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  <title><![CDATA[Mid-Atlantic Condo & HOA News from CAN]]></title>
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     <title>VA: Home crisis hampers HOAs</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Homeowners' associations got lost somewhere in the shuffle of the home mortgage lending crisis. No one knows that better than Deby Wine, the president of the Brandy Station Homeowners Association.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:06:05 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/local/article/home_crisis_hampers_hoas/22151/</link>
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     <title>VA: Associations Suffer as Homeowners Do</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Shirley McCoy stopped paying her homeowners association fee six months ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:03:33 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100400012.html</link>
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     <title>MD: Ruling in discrimination case due early next month</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A discrimination case against an Upper Marlboro retirement community and its management company continues nearly a year after the state government started investigating complaints from two of its residents.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:52:25 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/10022008/uppenew183132_32474.shtml</link>
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     <title>VA: Neighborhood Cat Fight</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Branch's Trace homeowners association has banned all cats from going outside unless their photos are on file. If the rules are broken, the pet owner could be fined.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:50:16 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.wtvr.com/Global/story.asp?S=9100729</link>
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     <title>PA: Star-spangled banner may wave - Woman can keep flags outside Moon condo</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Robinson Township woman who had been sued over her patriotic display can keep small American flags outside her condominium based on an out-of-court settlement reached Monday morning.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:05:59 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.timesonline.com/articles/2008/09/29/news/doc48e18be0cc279614064884.txt</link>
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     <title>PA: Local Veteran Expected At Hearing For Flag Flap</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A local veteran who got into trouble for displaying American flags in her yard at her condominium is expected to attend a hearing this morning.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:37:34 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://kdka.com/local/American.flag.flap.2.827888.html</link>
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     <title>PA: Bethel rethinks sports equipment policies</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The township requested it be named as insured on the Homeowner's Association policy as protection against any possible legal action that would result from injury to a child.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:07:19 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.delcotimes.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20138608&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=18171&rfi=6]]></link>
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     <title>MD: County sues Glenwood developer over septic system</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Howard County officials filed a lawsuit this month against the developers of an upscale community in Glenwood for failing to alert buyers about the community's nonfunctioning septic system.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:55:51 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.explorehoward.com/news/11691/county-sues-glenwood-developer-over-septic-system/</link>
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     <title>VA: Fire at Virginia Beach condo displaces 10 people</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A fire in a Virginia Beach condominium complex early this morning has displaced four families.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:26:53 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-now-vbfire.s24,0,5006932.story</link>
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     <title>NJ: Residents fault city response at condo</title>
     <description><![CDATA[An Orange municipal task force has cracked down on what it describes as unabated code and fire violations at a condominium complex in the city, and set a Friday deadline to correct problems or face fines.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:51:24 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/essex/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1222143915262500.xml&coll=1]]></link>
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     <title>MD: Roads dispute causing a heap of trouble</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Town of Berlin garbage trucks have been making an extra pick-up at the corner of Ann Court and Esham Avenue on their Tuesday morning route. For the past two weeks trash from the 49 houses of Franklin Knoll has been left there at the town council's suggestion after they declined to extend public garbage collection into the nearly completed subdivision.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:38:36 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080918/WCT01/809180353</link>
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     <title>MD: Not again in my backyard</title>
     <description><![CDATA[English, a neighborhood resident of 10 years, said he is unsure what the Emerald Farm HOA can do - "this isn't like someone who doesn't cut their grass" - but plans on keeping the neighborhood vigilant.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:13:49 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/09182008/frednew155418_32482.shtml</link>
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     <title>MD: County sues 'Villas' developers</title>
     <description><![CDATA[But a lawsuit filed by the county government claims that the developers and builders of the Villas at Cattail Creek misled homebuyers about many aspects of the project.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:01:30 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/realestate/bal-ho.cattail18sep18,0,1244397.story</link>
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     <title>MD: Condo rule changes could block owners from flying flag from balcony</title>
     <description><![CDATA[All Deborah Ross wants to do is fly an American flag from her Fairwinds condominium in Annapolis. But a potential rule change by her association may restrict where she can put it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:31:15 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2008/09_17-48/CAN</link>
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     <title>PA: Toby man sued by community board for character defamation</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Tobyhanna man with a history of openly criticizing governing board members in his development and getting into trouble with the law now finds himself being sued for character defamation by the board members he has called out.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:15:04 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080917/NEWS/809170328</link>
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     <title>PA: Irked condo owner re-signed to a fight</title>
     <description><![CDATA[There's a good chance that Bob Mattingly won't recoup the $105,000 he says he lost on his condo's property value, but he's sure going to complain about it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:54:03 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20080917_Irked_condo_owner_re-signed_to_a_fight.html</link>
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     <title>PA: Pigeons bring home a flock of problems</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The condominium association told Tomaras in May that he couldn’t have the birds on the porch. He moved the coop to a wooded common area a few yards from his house and painted it brown so it would blend in with its surroundings]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:06:03 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-09142008-1590606.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Captain's Cove investors run aground</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Developers for Captain's Cove, a residential development just south of the Worcester County border, have filed for bankruptcy protection after defaulting on about $18 million in loans.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:41:20 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080911/WCT01/809110314</link>
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     <title>PA: Residents flood Caernarvon meeting</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A group of people representing those living in Valley Ponds Community Association came to talk about the flooding of their homes when it rains.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:17:18 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20117985&BRD=2149&PAG=461&dept_id=365715&rfi=6]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Broadlands HOA Board Gets Behind Hospital</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Broadlands Regional Medical Center got another boost Tuesday evening when the Broadlands Homeowners' Association Board of Directors voted to support the special exception application as it makes its way through county review.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:08:04 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.leesburg2day.com/articles/2008/09/10/news/fp415hoa091008.txt</link>
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     <title>NJ: Governor signs community age restriction legislation into law</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Senate Bill 88/Assembly Bill 305, which is intended to prevent the improper sale or transfer of property to those who do not meet the age requirements of a senior community, was signed into law yesterday by Governor Jon Corzine]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:36:25 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.njlawblog.com/2008/09/articles/community-associations/governor-signs-community-age-restriction-legislation-into-law/</link>
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     <title>NJ: Dam Dilemma: Who Mows the Lake?</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Residents of a campground here are angry that their ability to refer to their homes as "lakefront" condominiums is slowly washing away.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:02:40 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.capemaycountyherald.com/article/34773-dam-dilemma-who-mows-lake</link>
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     <title>MD: Maryland Firefighters Make Third Floor Rescue</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Prince Georges County Firefighter/Medics from the Marlow Heights area were alerted to a fire in a 3-story condominium]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:37:46 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.firefightingnews.com/article-US.cfm?articleID=54280</link>
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     <title>PA: Arbors residents push swing set argument</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The township continues to define large swing sets as "accessory structures," and a group of residents continues to oppose the regulations that would result]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:37:17 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.delcotimes.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20110175&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=662709&rfi=6]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Bow Hunting Decision Upheld</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Reston Association has been ordered to pay approximately $58,000 to the Archery Trade Association after the Virginia Supreme Court refused to hear the homeowner association’s appeal regarding a bow hunting decision reached at a Fairfax County court last December.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:14:37 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=319058&paper=71&cat=104]]></link>
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     <title>NJ: Paying the dam piper</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Thanks to a special assessment needed to pay off a $1.25 million dam restoration loan, Shongum Lake Property Owners’ Association homeowners will be digging a little deeper into their pockets come November.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:02:13 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.recordernewspapers.com/articles/2008/08/29/randolph_reporter/news/doc48b714a2b71bf612019713.txt</link>
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     <title>NJ: Cops say praying ritual sparked North Brunswick condominium fire</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A resident's praying ritual may have led to a fire that gutted most of a 24-unit condominium building Tuesday, officials said]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:00:59 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080827/NEWS/80827032</link>
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     <title>MD: Poignant reminder flies in the face of the rules</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The dispute is more about the kinds of technical dilemmas often faced by condominium associations rather than a fight over the nation's flag and the patriotism it symbolizes. Ringgold believes that she is defending her legally guaranteed right to display the flag while showing devotion to her husband.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:31:01 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-ho.flag28aug28,0,7925423.story</link>
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     <title>VA: Judge tosses out Lake Holiday lawsuit</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Lake Holiday Country Club Inc. qualifies as a property owners association under Virginia law, Frederick County Circuit Court Judge John R. Prosser ruled Tuesday in dismissing a lawsuit brought by a small group of lot owners within the gated lakefront community.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:44:36 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.nvdaily.com/business/292486131270113.bsp</link>
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     <title>2 dozen families displaced after blaze engulfs North Brunswick condo complex</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two dozen families have been at least temporarily displaced after a fire that engulfed a condominium building Tuesday morning, according to an official from the local homeowners' association.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:12:36 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080826/NEWS/80826023</link>
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     <title>VA: Fire destroys condos in Bedford Co</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A fire early Saturday morning destroyed four condominium homes and damaged two more in Bedford County.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:45:15 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.roanoke.com/news/sml/wb/148714</link>
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     <title>MD: Lawmaker intervenes in condo repair case</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Del. Robert Costa, R-Deale, told 30 condominium owners living in Heritage Harbour not to sign a deal with the state, saying the order to make their homes wheelchair accessible may not be legal.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:27:32 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2008/08_26-13/TOP</link>
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     <title>NJ: W. Windsor condo fire damages 12 units</title>
     <description><![CDATA[An early-morning fire yesterday raged through a building in the Canal Pointe development off Route 1 yesterday, damaging 12 apartments.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:52:26 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-14/121972354182830.xml&coll=5]]></link>
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     <title>PA: Poverty, poor planning and neglect plague two Pocono communities</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two private communities targeted for help in a county grant proposal could sure use it, residents say.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:00:47 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080824/NEWS/808240343</link>
