Note: This week’s column was written by my law partner, Keith Nichols. Q. I just learned my association has been assessing fines against me for what it claims to be a violation of my neighborhood’s rules. Although I received a letter informing me of the alleged violation several months ago, I have heard nothing else […]

This week’s column was written by Melissa Merritt-Darden, Vice President of HOA management company Associa Carolinas, in Charlotte. J. R. R. Tolkien started his classic tale, “The Hobbit: There and Back Again,” with these words, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” As we read further into the novel we come to […]