Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Illinois

I own a townhouse that I lease to two tenants. During the first year of the lease, the homeowner association, with prodding from the management company, adopted new rules regarding leases that added new requirements for new leases. These requirements include certain documentation and a fee for each lease and renewal. The adopted rules exempted existing leases, of which mine was one, but did not address whether renewals of those lease would be subject to the new requirements. I attended the board meeting at which the new rules were adopted and asked for clarification of this issue. I received no answer. Since then, I have renewed the lease four times with the same tenants, and when asked for the required documentation and the fee, I explained that my lease was in effect prior to the adoption of the new rules, and therefore not subject to them according to the paragraph in them that exempts existing leases. The management company has accepted this reasoning until now. For the last renewal, they are demanding the fee, but not the other items listed in the requirements. Does the management companies failure to collect the fee in the past constitute a waiver of their right to do so now?

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