Phony Parking Violation Letters In Condominiums

Condominium living has its advantages and challenges – one such challenge is often parking. Today, people move into these communities with several vehicles in tow and in condominiums, there is limited space in the parking garages and parking areas for unit owners and their guests. Sometimes this results in unit owners taking parking, that violates the terms of their condominium documents, into their own hands by anonymously drafting violation letters as if they were from the condominium association and taping the letters to the subject vehicles. We have seen recipients of these phony parking violation letters claim that this practice is "a federal offense to impersonate an agent of the management company or the condominium's board of directors." While this practice does not rise to the level of an actionable federal or local offense (and would not even constitute criminal vandalism if the letters are easily removable and do not damage the vehicles on which they are