Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Illinois

Yes. Your legal issues now involve the Association; it is a separate entity and unless your condominium's declaration and bylaws provide something else, are entitled to charge their attorney fees and costs to you when you involve them in what is effectively your own private legal matter because they are a necessary party to the foreclosure. Now the fees still have to be "reasonable" but today fees of $275 an hour and more are not unheard of.

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