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     <title>NJ: Hamilton condos adding surveillance cameras</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A local condominium complex where a woman was shot to death more than a year ago is getting $140,000 worth of surveillance equipment along its main road.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:35:30 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/179/story/236341.html</link>
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     <title>MD: Condos must accommodate wheelchairs</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Maryland Human Relations Commission has directed 30 condominium owners in a Heritage Harbour complex to spend thousands of dollars to renovate their private homes to accommodate wheelchairs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:40:17 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2008/08_21-41/TOP</link>
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     <title>MD: Ocean Pines Employee Charged With Felony Theft (scroll to 4th story)</title>
     <description><![CDATA[An Ocean Pines man was arrested on felony theft charges this week after an internal financial audit conducted by the Ocean Pines Association (OPA) revealed he allegedly absconded with over $2,000 from the community’s Beach Club where he worked as a part-time employee]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:37:18 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.mdcoastdispatch.com/article.php?cid=23&id=4111]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Faust in the 'burbs</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The St. George's Estates HOA has issued a cease-and-desist order to a couple who have placed political-campaign signs in their front garden.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:47:30 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/082008/08202008/403829</link>
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     <title>MD: Some Perry Hall Condo Owners Demand Lightning Rods  (video)</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Lightning struck twice at one Perry Hall condominium complex and dozens living there say enough is enough.  Community leaders in the Baltimore County town are calling for action a week after a dozen condos were destroyed.  Dennis Edwards has more on the plan some say may prevent a third fire.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:10:23 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://wjz.com/local/lightning.condominium.complex.2.799015.html</link>
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     <title>NJ: Couple says new housing in Perth Amboy has flaws</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Since May 2007 when the couple moved in, they have called several contractors and paid for an estimated $20,000 in repairs to their three-bedroom home, many of which they believe are the result of poor workmanship by the developer.  "They (the builder) doesn't follow through on the punch list,' Williams said.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:14:36 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080818/NEWS/808180317</link>
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     <title>PA: Residents frustrated as developers of planned community abandon project</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Today, just 11 of the 42 planned condominiums have been built on land formerly owned by Royer Foundry. Internal squabbles and piles of debt halted the project, subjecting the developers to lawsuits, liens and other legal actions from unpaid contractors, disgruntled homeowners and impatient investors.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:55:04 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.citizensvoice.com/articles/2008/08/17/news/doc48a8828474ced699052840.txt</link>
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     <title>MD: Taking the lawn into their own hands</title>
     <description><![CDATA[HOAs depend more on city, residents to clean yards of foreclosed houses]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:30:32 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyID=78927</link>
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     <title>VA: HOA: SIGNS MUST GO campaign signs</title>
     <description><![CDATA[But it seems the HOA is within its right to regulate the signs. State law prohibits localities from banning the display of political campaign signs on private property. However, the law does not apply to HOAs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:39:27 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/082008/08162008/402401</link>
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     <title>MD: Lightning strikes again, causing fire at condo complex</title>
     <description><![CDATA[For the second time in two years, lightning struck a Perry Hall condominium complex, causing a fire last night that forced several residents from their homes, a spokesman for the county Fire Department said.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:47:25 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/realestate/bal-md.co.fire15aug15,0,96873.story</link>
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     <title>PA: Conshohocken condo fire victims waited, worried</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Today, residents displaced from the Riverwalk at Millennium camped at the Spring Mill Fire Company in Conshohocken, weeping on each other's shoulders, making frantic arrangements via cell phone, walking dogs, and eating donated pizza.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:04:31 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/news_breaking/20080813_Conshohocken_condo_fire_victims_waited__worried.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Lake Holiday lawsuit requests not to declare property owner’s association</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Lake Holiday Country Club Inc. filed additional paperwork Friday, requesting a declaration that the organization is not a property owners’ association.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:54:26 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.winchesterstar.com/showarticle_new.php?sID=6&foldername=20080812&file=Lake%20Holiday%20_article.html]]></link>
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     <title>PA: TLPOA hears response from commission</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Treasure Lake resident Richard Anderson presented information to the Treasure Lake Property Owners Board of Directors recently concerning correspondence from the Local Government Commission about Treasure Lake's initiative to become a borough.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:13:44 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.leader-vindicator.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19902195&BRD=2758&PAG=461&dept_id=572984&rfi=6]]></link>
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     <title>MD: Homeowners oust condo board, seek legal help</title>
     <description><![CDATA[More than 50 residents voted to remove the Frenchman's Creek condominium board of directors, claiming the group was inaccessible, handled maintenance poorly and filed bogus liens on condominium accounts.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:49:44 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/08072008/landnew184754_32461.shtml</link>
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     <title>DE: Entire community sues for repairs</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Other owners had repairs done to stop the leaks, but last year an engineering study concluded that most houses in the 70-unit neighborhood had sustained serious water damage that threatened the structure of the buildings. The tab to replace roofs, siding, drywall and other affected items was estimated at $4.3 million]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:44:41 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080806/DW01/80806016/-1/DW</link>
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     <title>MD: Water fee smacks HOAs in the wallet</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Eight homeowners associations in Montgomery Village - as well as the Montgomery Village Foundation - are appealing a new county fee for water quality protection that in some cases jumped more than 600 percent over the year before.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:32:30 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/08062008/damanew222531_32458.shtml</link>
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     <title>VA: Southern Walk residents still waiting for changes</title>
     <description><![CDATA[It's been more than a year since Southern Walk residents heard several promises of good things to come. Residents were told they would gain control over the homeowners association in 2008, and they also hoped for solutions to grievances with their cable provider. Now, they're wondering if those promises will ever come to fruition.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:27:13 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.loudountimes.com/news/2008/aug/06/southern-walk-residents-still-waiting-changes/</link>
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     <title>NJ: Motel owners group in Wildwoods sues state to make condo rentals pay same ta</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Condo owners who rent their properties should pay the same taxes hotel and motel owners pay, according to the Greater Wildwood Hotel and Motel Association.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:12:45 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/181/story/219413.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Developer’s change of heart prompts lawsuit</title>
     <description><![CDATA[More than 100 people have sued the developer of their Frederick County community for changing plans after they moved in.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:57:20 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.winchesterstar.com/showarticle_new.php?sID=6&foldername=20080731&file=developer_article.html]]></link>
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     <title>NJ: In High-Rise Fire, Staying Put May Be Your Best Bet</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Most people wouldn't think twice about attempting to flee a fire. Whether they live in a cottage or a high-rise, their instinct is the same: escape. But when it comes to high-rise fires, instinct could be a killer. Since most high-rises are built to contain flames at their origin, the best advice is to stay put as long as the fire or smoke is not in your apartment, said Acting Chief Tom Freeman of the Hackensack Fire Department.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:52:50 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.firefightingnews.com/article-US.cfm?articleID=52214</link>
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     <title>VA: New law may raise HOA fees statewide</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new state law may affect homeowners who live in neighborhoods governed by homeowners associations, condominium associations, cooperative associations and like entities.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:24:42 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/news/2008/jul/29/new-law-may-raise-hoa-fees-statewide/</link>
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     <title>NJ: Clinton condo fire deemed suspicious</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The condominium fire that injured a Clinton Township man is being investigated as a suspicious blaze, officials said today.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:00:37 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/officials_deem_clinton_condo_f.html</link>
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     <title>MD: Condominium Blaze Injures Firefighter</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A fire at a Howard County condominium complex left one firefighter injured.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:53:58 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.wbaltv.com/news/17006259/detail.html</link>
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     <title>PA: Developer Accused Of Not Paying Contractors  (Video)</title>
     <description><![CDATA[At least a dozen people say they are out thousands of dollars through no fault of their own and the man that owes them the cash appears to be on the run.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:43:11 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://kdka.com/kdkainvestigators/Michael.Peretto.Links.2.780395.html</link>
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     <title>PA: Dispute over waterline ownership, maintenance in South Abington</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Officials of a South Abington Township condominium development are threatening to shut off water to a neighboring senior citizen apartment complex amid a dispute over a waterline that serves both.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:36:22 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.scrantontimes.com/articles/2008/07/23/news/sc_times_trib.20080723.a.pg4.tt23waterline_s1.1828132_loc.txt</link>
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     <title>VA: Condo fire may have been started by lightning</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A four-unit condominium in Williamsburg was badly damaged last night by a fire that may have been started by a lightning strike.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:34:54 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-now-wburgfire.j23,0,5238203.story</link>
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     <title>VA: Lake Holiday returns to court Judge’s ruling leaves both sides pleased</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A group of property owners, led by lead plaintiff Mildred B. Bemis of Oakton, is suing the Lake Holiday Country Club, its board of directors, and some individual property owners for what the plaintiffs believe are unfair assessments on properties.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:01:18 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.winchesterstar.com/showarticle_new.php?sID=6&foldername=20080719&file=lake_article.html]]></link>
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     <title>NJ: Laurel Lake residents balk at 'fair share'</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Residents of Laurel Lake concerned over the $50 "fair share" assessment bill the Laurel Lake Property Owners Association sent out last year will meet once again tonight to reaffirm they will not pay.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:59:02 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.nj.com/news/bridgeton/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1216797031231930.xml&coll=10]]></link>
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     <title>MD: Delinquent dues landing more homeowners in court</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Wednesdays have unofficially become ‘‘HOA day" at Montgomery County District Court, the day each week that homeowners associations are scheduled in number for proceedings aimed at collecting unpaid dues from their members.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:55:21 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/072308/wheanew201509_32364.shtml</link>
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     <title>VA: Roads an issue inside Kingsmill</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Precisely how the InBev deal will affect Kingsmill on the James remains unclear, but the options are not pleasant.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:17:45 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.vagazette.com/news/local/va-news4_071608jul16,0,1204785.story</link>
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     <title>MD: Residents point out condo code violations</title>
     <description><![CDATA[More than 50 residents walked the streets through the Frenchman’s Creek Condominiums in New Carrollton on July 10, giving County Councilman Eric Olson (D-Dist. 3) of College Park and elected city officials a close-up view of the buildings’ run-down conditions.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:16:42 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/071708/landnew180130_32356.shtml</link>
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     <title>PA: Women find peace and quiet hard to find, no help from HOA</title>
