Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Illinois

You should attend the next board meeting or if board meetings are not being regularly scheduled you should petition for an owners' meeting (you need 60% of unit ownership) to discuss this. If it is a security issue the action may have been perfectly justified. There are many "compromises" you make when you enter condo living -- it is a multi-family community. So ownership and mortgages are irrelevant. And your remedy would most likely not be in court -- that could take forever. Your remedy is to elect another board and reverse the policy. Sounds like you want to be active in your condo -- you should run for a board seat yourself. There are a lot of books and pamphlets out there for condo owners to understand how the condo works. Getting yourself educated on the processes will make you look good.

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