As we all confront the health and business challenges resulting from the Coronavirus, please know that we are here to help. Some of you have already started to reach out to our team to prepare for an inevitable consequence of the current pandemic, collection of delinquent assessments from unit owners ...
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The rule of thumb in New Jersey is that private and hard money lenders should only originate loans where: (1) the borrower is a corporation, limited liability company or limited liability partnership; and (2) the security for the loan is non-owner occupied properties purchased for investment purposes. Where the above two rules of thumb are followed, New Jersey private and hard money lenders should be exempt from civil usury restrictions and subject only the criminal usury restriction of 50% per annum.
After the New Jersey Supreme Court’s recent decision in Green v. Morgan Properties, 215 N.J. 431 (2013), it is advisable that flat fees for attorney services included in residential leases have a direct and actual connection to time spent on a particular matter.
Condominium associations, their boards and management companies often are uncertain how to handle collection of assessments after a unit owner has filed for bankruptcy.
(Published in New Jersey Law Journal) New Jersey case law holds that unpaid maintenance assessments and late charges assessed by a homeowners' association survive a foreclosure judgment and a sheriff's sale if recorded bylaws and deed covenants of the homeowners' association state that such obligation follows a subsequent owner.