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Publications

You can read the full text of Steve Sowell's publications (if available online) by clicking on the appropriate link.

Fitting the Round Peg into the Square Hole: Condominium Assessments in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. Published in the Michigan Real Property Review.

Service of Process and the Statute of Limitations: Tuning the Standards. Published in the Michigan Bar Journal.

Condominium Associations Get a Break--Or Do They? A discussion of the "Fairness to Condominiums and Cooperatives provision of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994 as it relates to Michigan Community Associations. Published in the Michigan Real Property Review.

Pre-foreclosure Fire Losses: A Trap for the Unwary Mortgagee. A review of the rules regarding casualty losses in the foreclosure process. Published in the Michigan Real Property Review.

Getting Your Money. A discussion of collection policies, procedures, and remedies available to a condominium association. This article is a digest of a presentation I made at the CAI-Michigan 1st Annual Conference and Trade Show.

What Every Community Association Should Know About Construction Liens. A discussion of the payment rules to minimize the risk of construction liens. Published in the Michigan Community Association News.

Securing Co-owner compliance: the Remedies Available to a Condominium Association. A discussion of the many remedies available to a board of directors, from the initial demand letter to foreclosure of the condominium lien and everything in between. Published in the Michigan Community Association News.

Board Responsibilities and Liabilities. The outline from a presentation made jointly with John Stevens at the CAI-Michigan 2nd Annual Conference and Trade Show, March 2001

Understanding Proxies, Absentee Ballots, and Now Electronic Ballots, an Article published in the Michigan Community Association News.

How to Use (and not Abuse) Legal Assistants, speech given before the Legal Assistants Association at Macomb County Community College.

The Importance of Taking and Keeping Good Minutes, article published in the Michigan Community Association News.
The forms of Business Ownership, a column published in the Olive Branch Press.

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