lien in Linganore (Fall 1993)
2. Judgment Enforcement: It's All in the Name (Summer 1994)
3. Lien to the Left! Lien to the Right! (Summer 1995)
4. Enforcing the Perfected Lien (Winter 1995)
5. Lien Foreclosures: Following Major Court Victory, Associations Lobbying for Cheaper, Faster Option (Winter 1998)
6. Liens Under Fire (Spring 2000)
7. Judicial Sales (Winter 2000)
8. Dodged Bullet (Winter 2000)
9. Double, Double Toil and Trouble (Summer 2001)

D. Attorney's Fees

1. Recovering Legal Fees Under the POA Act (Spring 1995)
2. Reasonable Attorney's Fees an Oxymoron? (Summer 1995)
3. Reasonable Attorney's Fee-Part II (Winter 1996)
4. Court Finds That Attorney's Fees Are the Weakest Link (Summer 2001)

II. Covenant and Rule Enforcement

A. Generally

1. Architectural Control Committees Needed (Winter 1993)
2. Maryland Appellate Court Upholds Montgomery County Commission Fees (Winter 1993)
3. Where the Sun Shines (Summer 1994)
4. The Russians are Coming (Summer 1995)
5. ADR Program Negotiating New Turf (Summer 1995)
6. Watching Grass Grow (Winter 1995)
7. Talkin' Trash Part II (Winter 1996)
8. Suits and Ladders (Winter 1996)
9. EV Phone Home(owners) Association (Winter 1998)
10. Slice of Life (Spring 2000)
11. I'll See You in Arbitration (Spring 2000)

B. Charges (fines)

1. Bring Out Your Dead! Bring Out Your Dead! (Summer 1994)
2. Mastering Fine Arts (Spring 1995)
3. Sign Fines (Summer 1996)
4. Sunshine Comes to Condo Canyon (Spring 2000)
5. Covenant Trolls (Winter 2000)
6. Crocodiles in the Pool (Summer 2001)
7. Charge Checklist: Don't Leave Home Without It (Summer 2001)

C. Waiver/Laches/Selective Enforcement

1. Don't Waive Your Covenant Enforcement Rights Goodbye (Fall 1992)
2. Fenced in at Fairfax (Summer 1995)
3. The Drapes of Wrath: A Covenant Violation Viewed Through Rose-Colored Curtains (Winter 1995)
4. Classic Grandfathering (Winter 1996)

D. Repeal and Amendment

1. Rules Revolution in Fluvanna! (Winter 1996)

E. Business Judgment Rule

1. After Further Review…Judge Reverses Field in Flagpole Case (Winter 1994)

F. Constitutional Issues

1. Sign, Sign…Everywhere a Sign (Summer 1996)
2. I Should Mow the Lawn…I'll Think About it Tomorrow (Summer 1996)

G. Parking

1. Towing the Line in Prince William (Spring 1993)
2. Nightmares About the Tow Monster (Spring 1994)
3. Park Place (Summer 1994)
4. Virginia Towing Alert (Winter 1994)
5. The Minnow Could be Lost II (Spring 1995)
6. Nightmare About the Tow Monster-Part II (Summer 1995)
7. The Minnow Could be Lost! (Winter 1995)
8. Boats in the Street Bill (Winter 1996)
9. Land on Free Parking– Go Directly to Court (Winter 1998)
10. Non-Garage Owners Lose Free Parking Card (Spring 2000)
11. Boats in the Street III (Spring 2000)
12. Backfire (Winter 2000)

J. Pets

1. Much Ado About Nothing? (Spring 1994)
2. Let Me Tell You About the Burbs and the Bees (Winter 1994)
3. Responding to Your Neighborhood Pet Detective (Winter 1994)
4. Mad Cow Owners (Winter 1998)
5. When the Dog Bites (Winter 1998)

K. Tenants

1. Evicta! (Winter 1998)

L. Flamingos

1. Litigating Away in Margaritaville– Part II (Summer 1995)
2. Flamingo Case Appealed (Winter 1995)
3. Last Call for "Margaritaville" (Winter 1996)

M. Satellite Dishes and Cable

1. Cable Television (Summer 1994)
2. Outta Sight, Like a Sa-Te-Lite (Dish)…Not Likely (Summer 1996)

N. Occupancy Limits and Home Businesses

1. Oh, For Crying Out Loud…(Spring 1995)
2. Goodnight Chip. Goodnight Emma (Winter 1995)

III. Maintenance and Repair

A. Generally

1. Keys to Avoiding Unit Access Problems (Fall 1992)
3. Trouble in the Pipeline for Associations (Fall 1993)
2. Fundamentals of "Trickle-Down Leak-Onomics" (Winter 1993)
4. Who Pays to Fix It– Principals of Maintenance Responsibilities
5. "Trickle-Down Leak-Onomics" Revisited (Summer 1996)
6. Torching the Roof (Winter 1996)
7. Right On Right of Way! (Spring 2000)
8. Grandma, what Big Teeth you Have! (Summer 1994)

