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Better to Be Safe than Sorry: Community Maintenance, Repair & Insurance

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 |
8:00 AM - 8:00 AM EST |

About Event

Community Maintenance, Repairs and Insurance Students will distinguish between association and owner maintenance obligations and be introduced to the process of selecting vendors, working through a bid process and negotiating contract provisions for association maintenance and repair obligations. Students will compare and contrast insurance requirements for different types of community associations and evaluate an association’s maintenance and repair obligations when there is no insurance coverage and when there is coverage. Lastly, students will explore how to successfully resolve materialmens lien disputes and contract disputes according to Georgia’s Right to Repair Act.

Speaker

Jamie Lyons, Esq.

Jamie Platt Lyons is a senior partner at the law firm of Lazega & Johanson, LLC with a passion for teaching and a sense of humor and energy rarely matched in the legal field.

She has an active legal practice working with Boards of Directors, community association professionals, and developers/builders. In addition to transactional work, Jamie has practiced in the litigation, collection, and residential real estate closing fields as well, giving her an unusual breadth and depth of legal experience that brings value to her clients and students.

A past President and Board member of the Georgia Real Estate Educators Association and has obtained her Gold Standard Instructor Certification from the National Real Estate Educator’s Association. She also is past Chair and Secretary and continues to serve on the Georgia Real Estate Commission’s Education Advisory Committee.

She is also a past Board Member of the Community Associations Institute of Georgia and has chaired and served on numerous committees since becoming involved in CAI in 1993. She is honored to be one of the few Georgia attorneys admitted to the industry’s prestigious College of Community Association Lawyers.

Jamie regularly teaches and publishes about timely topics related to community associations and has received many meaningful awards for her classes and her commitment to the community association field and the real estate industry.

Outside her career, Jamie has also dedicated herself to leadership and service. For more than 20 years, she has served in numerous leadership roles and is a past President of Congregation Etz Chaim in East Cobb. She is also the past President and current interim President of the Cornell Alumni Association of Atlanta.

Most importantly, Jamie is married to Jonathan Lyons, a residential mortgage lender. Together, they raised two fabulous children.