Master Deed For A Condominium In Virginia
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We recommend seeing a licensed attorney in the Commonwealth familiar with recordation/land records to prepare the deed so that it is prepared properly as it is a legal document transferring property. All deeds have to meet all standards within the Code of Virginia and the Library of Virginia Recordation Standards.
Any unit owner who pays any creditor of the association a percentage of the total amount due to such creditor equal to such unit owner's common element interest in the inium shall be entitled to obtain from such creditor a release of any judgment or lien that such creditor otherwise has the right to file against ...
A common element is defined as all portions of the property except the units. Examples of common elements include fitness centers, elevators, lobbies, walkways, lighting in common hallways, garbage collection areas, swimming pools, landscaping, club houses, and more.
Limited common elements are parts of a condo that are assigned to individual units, but considered community property rather than the tenant's. Examples of limited common elements include windows, balconies, driveways, elevators, clubhouses, and swimming pools.
"Common interest community" means real estate subject to a declaration containing lots, at least some of which are residential or occupied for recreational purposes, and common areas to which a person, by virtue of the person's ownership of a lot subject to that declaration, is a member of the association and is ...
The Virginia inium Act consists of five articles addressing general provisions, the creation, alteration, and termination of iniums, inium management, administration of sales of iniums, disclosure requirements and authorized fees.
Maintenance, repair, and replacement of a limited common element is usually the responsibility of the association except to the extent the declaration shifts that duty to the unit owner.
The master deed defines the specifics of the condo association, the development, what is to be built, how it is to be managed, as well as who is responsible for what elements of the development. The master deed is the over arching. document that defines much of the development.
Inium Documents means the master deed, recorded pursuant to this act, and any other instrument referred to in the master deed or bylaws which affects the rights and obligations of a co-owner in the inium. inium Plan means a plan described in Section 4285.
The inium declaration, also called a master deed or master lease, is recorded in the public records, binding all current and future condo owners to its terms and conditions. It includes restrictive covenants on inium owners that regulate the use of both common areas and private inium units.
