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Condominium-Apartment Insider

June 2009
Issue 1 

Throwing Away the Key: 
How Condominiums Can Keep Children Safe from Sex Offenders!
 

On July 29, 1994 seven year old Megan Kanka, a second grader in Hamilton, New Jersey, went for a bike ride with a friend in an otherwise unremarkable and quiet subdivision.  Megan never came home.  At first, Megan's Mother thought that Megan had lost track of time chasing fireflies, as she was prone to do.  Instead, Megan was kidnapped, raped and murdered by Jesse Timmendquas, a repeat violent sex offender who had just been released from prison and moved in across the street from Megan.  Had Megan's parents known the history of their new neighbor, Megan might be alive today.

 Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Creates Newest Trigger for Fair Housing Accommodation Requests  
 

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - MCS - though still a relatively new and often questioned medical diagnosis, is surfacing with increasing frequency in requests from apartment tenants and condominium owners seeking "accommodations" under fair housing laws.
 
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  RI Condominium Legislation Passes House of Representatives by 61-0 Vote
 

MEEB attorneys Edmund Allcock, co-chair of the CAI RI Legislation Action Committee, and Janet Oulousian Aronson have followed up last year's success in passing ground breaking super-lien legislation in Rhode Island by proposing House Bill 5906, which was sponsored by Representative Patricia Serpa (D) of West Warwick, RI.  

MEEB Involved in Defeat of National Anti-Condominium Legislation    
 

On April 30, 2009, the U.S. Senate voted 51-45 against the legislation that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to rewrite mortgage terms for struggling borrowers before they face foreclosure -- the so-called mortgage "cram-down" bill.  

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