2014 Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors $7,500 Association Reserves of WA Barker Martin, P.S.

Charter Construction CiraConnect

Community Association Underwriters Condominium Law Group PLLC EMB Management Services, Inc., AAMC HUB International NW J2 Building Consultants

Law Offices of James L. Strichartz Rafel Law Group, PLLC Ruff Construction

RW Anderson Services

Wilkinson v. Chiwawa Communities Association, 180 Wn. 2d 241 (2014):

The developer is long gone but its ghost still haunts the community. The Washington State Supreme Court held that a majority of owners may not adopt a covenant that restricts vacation rentals when the developer drafted covenants that restrict the size of rental signs. The court concluded that, because the covenants restrict the size of rental signs, the developer’s general plan of development included an owner’s right to enter into short-term leases with vacationers.

In each of these cases the courts are struggling to strike the right balance between an individual owner’s free use of land and an association’s authority to regulate the use of that land. Many see these cases protecting an individual’s free use of land at the expense of the community’s ability to reasonably maintain and operate the property. For those who live and volunteer in communities, the cases are disconcerting. Where a community does not have sufficient support to maintain shared improvements, we expect that community’s infrastructure and property values to decline. These three cases, Center Point and Sudden Valley in particular, are also likely to have the unintended effect of restricting the availability of financing home loans.

The cases run contrary to CAI’s public policies. CAI believes in accurate balanced budgets including accurate long-term projections for capital expenses. It believes in maintaining the entire property, including commonly shared improvements, and opposes the enactment of overreaching laws that limit the effective collection of assessments to maintain and operate the property. CAI promotes the availability of adequate financing for community association housing, and opposes legislative or judicial actions that limit or restrict the ability and rights of community associations to maintain control over association common property.

No LAC update would be complete without thanking its volunteers and people instrumental to its success. We would like to specifically thank Jeremy Stilwell and Michael Brandt who, after several years, are stepping down as co-chairs of the LAC.

ServPro of Edmonds & Lynnwood Superior Cleaning & Restoration

Platinum Sponsors $5,000 Alliance Association Bank Diamond Roofing

Fischer Plumbing & Restoration Foundation Bank

Galluzzo Insurance Agency, Inc. McLeod Construction

Pacific Building Envelope, Inc.

Pacific Engineering Technologies Reserve Consultants

Ryan, Swanson & Cleveland, PLLC Signature Landscape Sterling Group DKI Yalnes, Inc.

Yates, Wood & McDonald

Gold Sponsors $3,500 Allana Buick & Bers Amento Group

CDK Construction Services CEDCORE, LLC Clannadh, Inc.

The Copeland Group, LLC Leahy McLean Fjelstad Morris Management, Inc., AAMC Multi-M Construction

Pody & McDonald, PLLC PRIME

Schwindt & Co., CPA Union Bank HOA Services

Silver Sponsors $2,500 Bell-Anderson & Associates CertaPro Painters The Coe Law Group

David Bach & Associates

Ernest Jonson & Company, P.S. GFK Management, Inc., AAMC Malarkey Roofing Products McBride Construction Mutual of Omaha Bank Tatley-Grund, Inc.

Bronze Sponsors $1,500 Association Capital Bank Ball Janik, LLP

Cagianut & Company, CPA CleanPros

Executive Coating & Contracting Har-Bro

Kilburn Architects, LLC Maintco, Inc.

Northwest Landscape Service The Partners Group

Precision Door Service RDH Building Sciences SIR Construction

Stein, Flanagan, Sudweeks & Houser Superior Maintenance Solutions Washington Water Damage

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