Running a business in a residential area – Check your zoning first!
You decide to open a home business, or perhaps you are about to buy a house in order to run a business from it. You apply for rezoning but the council is taking forever to decide (although it has happily started charging you rates and taxes on the business tariff), your immediate neighbours are supportive, […]
HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATIONS: CAN YOU BAN A HOME BUSINESS?
“…there is nothing contained in our law which prevents a property owner from agreeing to a limitation of its rights…” (Extract from judgment, below) All Home Owners Associations (“HOAs”) and their home owner members should be aware of a recent High Court judgment addressing the knotty problem of a HOA’s powers to bar an owner […]