Yes is the short answer.
Read your governing documents -- and in this case, perhaps a Resolution crafted to collect assessments -- to understand both your obligation to pay your assessments and the association's responsibility to add fines when you don't pay on time.
Read your governing documents, including any board resolutions that impose fines. Your board or association management company can help you understand the limit of behaviours which are fine-able offences.
Read your governing documents, and determine what action must be taken before a lien is filed. When you're ready to file a lien, work with your association-savvy attorney to accomplish this task.
If a condo association has a loss and the association's insurance is inadequate to cover the loss, the association is permitted to assess each unit owner for the amount they are lacking. However, since there is no negligence on the unit owners part this is generally not covered by the owner's own liability portion of his policy. The unit owner must purchase additional loss assessment coverage to protect against this additional loss assessment scenario.
Legally, in USA, associations are not permitted to conduct background checks on 'new owners'. So, they would not be able to charge for such a search. Individual unit owners may be able to conduct checks on prospective tenants. Co-ops may be able to assess prospective investors, and this is made clear prior to the consummation of any purchase in a co-op.
Homeowner associations are not voluntary: purchasing property governed by an association means that the owner is obligated to abide by the governing documents. Additional memberships, such as use of pool, golf course, club house and so forth may be optional. Assessments are collected from owners to support the operation of the association's business. If your governing documents subject you to paying assessments, and the board has the power to assess them, then they are due and owing.
There may be no limit to the number of 'years back;, but the association may not exceed a length of ownership. It is unreasonable and may not be legal to assess past due monies on a 'unit' with more than one non-paying owner over the years. Assessments are due and owing by owners. Owners who do not pay assessments and who sell their units without any association attempts to collect the past due monies, essentially escape paying what they owe.
Yes
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If your assessments and dues were overdue when you paid them and if the homeowners association has the right to assess overdue fines then the answer is yes.
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Your answer depends on many variables including:What is the extent of the damage?Who caused the damage?What insurance carried by the association is invoked based on the damage?What is the deductible for the category of damage?Best practices dictate that the damage be reported to the appropriate authorities -- criminal, if necessary, and then to turn the repair and its cost over to their master insurance policy carrier.If no insurance covers the damage, the board may be required to assess additional monies from owners in proportion to their allocated interest in the common area ownership to pay for repairs.
Yes. It's called a special assessment, which each unit owner is required to pay.