1.   Arougheti, who is also a lawyer, said that until fairly recently it would have been unusual for a condominium board to demand such information from a buyer.

2.   Condominium boards do not have the same broad powers to reject applicants as co-op boards, and generally allow owners to rent out their units at will.

3.   Early on, residents took their complaints to their elected condominium board, which, in the first years, was dominated by the developers.

4.   How, then, could a condominium board of managers use the right of first refusal to control who buys into the building?

5.   In fact, that was just the solution devised by Hart after he was fined by his condominium board.

6.   Laila Abro of Warren, Mich., said she was dropped from her condominium board after a secret meeting.

7.   Meanwhile, a number of managing agents have recently begun to push condominium boards to add a line item to their annual budgets for the reserve fund.

8.   Nonetheless, Roseland spent the last year and a half negotiating with the township and the condominium board over how the project should proceed.

9.   Sarcastically, he warned directors of condominium boards to be alert to the possibility that the assembly might also try to take over their functions.

10.   That, she said, is because condominium boards generally have only limited power to block a sale.