     <description><![CDATA[They did see the resulting article online and Segal called to say things were not as rosy as Laurel Homeowners Association chairman David Spector indicated.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:33:46 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=98768</link>
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     <title>MD: Court date set in embezzling case</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A court date has been set for the Ocean Pines Association employee accused of stealing nearly $1,200 from the Compliance, Permits and Inspections office.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:21:25 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080712/NEWS01/807120324/1002</link>
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     <title>VA: Judge forces sale of HOA-management group</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Koger, whose company successfully managed hundreds of homeowners associations in the state and dozens in the Fredericksburg area for decades, remains embroiled in bankruptcy proceedings after millions of dollars went missing.   A judge ordered the sale of the company. It was auctioned last month. Koger also voluntarily signed a consent order that revokes his real estate license, required to operate such a business.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:18:29 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/072008/07102008/392658</link>
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     <title>DE: No injuries reported in condo fire</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A strong thunderstorm in the Rehoboth Beach area Tuesday evening caused a electrical fire in The Star of the Sea Condominium on Laurel St. and the Boardwalk, emergency officials said.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:28:09 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080709/NEWS01/80709017/1002</link>
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     <title>VA: Officials investigate fish kill on Suffolk lake</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Dennis McBride is chairman of the lake and dam committee in the homeowner's association. He says residents around the private lake awoke Saturday to a blanket of dead fish.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:09:49 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_local_070808_officials_investigate_suff_fish.3533c6c1.html</link>
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     <title>DC: Government Settles Suit With Developer for $2 Million</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The District government has agreed to pay $2 million to developer Herbert S. Miller to end two years of legal fighting after the city dropped his plan to build two condominium towers next to the Washington Nationals' ballpark.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:22:25 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702330.html</link>
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     <title>MD: Election raises concerns</title>
     <description><![CDATA[And it is raising concerns that an out-of-state company - not the average homeowner - will soon have control of a 4,700-member homeowners' association, its multibillion-dollar budget, taxes and a score of parks, ball fields and swimming pools in an upscale west county neighborhood.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:18:19 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2008/07_07-05/TOP</link>
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     <title>MD: Homeowners fight for right to dry laundry outside</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Wei Wang also lives in Montgomery County and prefers to dry her laundry outside. She worries, too, about the consequences.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:51:35 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.examiner.com/a-1474744~Homeowners_fight_for_right_to_dry_laundry_outside.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Supervisors seek to collect assessments on lots at Star Fort</title>
     <description><![CDATA["That occurred for a while but there was no consistent effort to collect the assessments for the benefit of Star Fort and, subsequently the corporate existence of ... the Star Fort property owners association was terminated by the Virginia State Corporation Commission," Mitchell said.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:42:26 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.nvdaily.com/news/325232092740357.bsp</link>
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     <title>PA: Condo sues veteran over her flags</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Robinson Township woman who has served in the Air Force and Pennsylvania Air National Guard for a combined 25 years has been sued for placing small American flags outside her condo.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:09:37 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.timesonline.com/articles/2008/07/02/news/doc486c3136c9d44027765168.txt</link>
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     <title>VA: Valley feud: Neighbors sue neighbors under RICO</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Road maintenance is one of those basic chores of a homeowners association that would seem to draw residents together for the community good. It hasn’t quite worked out that way in Dogwood Valley]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:55:14 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/02/valley-feud-neighbors-sue-neighbors-under-rico/</link>
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     <title>MD: Accessibility complaint goes before judge</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two Upper Marlboro residents with disabilities filed discrimination complaints against their condominium’s board of directors and management company, saying they were denied keys to their building’s side doors, which added a daily hardship to their lives]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:26:03 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/070308/uppenew174553_32358.shtml</link>
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     <title>DC: Judge tosses defamation lawsuit filed by developer against couple</title>
     <description><![CDATA[An Arlington County judge has tossed out a luxury D.C. developer’s defamation and conspiracy claims against a couple who sought to pull out of a $1 million condo purchase in October.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:24:50 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.examiner.com/a-1465323~Judge_tosses_defamation_lawsuit_filed_by_developer_against_couple.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Law could help condo residents resolve disputes</title>
     <description><![CDATA[When disagreements between condominium owners and associations arise, there is little residents can do aside from litigation. But a new law that takes effect July 1 could change that.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:25:16 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-06-29-0062.html</link>
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     <title>DC: A Garden Haven With a Storied Past</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Situated on 32 carefully landscaped acres just off Wisconsin Avenue NW in busy Tenleytown, the McLean Gardens condominium complex is lovely all year, but certain seasons highlight its best qualities.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:18:55 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062701656.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Prospects dim for property owners’ association bill</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Despite approval by the state Senate this week, a bill regarding the Virginia Property Owners Association Act likely will die a silent death during the special General Assembly session on transportation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:51:48 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.winchesterstar.com/article_details.php?ArticleID=7659</link>
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     <title>VA: No Decision in Neighborhood Court Battle</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The court battle between a neighborhood association and some homeowners has dissolved into a legal mess. There's no decision yet in the Dogwood Valley Subdivision case.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:13:08 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=8555253&nav=menu496_2_3]]></link>
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     <title>MD: Cameron Grove condo officials charged with housing discrimination</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The leadership of a condominium in Cameron Grove and its management company have been charged with housing discrimination following complaints by two disabled owners]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:59:35 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/062608/uppenew164941_32357.shtml</link>
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     <title>VA: Neighbors Scorn Those Who Don't Clean Up After Pets</title>
     <description><![CDATA[One complaint often brought up by residents in planned communities is the unwillingness of some homeowners to clean up after their pets.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:16:51 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062003486.html</link>
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     <title>PA: Philly condo owners see red over skyscraper signs</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A corporation's plan to put its name up in red lights on a landmark downtown skyscraper is generating howls of protest from luxury condo owners who have only recently begun moving into the building.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:22:00 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jSctEE4aUP-CgxpOXxrUdFDGqdvQD91F9GG01</link>
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     <title>VA: When Condo Wars Heat Up, Common Sense Can Evaporate</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Let me tell you a story about a game of hardball played over a hot, summery weekend. It happened not at Nationals Park but in a well-kept condominium complex in Reston just a few weeks ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:32:55 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062100091.html</link>
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     <title>NJ: Condo group discusses water pollution, road</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Several topics were discussed last week at the city Coalition of Condominium Associations meeting, including updates of the Save Ocean Avenue Committee and water pollution in the northern area of the city.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:27:09 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://atlanticville.gmnews.com/news/2008/0619/Front_page/018.html</link>
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     <title>MD: The Inalienable Right to Dry</title>
     <description><![CDATA["I would like to see the State of Maryland pass a law that forbids HOAs from preventing people from hanging laundry outside as soon as possible,” Wang said. “It is long overdue. It's time that the state recognized something that should be a matter of common sense."]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:59:54 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/art_life/display_features.htm?StoryID=76497</link>
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     <title>VA: Property Owners Association Act webcast and summary</title>
     <description><![CDATA[On Friday, June 20 at 10 a.m., VAR’s special counsel Lem Marshall will host an interactive webcast describing the implications of HB 516, which becomes effective on July 1.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:45:56 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://varbuzz.com/property-owners-association-act-webcast-and-summary/</link>
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     <title>NJ: Jackson condo fire called accidental</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Investigators determined that a breeze, a balcony, a plastic chair, reading material and a lit cigarette in a briefly unattended ashtray were factors that led to a fire which displaced eight families Friday at the Willow Point condominium complex off East Commodore Boulevard.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:01:07 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080616/NEWS/80616023</link>
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     <title>VA: Into the Woods, Thanks to High-Rise Residents</title>
     <description><![CDATA[For a decade, the folks who live at Marina Towers condominiums in Alexandria have been raising money to send kids to Camp Moss Hollow--nearly $50,000 over the past 10 years, in fact]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:41:26 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061203682.html</link>
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     <title>NJ: State to decide if senior condo complex violated disabled rights</title>
     <description><![CDATA[At the couple's request, the Condominium Association of Covered Bridge built a ramp to help residents access the lot in 2006. But that ramp was later removed, because it was too steep and violated township codes, and it was never replaced.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:29:08 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080613/NEWS01/806130451/1004</link>
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     <title>DE: Salt Pond HOA considers golf course purchase</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Residents of the Salt Pond community, just outside Bethany Beach, have been in the center of booming development in the area recently and are now seeking to reduce its impact on their way of life.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:10:36 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.coastalpoint.com/content/salt_pond_hoa_considers_golf_course_purchase</link>
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     <title>NJ: Next real estate headache: The grandma condo?</title>
     <description><![CDATA[With many longtime residents sitting on gold mines in the form of old three-family brownstones or other valuable pieces of real estate, there is often a mint to be made in going condo.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:04:46 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2008/06/next_real_estate_headache_the.html</link>
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     <title>NJ: Still waiting</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Horizons at Woodlake Greens In Lakewood certainly looks different then it did a year ago. Last year, the community's club house wasn't built, stalled by the bankruptcy of Kara Homes, the one-time high-flying builder. There were drainage issues and prospective home buyers wondered when, if ever, they would get into their uncompleted homes.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:54:20 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080608/BUSINESS/806080345/1003</link>
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     <title>PA: Judge rules against heirs of Hamlet developers</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A now deceased developer has lost an 18-year battle to own and manage a private home development's roads and amenities in a ruling that grants ownership to a property owners association free and clear of all liens and taxes.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:41:45 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080606/NEWS/806060359</link>
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     <title>MD: Court Turns Maryland Condo Insurance Upside Down</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A dispute over $6,400 in damage to a Maryland townhouse led to an unexpected court decision that has reversed 26 years of standard industry practice, and left insurers, agents, lawmakers and condominium associations unclear as to who pays when individual units in a complex are damaged.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:21:10 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2008/06/03/90588.htm</link>
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     <title>VA: Lawsuit on lack of services could bankrupt Lake Holiday</title>
     <description><![CDATA[If the plaintiffs win their lawsuit, Lake Holiday may go bankrupt — because the gated community in northern Frederick County would no longer be able to collect assessments on its 2,700 residential lots.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:30:50 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.winchesterstar.com/article_details.php?ArticleID=7145</link>
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     <title>VA: Algae muddles popular lake</title>
