by Laura White Brandow, Esq. Foreclosure Storm Looming Over Massachusetts Community Associations he law of unintended consequences is playing out big-time for Massachusetts condominiums. Much has been written here and elsewhere about the unintended — and certainly unanticipated — consequences of the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) new underwriting requirements for condominium loans, which have made it considerably more difficult to buy, sell or refinance condominiums. Less widely recognized, but equally dramatic in their impact, is a trio of Massachusetts court decisions that have tied an already badly gnarled foreclosure process into tighter, more complicated knots. T CONDO MEDIA • MAY 2012 51