{"id":2588,"date":"2023-05-26T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2023-05-26T17:17:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:17:49","slug":"another-thanks-to-construction-law-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/?p=2588","title":{"rendered":"Another Thanks to Construction Law Musings &#8211; HOAs and Construction Defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond Construction Law attorney Chris Hill, my friend and colleague,\u00a0permitted me another opportunity to blog at his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/constructionlawva.com\/\">award-winning blog Construction Law Musings<\/a>. Chris is an outstanding Virginia attorney, and his blog is a great source of information on construction law, including the intricacies of mechanic\u2019s liens. You can also follow him on Twitter,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/constructionlaw\">@ConstructionLaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chris has a regular feature called &#8220;Guest Post Friday&#8221; in which he invites other bloggers to contribute to his Musings. For this blog, we wrote a post exploring the statutory warranties, provided in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?000+cod+55-79.79\">Va. Code \u00a7 55-79.79<\/a>\u00a0of the Condominium Act, that require the Declarant to warrant \u201call of the common elements for two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a brief excerpt of the post:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>When either a commercial or residential condominium development nears the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/?p=1062\">time of automatic transition<\/a>, the developer and the owners face many challenges.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?000+cod+55-79.41\">The developer, or \u201cDeclarant,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0must transfer responsibility for management, enforcement of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/?p=689\">Condominium Instruments<\/a>, and finances, amongst other responsibilities, to the new owner-controlled Board of Directors. With the pending departure of the Declarant, owners can become concerned about possible construction defects with the common elements. This blog post discusses the process and responsibilities under the statutory warranties provided by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?000+cod+55-79.39\">Virginia Condominium Act<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the complete blog at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/constructionlawva.com\/condominiums-statutory-warranty-on-structural-defects\/\">Construction Law Musings<\/a>, as well as many other informative posts on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/constructionlawva.com\/\">Chris\u2019 outstanding blog<\/a>. Thanks again, Chris!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Thank-you.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2234 alignleft\" alt=\"Thank you\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Thank-you.png\" width=\"131\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Thank-you.png 365w, https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Thank-you-260x300.png 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When either a commercial or residential condominium development nears the time of automatic transition, the developer and the owners face many challenges. The developer, or \u201cDeclarant,\u201d must transfer responsibility for management, enforcement of the Condominium Instruments, and finances, amongst other responsibilities, to the new owner-controlled Board of Directors. With the pending departure of the Declarant, owners can become concerned about possible construction defects with the common elements. This blog post discusses the process and responsibilities under the statutory warranties provided by the Virginia Condominium Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,57,75,23,7,141],"tags":[144,92,380,345,382,244,401,245,381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}