     <description><![CDATA[But the last few springs, a blight in the form of excessive green algae has covered huge stretches of water, floating back and forth to either end depending on the wind conditions. The homeowners'  association brought up the issue to city council last summer before the city responded with a few cleanups, including one this spring.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:55:36 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/local/article/algae_muddles_popular_lake/16490/</link>
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     <title>MD: As Disputes Escalate, So Can the Legal Bills</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Beware the homeowners association squabble that escalates. Back-fence grousing over parking restrictions, architectural rules or allegations of cronyism can grow into civil war, and homeowners -- the source of all money in the association -- can end up paying big legal bills, no matter which side wins.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:14:03 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/31/AR2008053100255.html</link>
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     <title>PA: Homeowners and HOAs -  Finding a balance</title>
     <description><![CDATA[They say good fences make good neighbors, but depending on where you live, you may not be permitted to have one - or fly a decorative flag, for that matter.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:54:06 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=93894</link>
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     <title>VA: Course dispute still in rough</title>
     <description><![CDATA[For two decades, the Villages of Kiln Creek has been a hallmark of golf-centric living on the Peninsula. But in this, the 20th anniversary year, bitter infighting between residents and the owner of the on-site Kiln Creek Golf Club and Resort has marred their relationship to its core.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 15:36:12 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_kilncreek_0524may24,0,7100946.story</link>
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     <title>PA: West Deer condo lawsuit settlement may be near</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A settlement may be forthcoming in the case of West Deer Township residents whose condominiums were threatened with a sheriff's sale due to a legal battle between two companies involved in building them.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 14:47:50 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_569156.html</link>
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     <title>MD: Homeowner's Associations Struggling With Mortgage Meltdown (Video)</title>
     <description><![CDATA[As real estate woes continue to challenge the nation's economy, homeowners in the Four State region are also contending with the frustration of maintaining their property value.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 10:10:34 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://your4state.com/content/fulltext/?cid=16903</link>
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     <title>NJ: Playground in Franklin Square opens</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Franklin Square Condominium Association board of trustees along with approximately 30 residents of the community and Mayor Thomas Vahalla attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new playground on May 13.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 21:20:16 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://ems.gmnews.com/news/2008/0521/front_page/004.html</link>
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     <title>PA: Resolution May Come For West Deer Condo Owners</title>
     <description><![CDATA[They paid their mortgages and their taxes, but dozens of condo owners in West Deer were still threatened with losing their homes to sheriff sale because their developer didn't pay his bills.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 09:17:43 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://kdka.com/kdkainvestigators/West.Deer.condos.2.728902.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Bromptons at Cherrydale condos deemed a 'blight' by Arlington planners</title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the area's most visible symbols of the sagging condominium market may soon disappear]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:14:24 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/05/19/story5.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Fairfax County communities question flood protection plan</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The towers’ condominium association has not taken an official position on the matter, said association President Jim Shanahan, but “at first blush it appears there would be some negative consequences” in adopting the Corps’ top recommendations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 21:06:39 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.examiner.com/a-1381962~Fairfax_County_communities_question_flood_protection_plan.html</link>
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     <title>DC: The Condo Owner's Dilemma</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Now Moss, 33, wants to find a tenant for her condo while she waits out the economy. But the condominium association allows only 20 percent of the units to be leased at once, so Moss is on a waiting list. If she tries to rent the unit without permission, she could face a $500-a-month fine.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 10:30:18 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050201722.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Lake Anne Condos File Lawsuit Against Dominion</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Lake Anne of Reston Condominium Association filed a negligence lawsuit against Dominion Virginia Power in late February. The case is a result of "Dominion's negligent destruction of one of the Association's waste lines,"]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 05:52:06 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.observernews.com/story08/news08/041808_lawsuit.htm</link>
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     <title>PA: Man Pleads Guilty To Holding 3 Hostage in Lower Merion</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A former handyman at an upscale Lower Merion condo complex in Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to holding three people hostage two months after he was fired from his job.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:20:26 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.kyw1060.com/pages/2106590.php?contentType=4&contentId=1979472]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Dream Living Takes a Nasty Turn</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Lee's Crossing is a bucolic equestrian community of 55 lots where million-dollar houses sit on 10-acre-minimum tracts. These are dream homes.  Residents are happy enough with their neighbors (fences make for good ones, after all). But some are not happy with the developer, Jack Merritt, who also happens to be the homeowner association board president.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:16:13 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041803840.html</link>
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     <title>MD: New Carrollton condominium board under fire by residents</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Resident after resident of New Carrollton’s Frenchman’s Creek Condominiums lined up to a microphone questioning Paul Gbenoba, the condominium’s board of directors president, about the wear and tear to their units and their bank accounts during an April 11 meeting at the New Carrollton Municipal Center.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 04:48:49 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/050108/landnew184359_32363.shtml</link>
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     <title>MD: Montgomery Village takes on expanded advocacy role for HOAs</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Never before were so many state bills presented on homeowners associations and condos. But Annapolis saw a flood this year. Bills on open meetings and financial reserves. Bills on foreclosures and liens on unpaid assessment fees. Even bills on where and how homeowners can erect solar panels.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 03:50:45 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/043008/gaitnew204736_32360.shtml</link>
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     <title>MD: Librarian who stole from community may get off with no criminal record</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A judge will likely allow a Montgomery County school librarian who stole $101,000 from a Gaithersburg community to serve her jail time this summer and get off with no criminal record so she can keep her school job.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:10:12 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.examiner.com/a-1361049~School_librarian_who_stole_from_community_may_get_off_with_no_criminal_record.html</link>
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     <title>NJ: Early AM fire displaces residents of six-unit condo</title>
     <description><![CDATA[An early morning fire Saturday displaced the residents of a six-unit condominium building and forced the evacuation of three other buildings]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:35:45 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080426/FRONT01/80426004</link>
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     <title>PA: Treasure Lake inching closer to becoming a borough</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Treasure Lake may be inching closer to becoming a borough.  At the Treasure Lake Property Owners Association Board of Directors work session this week, borough committee Chairman Bill Reznor gave an update on the borough initiative.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:27:10 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.thecourierexpress.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19510136&BRD=2758&PAG=461&dept_id=572984&rfi=6]]></link>
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     <title>MD: Columbia Association  board chairman says she's had enough</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Barbara Russell knows that some people will wonder why she is quitting the Columbia Association's board of directors after eight years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:16:11 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=658&NewsID=897113&CategoryID=1825&show=localnews&om=1]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Dream Living Takes a Nasty Turn</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Residents are happy enough with their neighbors (fences make for good ones, after all). But some are not happy with the developer, Jack Merritt, who also happens to be the homeowner association board president.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:50:18 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041803840.html</link>
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     <title>MD: Condo complex struggling with debt</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Property owners in a Temple Hills condominium complex where fees have tripled since 2006 because of a $500,000 bankruptcy debt said many are struggling to pay the higher fees and could lose their property]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:01:41 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/041708/uppenew175921_32360.shtml</link>
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     <title>NJ: Dispute about condo being used as synagogue going to court</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Unable to reach an accord privately, the two sides in a lengthy dispute about an ad hoc synagogue in a senior community are taking the matter to court.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:57:05 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080411/NEWS02/804110528/1070/NEWS02</link>
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     <title>NJ: Spring Lake complex wants relief from limits</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The association asked the council for relief from those restrictions so they could set their own restaurant hours, lower the minimum age of residents to 55 and open up the complex to more events by having a condominium resident be a sponsor, not an honoree, of an event.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:56:53 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080410/NEWS01/804100625</link>
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     <title>NJ: Chatham condo fire's cause is still unknown</title>
     <description><![CDATA[It was one of the largest fires ever to hit Chatham Township according to Township Fire Chief Jeff Burke, but the cause of the Briarwood Condominium fire is still a mystery.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:28:52 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.nj.com/news/independentpress/index.ssf?/base/news-0/120775934358140.xml&coll=18]]></link>
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     <title>PA: Task Force To Probe West Deer Condo Developer</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Thirty-eight condominium owners in West Deer may lose their homes because a developer won't pay his bills.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:02:29 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://kdka.com/local/Links.Development.condos.2.694343.html</link>
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     <title>NJ: Judge delays settlement in Burlco flooding case</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Three homeowners living downstream from Medford Lakes in Lumberton objected to the settlement offer by the Medford Lakes Colony Club, a homeowners association, as too small considering the significant size of the dam.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:45:43 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080403/NEWS01/804030380/1006/news01</link>
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     <title>MD: Woman Admits To Stealing From Homeowner's Association</title>
     <description><![CDATA[An Ocean City woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $19,000 from a homeowner's association she was hired to manage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:19:03 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.nbc4.com/news/15771125/detail.html</link>
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     <title>NJ: Fire ruins 10-unit condo building</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fire struck a three-story Briarwood building this afternoon and virtually wrecked the entire structure and its 10 condominiums.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:01:52 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080331/UPDATES01/803310349/1005/NEWS01</link>
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     <title>VA: Management Wants Man To Remove Pet Reptiles From Condo</title>
     <description><![CDATA[ An Alexandria man is fighting to keep his collection of snakes and other reptiles in his family's condominium, but property management says they have to go.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:58:33 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.nbc4.com/news/15753710/detail.html</link>
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     <title>PA: West Deer condo owners may lose homes</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Along with about three dozen other residents, Hazlett faces the prospect of losing his condo because the developer who built it is in debt to National City Bank and a Murrysville landscaping company.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:53:14 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_559993.html</link>
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     <title>NJ: Homeowners fight dock-rent demand</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A half-century after the development began along the Barnegat Bay shore, today's homeowners got a shock when they opened letters from Atlantic Coast Trading Corp., demanding up to $1,500 a year in rent for their docks.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:12:08 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080330/NEWS/803300430</link>
