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You can read your governing documents to be reminded of your obligation to pay your monthly assessments.

As well, you can find the process that the board follows in order to collect this debt from you.


It may include ultimately selling your unit in order to satisfy the debt, and may include filing a lien on your personal property, including your car.

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Yes.

Read your governing documents and understand your obligation to pay your monthly assessments.


There, as well, you'll find the process that the board is required to follow to collect this debt that you owe.


When you ignore letters, filing a lien may be the next step. One of the final steps may be to sell your condominium in order to recover the monies that you owe.

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Yes. The association can file a lien on your unit's title, which clouds it and which shows up on your credit rating.

Read your governing documents to remind yourself of your contract with the association to pay your assessments, which the association uses to pay the expenses of operating the community.

Further, understand that a lien may not be the final step that the association can take to collect this debt that you owe; the association may be able to foreclose on your property and sell it to retire the debt.

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Yes.

Read your governing documents to confirm that any monies you own the association, whether they be in the form of a regular assessment, special assessment or fine, constitute a 'statutory lien' on your property.

You agreed to this process when you purchased your unit.

The final action the association can take -- after other notification procedures -- is to file a formal lien with the local court, so that officially, your title is clouded based on your failure to pay.

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12y ago

Short answer: yes.

Longer answer: If you are unable to keep up with paying your assessments, it's always a good idea to relay this information to your association management company and work out a payment plan.

Working out a payment plan demonstrates your good intentions to pay what you owe. Ignoring attempts to collect what you owe demonstrates your willingness to require that your neighbors pay your bills.

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A lien can only be filed after due process of law has been followed. If there is no money owed to the plaintiff, a lien against any of the defendant's property would not be valid.

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The association must sue you in court and obtain a judgment lien. It can use the judgment lien to take any property to pay the amount of the lien.

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