New Neighborhoods: The Consumer's Guide to Condominium, Co-op, and HOA Living

New Neighborhoods is a non-fiction consumer's guide that details the most important aspects of buying or living in a Shared Ownership Community (condo, co-op, or HOA) as well as provides in-depth information on how to effectively serve as a board member or volunteer. It uses humor, anecdotes and a relaxed, conversational writing style to explain what has become a very difficult legal and social minefield.

The book guides readers through choosing their home; clarifies their rights and responsibilities; explains how associations operate, collect money and hold meetings and elections; and also details some of the crazy rules and regulations that have arisen around the country--and how to know when to follow them.

Gary Poliakoff, one of the world's foremost authorities on community association law, is the author of a nationally published treatise, The Law of Condominium Operations. Ryan Poliakoff is inaugural president of The Ocean Palms, a $100 million condominium property in South Florida.