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     <title>VA: Housing Troubles Grow</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The current economic trends, including higher energy costs and a depreciating housing market, are affecting different communities at a different level. Although foreclosures - a measure of an area’s ability to repel economic pressures - have not impacted Reston to the degree they impacted some neighboring areas, the community has not escaped the wrath of an increasing foreclosure rate.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:55:22 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?paper=71&cat=104&article=95094]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Peace at hand in Ford’s Colony</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Thehomeowner association of Ford’s Colony plans to announce an agreement with developer Realtec this week that will end legal maneuvering against a continuing care facility across News Road.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:33:59 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.vagazette.com/news/local/va-news2_032608mar26,0,2520091.story</link>
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     <title>VA: New Rules Passed in Va. To Protect Homeowners Groups From Fund Theft</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The bills, approved by the General Assembly before it adjourned its annual legislative session last week, would create a regulatory board to license professional management companies. They also would create an ombudsman system for handling homeowner complaints, require management companies to be bonded or insured to cover losses caused by embezzlement, establish a certification system for management company employees and require independent audits.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:45:48 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102984.html</link>
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     <title>MD: Getting out of Frederick: Support mounting for deannexation in Dearbought</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Dearbought resident is circulating a petition that already has about 180 signatures from residents wanting to break from the city.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:33:04 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=72726</link>
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     <title>NJ: Know the rules before upgrading a condo</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A homeowner considering a home improvement project normally is concerned with obtaining architectural plans, a reputable contractor and all necessary municipal permits. While those steps may be sufficient for a single-family home, condominium unit owners often face additional issues.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:10:28 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.northjersey.com/business/realestate/Before_a_condo_upgrade_know_the_rules.html</link>
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     <title>MD: Heritage Harbour's detailed plans impress county officials</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The team began preparing intricate plans nearly a year ago. Its duties are written into the bylaws of the Heritage Harbour Community Improvement Association. The committee has been given a budget between $1,000 and $10,000 (the retirees won't say exactly how much), made up formal nameplates for the members and launched a public relations campaign to help their fellow residents survive whatever may come their way.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:13:36 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2008/03_02-14/TOP</link>
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     <title>NJ:  Fire Burns Condo Complex in New Jersey</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A fire broke out at the Oakwood Village Condos in Fords, N.J., on Wednesday evening. Firefighters from six municipalities -- including Fords, Perth Amboy, and Woodbridge -- responded to the scene just after 6 p.m. Flames engulfed six condo units.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:29:59 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5897024&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1]]></link>
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     <title>MD: Neighbors war over building codes</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Homeowners say community rules are invalid and the civic association -- a group of 15 residents that decides what buildings are permitted there -- is in the wrong.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:49:38 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.dailytimesonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080224/NEWS01/802240309/1002</link>
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     <title>VA: Common Interest Board Under Consideration</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Virginia Senate General Laws and Technology Committee was scheduled to conduct a hearing Wednesday on a H.B. 516, which would tighten control of firms that manage homeowners association money, but the measure is severely criticized by many homeowners.  The bill would create the Common Interest Board, a nine-member board]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:10:27 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=93911&paper=71&cat=104]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Geese-napping was likely legal</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Ford’s Colony woman contracted to have about 10 white geese rustled into a truck and deposited seven miles away to a pond off Penniman Road. She has agreed to replace them with a new flock.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:02:45 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.vagazette.com/news/local/va-news2_022008feb20,0,1934836.story</link>
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     <title>MD: Condo complex backs down in flag dispute</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A representative of Brodie Management Inc., which manages the condos, said that some on-site inspectors misinterpreted the rule and sent out about five letters about American flags in error and that flags are allowed to fly on the properties. Residents will be allowed to put them back up, management said.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:14:41 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2008/02_20-22/TOP</link>
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     <title>MD: Fees can burden MPDU residents</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Some residents of the King’s Overlook condominiums, which opened in the Vistas at Woodcliffe community in West Germantown in 2007 as affordable housing exclusively for seniors, are asking for a reduction in the maintenance and amenity fees that they pay to the Vistas Community Association.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:50:51 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/022008/germnew204035_32355.shtml</link>
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     <title>MD: Ruling on Arundel Fee Backs Homeowner Refunds</title>
     <description><![CDATA[This month, a Maryland appeals court ruled that the county must partially refund fees that were collected on new homes in the Odenton area because the money was not properly spent on roads and schools in that area.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:28:58 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/18/AR2008021802124.html</link>
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     <title>DE: Sea Chase clubhouse issue pits</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Neighbors, a high-profile developer, the county planning and zoning staff and now the 10 members of the Sussex planning and zoning commission and county council are locked in a battle over a missing 1,280-square foot clubhouse.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:58:51 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/200802/seachase021508.html</link>
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     <title>NJ: Know your condo association's deed, bylaws</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Every unit owner in a condominium association should be thoroughly familiar with the association's master deed and bylaws. These key governing documents describe the rights and duties of unit owners and the association, restrict the uses of units and the common elements, prescribe procedures for association governance,]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:02:30 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.northjersey.com/business/realestate/15710302.html</link>
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     <title>MD: Crofton letters ban troublemakers</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Note to criminals: Check your mail, it may keep you out of jail. To curtail nuisance crimes, residents of a Crofton neighborhood are sending letters to people they deem unsavory, telling them if they return to private property owned by the neighborhood they will be arrested for trespassing, a crime that could result to a $500 fine or 90 days in jail.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:40:51 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2008/02_15-24/TOP</link>
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     <title>VA: Attorney: FCC Order Does Not Change OpenBand Contract</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The order released by the Federal Communications Commission last fall will not put and end to the contract between developer Van Metre and OpenBand in the Southern Walk community, according to an attorney hired by the homeowner's association board of directors.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:13:19 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.leesburg2day.com/articles/2008/02/11/loudoun_business/biz443openband021108.txt</link>
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     <title>VA: Hanover residents must repair pond</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Residents of the Royal Glen subdivision in Hanover County are upset about having to pay thousands of dollars to fix a neighborhood pond they say the developer should have maintained.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:08:24 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/community/hanover.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-02-12-0057.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Pet door for cats considered tacky</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Last summer Davenport was cited for the cat door. The HOA president sent out a memo to residents that cats were in covenant violation, running free in the development, causing damage to neighbors’ screens, leaving waste, and killing birds at bird feeders.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:37:00 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.vagazette.com/news/local/va-news4_020908feb09,0,7505412.story</link>
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     <title>PA: Seven Springs banning fireplace use after fatal condo fire</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Twenty-six-year-old Sasha Zuro and 22-year-old Jonathan Murt, both of Belle Vernon, died in a fire at the Somerset County resort on Jan. 27. Since then, a county building inspector has found that fireplace flues in the condominiums have corrosion problems similar to those that caused the fatal fire.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:51:02 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2008/02/08/breaking_news/breaking860.txt</link>
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     <title>VA: Bill would allow private funding of traffic controls</title>
     <description><![CDATA[That's where homeowner association members want to take an active financial role in keeping traffic calm -- but without the help of HB 1032, they might not be able to.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:46:51 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WPN%2FMGArticle%2FWPN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354511224&path=]]></link>
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     <title>VA: A violent twist in HOA fund case</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Estranged from his wife, the 38-year-old Herndon man has been the focus of an embezzlement investigation since February 2007 in his role as the chief financial officer of Koger Management Group. On Jan. 28, a bankruptcy court judge ordered the sale of the company and its assets. Five days later, Koger was wounded in a shootout with police]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:40:14 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/022008/02072008/354147</link>
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     <title>NJ: A troubled South Jersey condo complex is scene of more violence overnight</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Residents have complained of drugs and gangs, vagrants, roaches, heating problems, and graffiti.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:00:14 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/take_action&id=5936032]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Homeowners Associations Face More Regulation</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Virginia's General Assembly is said to be considering legislation that would make it harder for just about anybody to get into the business of running an HOA. The Washington Post reports that the Assembly may create a regulatory board to license professional management companies, just like Realtors and other occupations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:36:57 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/02/va_hoa.html</link>
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     <title>VA:  Suspect in police shooting might have connections in HOA case</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Herndon man charged yesterday in Fairfax with attempted capital murder of a police officer may be the same man who was implicated last year in a widespread embezzlement investigation that could include local homeowners' associations. Police critically wounded Jeffrey S. Koger, 38, of Herndon, after a brief shootout near the Springfield Mall on Saturday morning.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:14:30 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/022008/02042008/353629</link>
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     <title>VA:  Lake of the Woods inks '08 budget</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Lake of the Woods directors have unanimously approved an $8.1 million budget for the Orange County homeowners association for the fiscal year that begins May 1.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:37:45 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/022008/02032008/353543</link>
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     <title>Protecting the Homeowners Association's Nest Egg</title>
     <description><![CDATA[How much is it worth for your condo or homeowners association to keep its money safe?]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:11:02 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020103897.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Fire damages Suffolk condo</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fire caused $15,000 in damage to a new condo in Suffolk Friday and left residents who had only just moved in looking for a new home.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:14:35 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-now-suffcondo-0101,0,4542536.story</link>
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     <title>VA: Fire destroys condos in Bedford Co.</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A fire early Saturday morning destroyed four condominium homes and damaged two more in Bedford County.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:43:09 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.roanoke.com/news/sml/wb/148714</link>
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     <title>MD: WCI returns deposits on condo tower</title>
     <description><![CDATA[WCI Communities Inc. has returned deposits to everyone with reservations for its Plaza Residences - the 23-story tower planned near the Columbia lakefront - while keeping the reservations intact, the company said in a statement this week.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:27:21 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-ho.wci01feb01,0,807240.story</link>
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     <title>NJ: Fire damages condo in Ocean City</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A fire Wednesday at Ocean Reefs Condominiums displaced at least three people, but nobody was injured.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:11:59 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/capemay/story/7531862p-7433915c.html</link>
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     <title>NJ: 2006 blaze in Hillsboro spurs new lawsuits</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Nearly two years after a fire destroyed eight town homes in a Hillsborough condominium community, the legal battle over damages suffered in the blaze is continuing.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:18:32 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080131/NEWS07/801310320</link>
