This handbook provides best-practice guidance for attorneys whether they are representing condominium developers, associations, or lenders. Expert practitioners in the field offer experience-based solutions for the challenging problems facing their clients as well as creative solutions for the unique circumstances and situations that arise in condominium law issues. Two new chapters have been added to the 2021 edition: Chapter 2 — Practitioners’ Guide to the Illinois Common Interest Community Association, and Chapter 10, Section 15 and Condominium Deconversion.
Chapter 1 — The Illinois Condominium Property Act and Condominium Titles
Laura Lau Marinelli, Elizabeth A. Thompson, and Thomas Goodwyn, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Practitioners’ Guide to Illinois’ Common Interest Community Association Act
Charles M. Keough,Keough & Moody PC, Chicago
Chapter 3 — Local Condominium Ordinances
Karen Beverly, Keough & Moody PC, Chicago
Chapter 4 — Condominium Documents
Nicholas P. Bartzen and Kristofer D. Kasten, Altus Legal, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Condos and Common Interest Communities in Illinois — A Look Back and Suggestions for Going Forward
Victoria C. Bresnahan and Brian Meltzer, Meltzer Purtill & Stelle LLC,Chicago and Schaumburg
Chapter 6 — Condominium Construction Finance
Robert J. Taylor, Roetzel & Andress, LPA,Chicago
Chapter 7 — The Condominium Property Report and the Condominium Disclosure Summary
Adam T. Berkoff and Brian A. Cohen, DLA Piper (U.S), LLP,Chicago
Chapter 8 — Conversion of Existing Structures
Kenneth A. Michaels, Bauch & Michaels, LLC,Chicago
Chapter 9— Commercial Condominiums
R. Kymn Harp, Robbins, Salomon & Patt, Ltd.,Chicago
Chapter 10 — Illinois Condominium Deconversion
R. Kymn Harp, Robbins, Salomon & Patt, Ltd.,Chicago