Bellevue Condominium Lawyers | Oseran Hahn P.S.

The client journey

Wherever your board is in the life of the community.

Every community moves through the same four chapters — only the names on the board change. Pick the chapter you’re working through.

▍ 01 / Forming & Transition

From declarant to a board that runs itself.

Whether the community is brand-new or finally taking the keys from the developer, the first board faces a long list of inheritances: declarations, plats, reserve studies, warranties, and the first round of operating decisions that set the tone for the next twenty years. We get boards organized, oriented, and ready for real work.

→Developer-to-owner transition counsel
→Declaration, bylaws, and rules review (and rewrites where needed)
→Initial board training, fiduciary duties, and meeting protocol
→Reserve study review and capital-funding strategy
→Warranty, defect-claim, and developer-handover analysis

▍ 02 / Governing & Day-to-Day

The quiet work of keeping a community running.

Most board meetings are not crises. They’re budgets, rule amendments, ARC decisions, vendor contracts, and the messages that have to go out to the membership tonight. We’re the lawyer the manager calls Tuesday morning — before something turns into a special meeting.

→Board governance, executive sessions, and meeting minutes
→Rules, regulations, and architectural review (ARC) decisions
→Vendor contracts, management agreements, and insurance review
→Membership communications and notice protocols
→Open meeting / records-request compliance under Washington law

▍ 03 / Assessments & Enforcement

Collections, covenants, and the harder conversations.

Boards inherit decisions that someone made years ago and have to enforce them with people they’ll see at the pool. We handle the collections work, the covenant-violation files, and the hearing process — with the goal of resolving as much as possible without ever filing suit, and litigating effectively when we have to.

→Assessment collections, liens, and judicial foreclosure
→Covenant violations: hearings, fines, and corrective work
→Owner disputes — mediation, arbitration, and trial when needed
→Short-term-rental, parking, and pet-rule enforcement
→Fair-housing and accommodation-request counsel

▍ 04 / Construction Defects & Special Matters

The case that defines a community.

Construction-defect, insurance-coverage, and major-repair matters are the work that can split a community in half — or, handled carefully, fund the reserves for a decade. We’ve represented boards in defect mediation, coverage disputes, and the harder governance moments that come after.

→Construction-defect claims & developer warranty actions
→Insurance coverage and claims-handling disputes
→Special assessments, loans, and capital-repair financing
→Receivership, troubled-association, and turnaround counsel
→Mediation, arbitration, and trial work for boards

Counsel for the boards who answer to their neighbors.

Wherever your board is in the life of the community.

From declarant to a board that runs itself.

The quiet work of keeping a community running.

Collections, covenants, and the harder conversations.

The case that defines a community.

The attorneys you’ll actually work with.

Nick Pleasants

James Clark

Thomas Hansen

Connor Rankin

Teruyuki Olsen

Paul Spencer

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Recent work.

A 96-unit condominium resolves a multi-year defect claim.

Refreshed declaration and rules for a 30-year-old HOA.

Long-running delinquencies brought current across a portfolio.

Short-term-rental rule survives a covenant challenge.

On a board and need counsel that gets it? Let’s talk.