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     <title>PA:  Treasure Lake looks to state legislators for help</title>
     <description><![CDATA["We are one of 11,735 planned Private Residential Communities throughout Pennsylvania that must maintain our own roads. Consequently, our residents pay Sandy Township over $1 million in taxes and fees each year and no funds are returned to Treasure Lake for our road maintenance and repair. Sandy Township states they can't legally take care of our roads since they are private.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:32:19 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.thecourierexpress.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19245960&BRD=2758&PAG=461&dept_id=572984&rfi=6]]></link>
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     <title>MD: Community remains alarmed after fatal shooting in Olney</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The murder has left many Olney residents feeling uneasy, especially those in the Victoria Springs neighborhood.  ‘‘There has been very little information at this point, so we are just waiting for some official notification from the police,"  said Paula Cooley, Victoria Springs Homeowner’s Association president.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:50:58 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/013008/olnenew61626_32356.shtml</link>
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     <title>PA: Other fireplaces may have same fault as deadly Seven Springs condo</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A code inspector will look into the construction of a fireplace that investigators have linked to a fire that killed two people and destroyed five condos on Sunday in Middlecreek Township.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:36:50 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_029233540.html</link>
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     <title>PA: Video report of Pine Ridge meeting</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A hostile scene at a private community in Pike County Saturday as a meeting ended abruptly when WBRE News arrived to cover the event.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:06:21 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://pahomepage.com/media_player.php?media_id=12254</link>
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     <title>PA: Two Killed In Seven Springs Condo Fire</title>
     <description><![CDATA[State Police in Somerset County are investigating an overnight fire that left two people dead in Seven Springs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:41:33 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://kdka.com/local/fatal.fire.Somerset.2.638867.html</link>
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     <title>DC: 4-Alarm Fire Destroys Condo Building</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A fierce fire that took more than six hours to extinguish has destroyed a condominium building being renovated in northwest Washington.  Eventually about 200 firefighters, including crews from suburban Maryland were involved.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:37:55 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=596&sid=1333634]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Two neighborhoods trash-talking</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Betty Belshee is done trashing the adjacent Homeowners Association over garbage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:21:55 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.manassasjm.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MJM/MGArticle/WPN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354368438&path=]]></link>
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     <title>PA: Pine Ridge staff fired after stormy meeting</title>
     <description><![CDATA[It was a tension convention in Bushkill on Saturday. More than 300 people crammed into the Pine Ridge community center to get answers from the tight-lipped community association's board about the absent security and office staff.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:08:21 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080127/NEWS/801270346</link>
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     <title>NJ: Copper thieves hit condo project</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Some very meticulous thieves stripped copper out of wiring worth $18,450 installed throughout two floors of a condominium under construction, police said yesterday.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:55:39 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-1/120133144945221.xml&coll=3]]></link>
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     <title>MD: Measure Aimed At Encouraging Solar Energy</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A bill in the General Assembly would allow people to use solar panels on their homes without having to worry about homeowner association rules.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:06:20 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://wjz.com/local/solar.panels.homeowner.2.634636.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Hecht proposes solar bill</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hecht's bill would protect homeowners who want to put up solar, regardless of local association rules. It would also allow them to create an easement for the sun rays that land on their roof to prevent neighbors from building obstructions.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:14:22 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=70254</link>
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     <title>VA: Man 42, arrested, in Saturday condo fire</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fire and police personnel responded to the first-floor condo fire on the 1000 block of Skiff's Landing Circle around]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:04:33 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/southofjames/dp-local_localbrfs_01210jan21,0,5061508.story?track=rss</link>
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     <title>NJ: Condo owners won't share shuttle costs</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A plan to have the homeowners in a gated, waterfront community on the western edge of Jersey City share the bill for shuttle bus service to Journal Square failed to get enough votes to continue the bus service into the new year]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:20:50 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-5/120055387456110.xml&coll=3]]></link>
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     <title>PA: Couple's repeatedly flooded condo</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hannelore is not only upset over the damage, but she says that this is the ninth or tenth time in seven years they've suffered some kind of water damage allegedly caused by the tenant upstairs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:21:35 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=5895664]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Deadbeat Landlord Keeps Condo Renter Out of the Pool</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Q: I rent a three-bedroom condominium unit in a new building. The unit's owner lives in Africa. The condo's pool opened recently. When I applied for a pool pass, I was told I couldn't have one because the owner is behind on his condo association dues. My lease does not specifically say I can use the pool, but it is a common area.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:35:32 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070600907.html?wpisrc=rss_rentals</link>
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     <title>MD: The boors next door</title>
     <description><![CDATA["Neighborhoods used to be the building blocks of civil society," says Forni. "That was when neighbors knew one another and had face-to-face encounters with one another at the grocer's, at the barber and at the pharmacy soda-fountain counter. Neighbors opened their homes to neighbors, kept an eye on their neighbors' children and helped one another in case of need."]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:15:13 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/realestate/bal-re.neighbor13jan13,0,6041176.story?coll=bal-features-headlines</link>
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     <title>PA: Condos Flood With Sewage</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Living in filth, residents of a condo building in Northeast Philly want answers after numerous incidents of sewage overflowing in their units.  They've been demanding action for a long time and are simply fed up after years of dealing with the problem.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:28:50 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.myfoxphilly.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5461666&version=5&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Angered residents dust off, ready to take on grower</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Subdivision residents met recently to plan action against a Florida-based tomato grower after high winds last week covered the neighborhood with a layer of soil from a nearby field.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:56:25 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.dailytimesonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080109/NEWS01/801090325/1002</link>
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     <title>PA: Condo Fire Leaves Dozens Homeless</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Three dozen people are homeless after a fire ripped through a Bucks County condominium complex early Monday morning.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:20:07 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.nbc10.com/news/14990992/detail.html</link>
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     <title>NJ:  Keeping the Peace</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A decade-old dispute is brewing in Spring Lake once again. On one side is a condominium association seeking relief through the Borough Council in order to "stop the flow of red ink," in the words of one of its members. On the other side is a group of neighbors who like things just the way they are and want to see their community quiet. In the middle of this conflict sits a century-old oceanfront building,]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:28:22 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080103/NEWS01/801030301/1004</link>
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     <title>VA: Johnson City overnight fire guts condo</title>
     <description><![CDATA[An overnight fire tore through the Northridge Condos in Johnson City.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:32:54 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/search.apx.-content-articles-TRI-2008-01-01-0010.html</link>
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     <title>NJ: Condo owners file suit about overpricing</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Alleging that Mountain Creek sold them overpriced condos on the strength of a surrounding village the company has no plans to build anytime soon, some owners of condominiums at Mountain Creek’s Black Creek Sanctuary and the Appalachian have filed suit against Mountain Creek and its owner, Intrawest Corp. of Vancouver, British Columbia]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:13:17 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2007/12/28/advertiser_news/news/9.txt</link>
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     <title>NJ: Condo, or no can do?</title>
     <description><![CDATA[What does a condo conversion mean to the tenants of an apartment building that is being transformed?]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:59:34 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19141328&BRD=1291&PAG=461&dept_id=523586&rfi=6]]></link>
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     <title>PA: Potted dwarf trees a little twist on Christmas trees</title>
     <description><![CDATA["They're a lot smaller and easier to handle, you don't have to cut the base of the tree, and they do very well in a condo or townhouse or smaller setting," says Nicholas Polanin, agricultural agent with the Rutgers University Cooperative Extension in Somerset County.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:02:50 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20071222_ap_potteddwarftreesalittletwistonchristmastrees.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Living, dying arrangements</title>
     <description><![CDATA[It will be a condo development to die for.  And if you do, hey, they can just shoot your body downstairs to the onsite funeral parlor.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:08:22 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%2FCDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173353953656&path=!news!opinion]]></link>
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     <title>MD: Wind-Stoked Fire Damages Condos</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A blaze stoked by high winds heavily damaged a three-story building in Beltsville yesterday, displacing nearly 100 residents and injuring four Prince George's County firefighters, none seriously.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:36:02 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/17/AR2007121700690.html</link>
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     <title>PA: Tunk residents live in fear of man who claims they are harassing him</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Neighbors claim he's harassed them and trespassed on their property. The homeowners association has accused him of failing to live up to his responsibilities in the community, including the timely payment of dues. The township says he's built structures on his property without the proper permits, houses too many animals and has threatened the township staff.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:41:26 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071216/NEWS/712160342/-1/NEWS01</link>
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     <title>MD: State law affects homeowners' boards</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Apathetic homeowners' associations could soon find themselves paying court-appointed receivers to manage their affairs.  A Maryland law that took effect Oct. 1 states that a group of three or more owners can ask the courts to appoint a receiver if their homeowners' or condominium association fails to recruit enough directors to meet a quorum]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:23:26 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=811&NewsID=860839&CategoryID=9045&show=localnews&om=1]]></link>
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     <title>NJ: Council rethinks restrictions on seniors' condos</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Discussion continued at Tuesday night's Borough Council meeting about decade-old restrictions imposed on the Essex and Sussex oceanfront condominium complex.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:34:05 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/NEWS01/712120380</link>
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     <title>VA: Homeowners vs. history</title>
     <description><![CDATA[In older neighborhoods, an architectural review board must approve changes to a home's appearance]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:45:18 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/newport_news/dp-news_reviewboards_1209dec09,0,1004121.story</link>
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     <title>MD:  Reclaiming their communities</title>
     <description><![CDATA[About 50 county residents who were members of their local homeowners association and citizens groups or seeking tips on how to start a new neighborhood watch program attended the seminar]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:52:51 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/120607/landnew183112_32374.shtml</link>
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     <title>NJ: Condo fire called an "accident"</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Investigators from both the city and the Monmouth County Fire Marshal's Office believe an "energized electrical light fixture," similar to a deck light, on the second floor in the rear of the building may have been the source of the fire,]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:45:47 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071207/NEWS01/712070382/1004</link>