IV. Operation of Association

A. Generally

1. Taking the Common Area Deed for 'Granted' (Fall 1992)
2. Security and the Community Association: A Primer in Self-Defense (Summer 1993)
3. Trouble in the Pipeline for Associations (Fall 1993)
4. Who Can Sign for the Association? (Summer 1996)
5. Ten Tips for Improving Your Rules Resolutions in the New Year (Winter 1998)
6. An Endangered Species? (Spring 2000)
7. I'll See You in Arbitration! (Spring 2000)
8. Extinguished (Summer 2001)
10. Developer Obleck (Spring 2002)
11. First We Kill All the Lawyers (Spring 2002)

B. Books and Records

1. Passing the Torch (Winter 1996)
2. Sunshine Common to Condo Canyon (Spring 2000)
3. Tick. Tick. Tick…(Summer 2001)
4. Racing Forum: Tracking the 2000 Legislature (Winter 2000)

C. Voting and Meetings

1. Amending Your Bylaws -- New Virginia Law Lowers Lender Approval Hurdles (Spring 1993)
2. Coming into the Light by Filing the Annual Report (Summer 1993)
3. Sunshine Comes to Condo Canyon (Spring 2000)
4. Secret Tax Records (Spring 2000)
5. You've Got Votes (Summer 2001)
6. We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This (Summer 2001)
7. Annual Meeting Survey: Reaching Quorum (Spring 2002)
8. The Electricity Struck the Kite and then Raced Towards the Key (Spring 2002)

D. Accounting/Taxes/Finance/Reserves

1. Call Your Auditor -- New Associations Guidelines Alert (Winter 1993)
2. Backdraft (Spring 1995)
3. Condominium Cookie Jars (Spring 2000)
4. Municipal Services (Spring 2000)
5. Secret Tax Records (Spring 2000)
6. Racing Forum: Tracking the 2002 Legislature

E. Managers

1. Decision on Property Manager Licensing Postponed (Summer 1993)
2. Disabilities Act Could Apply to Association Management Companies (Winter 1993)
3. Manager Licensing (Summer 1994)
4. Bring out your Dead! Bring out your Dead! (Summer 1994)
5. Study Shows Property Managers Not a Danger to Public (Spring 1995)
6. PCAMS and Cashews (Winter 1995)

V. Sales

A. Generally

1. When is Settlement Day a Day of Reckoning? He said…She said…(Fall 1993)
2. Supreme Court Comments on Document Review Contingency (Spring 1994)
3. Builder Bills (Winter 1995)
4. Disclosure (Winter 1995)
5. Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, Fire Burn and Caldron Bubble (Winter 1996)
6. Suits and Ladders (Winter 1996)
7. Adopt a Library (Winter 2000)
8. Faster, Higher (Summer 2001)
9. Racing Forum: Tracking the 2002 Legislature

VI. Torts and Liabilities

A. Generally

1. Grandma, What Big Teeth You Have! (Summer 1994)
2. Housing Counsel: Pick Insurance with Care for Condo Association (Winter 1994)
3. Volunteers (Winter 1998)

B. Director Liability

1. State Study Declines to Indict Volunteer Board Members (Winter 2000)
2. Selected Comments: Fairfax Hearing Real Estate Board (Winter 2000)
3. The 2001 Assembly: Nothing Could be Finer (Spring 2000)

C. Negligence

1. Water World (Winter 1998)
2. When the Dog Bites (Winter 1998)
3. Common Area Liability (Summer 2001)

D. Nuisance

1. Dam! (Spring 2000)

E. Fair Housing and Discrimination

1. Employment Practices Under the Americans With Disabilities Act (Spring 1993)
2. Disabilities Act Could Apply to Association/Management Companies (Winter 1993)

F. Employee Relations

1. Slip and Fall (Summer 1995)

G. Defamation

1. If You Can't Say Something Nice…(Winter 1996)

VII. Common Area Property Rights

A. Generally

1. Taking the Common Area Deed for Granted (Fall 1992)
2. Much Ado About Nothing (Spring 1994)
3. Fenced-In at Fairfax (Summer 1995)
4. Right on Right of Way (Spring 2000)

B. Environmental Issues

1. Talking Trash in Montgomery County (Spring 1993)
2. Move Over "White Water" (Winter 1995)
3. Talkin' Trash-Part II (Winter 1996)
4. Dam! (Spring 2000)

VIII. Legislation

1. Assembly Pieces: Acts of the 1993 Virginia Legislature (Spring 1993)
2 Assembly Pieces 1994: Virginia Awash in New Laws (Spring 1994)
3. Holy Monopoly, Batman! (Summer 1994)
4. The Virginia Way (Spring 1995)
5. Assembly Pieces: The 1995 Legislative Session (Spring 1995)
6. With a Vengeance (Summer 1995)
7. And it Has a View of Red Square (Summer 1995)
8. Community Associations En Garde in 1996 Session (Summer 1996)
9. Double, Double. Toil and Trouble. Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble (Winter 1996)
10. Statutory "Tweaking" Expected to Generate Several New Laws (Winter 1998)
11. Sunshine Comes to Condo Canyon (Spring 2000)
12. Racing Forum: Tracking the 2000 Legislature (Winter 2000)
13. We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This (Summer 2001)
14. And the Oscar Goes to…(Summer 2001)
15. Racing Forum: Tracking the 2002 Legislative (Spring 2002)