If enacted, H.B. 4015 would make
significant and extremely problematic changes to the Michigan Condominium Act,
including:
Make
it more difficult to approve budgets by requiring co-owner approval. This
is bad for property values and would lead to increased lawsuits against
condominiums if we do not have the financial ability to provide services
required.
Threaten
associations lifeblood by allowing co-owners to withhold
assessments. This would create a vicious cycle that would ultimately
bankrupt your community.
Create
a bureaucratic mess by reviving a governmental administrator to sue
Condominium Associations and Volunteer Directors. This would create a
huge burden on taxpayers to pay for new administrative costs and greatly
increase legal expenses of every condominium.
The full text of HB 4015 can be
found at http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2017-2018/billintroduced/House/pdf/2017-HIB-4015.pdf.
Click here to contact your state representative and let them
know that you oppose HB 4015, or
you can call Del. Marcus Simon at (571) 327-0053.
Please consider donating to CAI’s Michigan Legislative
Action Committee. While all donation levels will be accepted, a donation
of as little as a dollar a day, or $365 for the year, from every condominium
association would greatly increase the ability of the MI-LAC to advocate on
behalf of community associations. Checks can be made out to the MI-LAC
and sent to Vicki Hancock at 2080 W US Highway 12, Clinton, Michigan 49236-9631
or go to www.caionline.org/LACdonate.