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     <title>DE: HOA, homeowner back away from shed dispute</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A fight between a local resident and his development's homeowners' association was resolved at the zero hour, just before going in front of a judge. The result: The homeowner's shed has a new lease on life.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:19:18 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071206/DCP01/712060380</link>
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     <title>PA: Scamming Couple</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A young couple moved into a high-end condominium complex in Philadelphia and soon thereafter held a house warming, inviting all of their neighbors. They were living the high life. They vacationed in Europe, the Caribbean and North America. But police said their high living was financed with other people's money, that of several of their neighbors.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:26:43 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.wrex.com/News/index.php?ID=24358</link>
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     <title>MD: Homeowner groups in spotlight</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Apathetic homeowners' associations soon could find themselves paying court-appointed receivers to manage their affairs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:18:00 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=809&NewsID=858991&CategoryID=5830&show=localnews&om=1]]></link>
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     <title>DC: Officials Urge Caution When Heating Home This Winter</title>
     <description><![CDATA[In Kensington Tuesday it took 75 firefighters to bring a blaze in a condo complex under control. No one was injured, but the fire displaced more than 45 families.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:03:19 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.nbc4.com/news/14775063/detail.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Water damage repairs cost condo residents $40-thousand each</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A $40-thousand assessment for water damage repairs make the sweet sounds from Mike Hassell's piano turn sour.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:55:02 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=7451151&nav=23ii]]></link>
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     <title>MD: Md. Court of Appeals rules for owners in pier dispute</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Neighbors do not have the authority to stop property owners from building a 610-foot pier and bridge, the state's highest court ruled unanimously yesterday, dealing a decisive blow to a Severna Park community association.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:40:59 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/realestate/bal-md.ar.pier04dec04,0,2128479.story</link>
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     <title>MD: As Number of Homeowners Associations Grows, So Does Number of Complaints</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Complaints against condo and homeowner's associations across the state are becoming increasingly frequent as more and more of these common-ownership communities are built, state officials said.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:31:09 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://somd.com/news/headlines/2007/6831.shtml</link>
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     <title>Housing Counsel: Foreclosures, Unpaid Dues Strain Condo Boards</title>
     <description><![CDATA[I'm hearing a lot these days from condominium board members who are under stress because of financial problems at their associations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:12:27 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113000940.html</link>
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     <title>DE: Paladin Club condo deeds have been lost in the court shuffle</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Condominium owners at the Paladin Club are in a unique position to test Delaware's condominium law. We were put in this awful circumstance due to a serious error in judgment made by the Delaware Bankruptcy Court and New Castle County's attorneys.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:41:24 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071130/OPINION07/711300323/1112/OPINION</link>
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     <title>NJ: Osborn Island homeowners still hoping to block new development</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Members of the Osborn Island Homeowners Association are fighting to keep a 46-acre maritime forest from being developed.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:27:45 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/ocean/story/7519233p-7418961c.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Owner of wall faces foreclosure</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Spotsylvania man continues to accrue thousands of dollars in debt because of a crumbling retaining wall on his property that has been in disrepair for more than a decade.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:25:07 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/112007/11282007/336802</link>
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     <title>MD: GGP is holding private talks on Town Center</title>
     <description><![CDATA[General Growth Properties Inc., the Chicago-based company that controls most of Columbia's downtown real estate, is holding private meetings with community groups to discuss downtown redevelopment....Hekimian said he thinks that inviting village board members, as the company has done for a meeting scheduled Dec. 13, is inappropriate unless the session is open to the public.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:51:58 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-ho.columbia14nov28,0,7160986.story</link>
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     <title>VA: Norfolk man charged with theft, fraud worth $72,000</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Summers then used funds from the condo association's bank accounts to pay some of the initial credit card bills, the court papers say. Later, the bills went unpaid.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:34:37 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=137440&ran=96291]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Did HOA Funds Finance D.C. Restaurant?</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A civil lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C.’s Superior Court in October 2007 claims that as much as $800,000 of funds allegedly embezzled from the clients of Koger Management Group, Inc. might have paid for a 49 percent interest in a posh Washington steak house restaurant on Capitol Hill.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:03:27 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=90882&paper=67&cat=104]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Leisure World's Endangered View</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Residents of a high-rise in Lansdowne, who could lose their view of the Potomac River if plans for a new condominium move forward, have threatened legal action to save their premium water vista.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:43:54 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=600&sid=1295488]]></link>
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     <title>DE: Bear subdivision off to rocky start</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The developer told state officials the work would be done July 13, but that deadline passed long ago with no penalties imposed. Minor cosmetic work may be forthcoming soon, but a top coat probably isn't likely until spring. And that means residents who paid $350,000 and more for their homes could face another winter with the potholes and the raised manhole covers, and have a tough time finding a contractor willing to plow snow around the hazards.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:21:28 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071115/NEWS/711150353/1006/NEWS</link>
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     <title>MD: Columbia condo tower faces risks</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A controversial proposed 23-story condominium tower at the heart of redevelopment planned for downtown Columbia may be in jeopardy as its developer struggles in a challenging condo-building market.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:22:35 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-ho.tower14nov14,0,3280497.story?track=rss</link>
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     <title>MD: Villages homeowner avoids foreclosure</title>
     <description><![CDATA[An immigrant couple managed to keep their townhouse from being auctioned off by negotiating a last-minute agreement.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:23:18 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=67475</link>
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     <title>PA: Glenhardie appeals DEP decision</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Glenhardie Condominium Association has appealed the stormwater permit the state environmental agency issued to Realen Valley Forge Greenes, the developer of the proposed Village at Valley Forge complex.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:12:13 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.dailylocal.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/Daily?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pg_article&r21.content=/DLN/_RSSFeed/TopStories/TopStoryList_Story_824577&r21.pgpath=/DLN/News/Top%20Stories]]></link>
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     <title>NJ: Hovnanian Loses 40% of Deals ; Tighter Loan Market Blamed</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hovnanian Enterprises Inc., New Jersey's largest home builder, said 40 percent of its customers canceled contracts to buy homes in the fourth quarter as stricter lending standards made it tougher to obtain mortgages]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:10:14 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.builderonline.com/industry-news.asp?referer=rss26&sectionID=26&articleID=606541]]></link>
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     <title>MD: Kettering residents battle with association</title>
     <description><![CDATA[With eight days left before ballots must be turned in for the Kettering Community Association’s board of directors, controversy is swirling around the upcoming election.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:51:15 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/110807/lanhnew171228_32366.shtml</link>
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     <title>DC: Washington Firefighters Snake Hoses to Find Hydrants With Water</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Washington firefighters had to string together a mile of hose, run it over a bridge and connect directly with water mains in the next neighborhood to put out a blaze engulfing an apartment building.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:15:39 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aw1L_5FxVGqk&refer=us]]></link>
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     <title>VA:  Personal concierge service offers busy folks a break</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The company is looking into working with apartments and condominiums to offer concierge availability for residents. As part of the plan, residents would have LifeStyle Management available for their personal use when needed. If the resident does not want that much of a commitment, they could purchase the plans on their own.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:52:37 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.dailypress.com/business/dp-biz_whatworks_1106nov06,0,2791796.story</link>
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     <title>VA: Parking decision angers HOA members</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A recent decision by a Prince William County homeowners association to eliminate street parking on Towering Oak Way has become such an issue for people living there that resident Arif Husain joked he can only invite two guests at a time to his house.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:56:04 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WPN/MGArticle/WPN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173353375923]]></link>
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     <title>PA: An autistic boy's mom said she won't tolerate harassment about her eviction</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Shelly Spann says she can take the criticism in a fight over being evicted because of her noisy, autistic 9-year-old son, but she won't put up with an attack on her children. Spann called city police Monday after someone taped a few pages of "harassing" comments on her door at Monarch Mills Condominiums]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:55:26 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_7329295</link>
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     <title>MD: Bank robber had ties to earlier condo robberies</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The burglary victim, Helene Berman, filed a $3.25 million civil lawsuit in Circuit Court in August against the brothers, their parents, the condominium association and its management company.  Barry Leibowitz, Berman’s attorney in Wheaton, asserts that Jaime Denzel had access to Berman’s home because his mother, Susan Denzel, was president of Kentlands V Condominium Association, and employed him to perform plumbing maintenance in homes at the complex.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:53:03 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/103107/gaitnew91953_32376.shtml</link>
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     <title>VA: Loophole found against builders</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A routine housekeeping resolution set off a debate this week that could empower homeowner associations. A bold subdivision for work force housing hangs in the balance. The upshot is that HOAs may be able to stop developers from expanding neighborhoods beyond the original plan.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:25:24 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.vagazette.com/news/local/va-news1_102707oct27,0,2192415.story</link>
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     <title>MD: Group Opposes Property Management Tax Proposal</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Just few days removed from the Maryland General Assembly’s special session called to begin tackling the state’s projected $1.7 billion deficit, everything appears to be on the table including an effort to lump property management services into a larger group of services not previously subject to state sales tax, the passage of which could have a huge impact on the resort area]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:10:10 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.mdcoastdispatch.com/article.php?cid=30&id=1735]]></link>
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     <title>PA: First new condo building in decades opens in Pittsburgh</title>
     <description><![CDATA["I really believe we are turning the corner and are creating an environment that people want to live, to work and play," said Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, during the first of two grand opening events scheduled Tuesday]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:52:15 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_534165.html</link>
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     <title>DC: Killing D.C. oak tree brings $15,000 fine</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A condominium developer in Washington has been fined $15,000 for pruning a 60-year-old oak tree so severely it died.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:34:34 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/128449.html</link>
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     <title>PA: County leader, partner sued</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A York Township condominium association filed a lawsuit this week against the complex's developers, one of whom is County Commissioner Steve Chronister.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:54:10 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_7231421</link>
