You can complain to your HOA board, your state’s licensing board, the police, or even file a lawsuit but for someone with a professional license nothing beats going to the organization that gave them those letters after their name.
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To My Fellow Applegate Unit Owners – 12
In the case of APPLEGATE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. v. APPLEGATE ESTATES, LLC Et Al late yesterday (Friday October 2, 2026) Mastrianni’s lawyersa filed a Motion To Set Aside Default For Failure To Plead as well as a Second Request To Revise Plaintiff’s Amended Revised Complaint. The main takeaway was this line from the motion:
Good cause exists because Defendants are actively advancing the pleadings, contemporaneously file a targeted Second Request to Revise directed to newly added Count Five, and seek to litigate the claims and defenses on their merits without prejudice to Plaintiff.
What this could mean for us:
Continue reading28 Sep
To My Fellow Applegate Unit Owners – 11
In the case of APPLEGATE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. v. APPLEGATE ESTATES, LLC Et Al your lawyers on September 26, 2026 filed a Certificate of Closed Pleadings even though hearing is scheduled for October 26, 2026. What this could mean:
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HOA Transfer Fee
Our HOA is looking to impose a transfer fee on resales payable to the HOA. .5% was floated which, for a $500,000 resale, would come to $2,500. This got some pushback (4 emails) so the vote currently going on is to have two months of HOA fees be the transfer fee which, for 2027, would make it $960. Voting is currently 30 for with another 29 needed to get to the 67% target.
The argument the HOA board is putting out there is that these fees are prevalent and the charge proposed is reasonable. But are they and is it?
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To My Fellow Applegate Unit Owners – 10
In the case of APPLEGATE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. v. APPLEGATE ESTATES, LLC Et Al a motion for default – failure to plead has been granted. This means two things.
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To My Fellow Applegate Unit Owners – 9
In the case of APPLEGATE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. v. APPLEGATE ESTATES, LLC Et Al your lawyers, Zeldes, Needle & Cooper, PC, filed a motion yesterday that will accelerate this case as well as the fees you will be paying them.
Continue reading27 Aug
To My Fellow Applegate Unit Owners – 8
Vladimir Putin’s official presidential-election vote shares have ranged from about 53% to 87%, with his margins becoming much larger over time. His most recent official result, in 2024, was 87.28% of votes cast. Putin may never get to 100%.
But I did.
Continue reading25 Aug
To My Fellow Applegate Unit Owners – 7
Of everything I have read regarding our judicial system this book has been the most helpful and happens to be relevant to the Applegate lawsuit, especially the parts on statutes of limitations
Continue reading7 Aug
To My Fellow Applegate Unit Owners – 6
In the case of APPLEGATE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. v. APPLEGATE ESTATES, LLC Et Al your lawyers filed an OBJECTION TO MOTION FOR NONSUIT FOR FAILURE TO PLEAD yesterday with a hearing on this motion set for September 8, 2026 where they will argue:
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Declarant Responsibility For Reserves
When perplexity.ai ($20/month version) was asked if reserve studies were required by law to be done and if there were a level of reserves that HOAs in Connecticut needed to set aside before a declarant has turned over the running of association to a board of unit owners it came out with:
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