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     <title>NJ: Condo group wants rules eased</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Representatives of the Essex and Sussex oceanfront condominium complex have requested some relief from the borough council of decade-old restrictions on how the complex operates.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:08:28 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071019/NEWS01/710190432/1004</link>
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     <title>MD: The goose herder</title>
     <description><![CDATA["My wife was an editor at The Gaithersburg Gazette then," Laxton said. "And there's this story in the newspaper about a hundred geese being rounded up, and it freaked out the residents. It had been done in secret. They'd killed all these geese and sent them out to a rendering plant.  "It caused a lot of controversy," Laxton continued, "A candlelight vigil for the geese turned into a fist fight."]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:32:26 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/art_life/display_Whatitslike.htm?storyid=66504</link>
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     <title>VA: Man vows to keep his flagpole</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Back from a weeklong stay in the hospital for heart trouble, Stack's voice was frail yesterday, his energy depleted. But he said the support he's received from strangers has lifted his spirits. About 15 people have called him and another half-dozen strangers came to his house to chat.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:37:41 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/102007/10172007/325695?rss=local</link>
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     <title>NJ: Managing conflict in condo communities</title>
     <description><![CDATA[With a new Commissioner of Community Affairs in place, and in Joe Doria, having a seasoned legislator of considerable talent, perhaps there will be a response to the opportunity created by the Supreme Court's decision in the Twin Rivers case to improve governance and conflict management in condominium communities in New Jersey.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:31:01 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://blog.nj.com/njv_linda_stamato/2007/10/managing_conflict_in_condo_com.html</link>
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     <title>PA: Downtown Pittsburgh condo buyers to get tax break</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Act 42, a 10-year tax abatement program recently passed by the city and Pittsburgh Board of Public Education to encourage new housing development and substantial rehabilitation of existing houses, offers a tax break up to $6,180 annually -- or $61,800 over the 10 years -- based on current millage rates.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:39:51 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/mostread/s_532812.html</link>
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     <title>MD: No Injuries Reported In Condo Fire After Alarms Fail</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fire investigators are trying to determine why alarms failed to sound during a fire Thursday night at a College Park condo complex.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:57:40 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.wbaltv.com/news/14325663/detail.html?rss=bal&psp=news]]></link>
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     <title>DC: Condo fire's effects to last for months</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The effort to renovate an Adams Morgan condominium building heavily damaged in a recent fire will take 10 to 14 months, leaving its 45 residents with financial problems and forcing many to live with relatives, a group trying to help the residents said yesterday.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:12:49 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://washingtontimes.com/article/20071012/METRO/110120067/1004</link>
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     <title>MD: wants to create environmental office</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Another council member expressed concern about the commission's use of the word require when discussing potential changes to homeowner association covenants that sometimes prohibit practices that could help the environment.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:26:00 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-ho.green10oct10,0,279591.story</link>
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     <title>NJ high-rise condo fire</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Firefighters had trouble getting to the fire because the water was only activated up to the 14th floor.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:57:06 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.wcbd.com/midatlantic/cbd/news.apx.-content-articles-CBD-2007-10-09-0008.html</link>
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     <title>VA: OLD GLORY Man in flag flap hospitalized HOA OFFICE FLIES FLAG ON FLAGPOLE</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Spotsylvania man who was ordered to take down a flagpole flying the stars and stripes was in the hospital this week with heart trouble.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:56:35 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/102007/10062007/322617</link>
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     <title>VA: Justice, IRS Enter Koger Investigation</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The United States Attorney is "overseeing" an investigation of the Koger Management Group by several federal and local law enforcement agencies, according to a letter received by homeowners associations that used the services of the embattled real estate management company.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:22:50 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=88260&paper=63&cat=104]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Spotsylvania man loses battle to display flag</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Salem Fields HOA property manager, who asked not to be identified, says Stack can attach the flag to his house or garage, and in the notice, she cites the section that prohibits the pole.  "It's not the flag; it's the pole," she says.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:40:20 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/102007/10032007/321060</link>
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     <title>DC: Firefighters Battle 4-Alarm Condo Fire</title>
     <description><![CDATA[About 100 firefighters were called to the 2600 block of Adams Mill Road in Northwest D.C. early Monday morning to battle a massive condo fire.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:14:20 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?id=56581&sectionId=46]]></link>
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     <title>PA: Condo units empty for nearly 2 years</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Holly Brubach hasn't given up on selling residential condominium units in the ornate Granite Building, Downtown, even though she hasn't had one sale in nearly two years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:48:06 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/rss/s_530012.html</link>
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     <title>NJ:  Twp. to help out condos on plumbing emergency</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Breaks in the water supply system in the Hidden Lake development are tapping into the condominium association's capital reserve fund, making it difficult for homeowners to fund the repairs and replacements themselves.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:47:25 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://nbs.gmnews.com/news/2007/0927/Front_Page/032.html</link>
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     <title><![CDATA[PA: A condo, cats & the lady who loves them]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[You know the rest of the story. The cats were discovered. The condo board ruled they had to go.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:49:37 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20070926_Jill_Porter___A_condo__cats___the_lady_who_loves_them.html</link>
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     <title>MD: In Harford Co., residents pay their own way for safe streets</title>
     <description><![CDATA["For any homeowner association, it comes down to economics," said Dave Caplan, principal of Community Association Management, a Stevenson company that manages homeowner and condominium association properties. "You have to see if you can afford the level of security. Security is never cheap and it never comes with a guarantee."]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:37:53 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/harford/bal-te.md.ha.patrol24sep24,0,2457276.story</link>
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     <title>NJ: State wants to require fire sprinklers for older high-rises</title>
     <description><![CDATA[the state Department of Community Affairs proposed a change to the state fire code that would require older high-rises -- both residential and office buildings -- to be retrofitted to include sprinklers.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:35:34 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3NDAmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcxOTc2NjQmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyMQ==</link>
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     <title>MD: Community seeks funds to fix road</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A sign at the base of a small bluff in Edgewater warns motorists: "DANGER. Road damage ahead. Proceed at your own risk."]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:33:40 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2007/09_20-30/CSC</link>
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     <title>VA: Lawmaker sides with slain nurse's condo leasee</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A lawmaker is now taking sides with a woman who’s left holding the lease on a condo that used to be a crime scene.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:19:54 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_local_092007_slain_nurse_condo.f2f3b305.html</link>
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     <title>PA: Homes in the path of turnpike expansion</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Forty residents could lose their homes and George Swan, president of the homeowner's association, said the authority plans to seize the recreation area in the development, including tennis courts, a basketball court, a baseball field and playground]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:39:38 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-09192007-1410055.html</link>
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     <title>VA: Henrico’s Lost Lake Is Disappearing, Lawsuit Alleges</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Members of the Lost Lake Association in Henrico County are worried that their neighborhood pond is living up to its name a little too well.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:36:20 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.styleweekly.com/article.asp?idarticle=15178</link>
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     <title>VA: Condo fire in Hampton displaces 12 families</title>
     <description><![CDATA[12 families are looking for a new place to stay after an overnight fire. It sparked around 1:30 this morning at the Hampton Club Condos on Davenport Court in Hampton.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:32:50 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=7097177&nav=23ii]]></link>
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     <title>DC: How Do You Feel About HOAs?</title>
     <description><![CDATA[You love them when they nab your neighbor for letting the trash overflow or installing that hideous oversized satellite dish that could blot out the sun, but hate them when they come after you for your beloved garden gnome. Who are they? They're the board members of the HOA, the Homeowners Association.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:28:49 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=1252657]]></link>
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     <title>VA: Homeowners coalition knows importance of organized approach</title>
     <description><![CDATA["Part of the problem is that homeowners associations have this great energy when something is happening to them, but that energy dissipates when either nothing is occurring that's in their backyard or the case is over so the energy doesn't sustain itself," he said. "Through our ordeal, I learned that active collaboration and numbers of voters is what matters in this debate."]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:44:23 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/community/chesterfield.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-09-16-0004.html</link>
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     <title>NJ: Know what's in those condo and co-op fees</title>
     <description><![CDATA[You've just signed a contract to purchase the condo of your dreams – the price is right, and the maintenance fee seems reasonable. That night, sleep eludes you as you wonder: Just what does that extra couple of hundred in monthly fees cover anyway, and could it double next year? You sit up – heart palpitating – and start second-guessing your decision to buy the unit.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:25:58 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3NDAmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcxOTQ5NzAmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXky</link>
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     <title>VA: Home Business Limits Face Court Challenge</title>
     <description><![CDATA[After months of meetings and debates, the battle over the operation of home-based child-care services in Lansdowne has moved to Loudoun Circuit Court.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:04:32 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.leesburg2day.com/articles/2007/09/14/news/fp804ldaycare091407.txt</link>
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     <title>NJ: Lake Gerard cabin owners sue over condo plan</title>
     <description><![CDATA[The condo proposal "fails to provide homeowners with any consideration for the value of their homes," states the lawsuit. "Instead, (it) would require the homeowners to collectively pay millions of dollars to save their homes from removal and/or destruction by Lake Gerard, and to prevent 'evictions' that Lake Gerard continues to threaten" upon those who might not buy the land under their cabins.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:40:54 -0500</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/sussex/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1189744513273180.xml&coll=1]]></link>
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     <title>MD: Kettering residents push for reforms</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Over 200 Kettering Community Association members came out to voice their displeasure with their board of directors Monday night at an open meeting of the board]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:03:05 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.gazette.net/stories/091307/largnew174515_32356.shtml</link>
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     <title>PA: Condo developer admits bribing official for tax help in Philly</title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Philadelphia condo developer admits he gave a $20,000 bribe to a city real-estate assessor to lower his property-tax bill]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:58:52 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070908/NEWS/70908010</link>
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     <title>NJ: Gay community should respect Methodist values in Ocean Grove</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ocean Grove is New Jersey's Victorian jewel that likes to call itself God's square mile. It was begun in 1870 as a Methodist retreat. You can buy a house, a store or a bed-and-breakfast in Ocean Grove, but the property is owned by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, and then leased to property owners for 99 years, at $10 a year.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:00:29 -0500</pubDate>
     <link>http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070906/COLUMNISTS01/709060495</link>
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     <title>DE: Party town changing to boomer condo haven</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Traditionally, Dewey has been known as a place to party, with such attractions as the Friday night taco toss at the Lighthouse bar and restaurant. But now well-hee