Class action targets RealManage, HomeWiseDocs for 'unconscionable fees' charged to Home owners.

A group of Chicago condominium owners has launched another class-action lawsuit over what they call “unconscionable fees” charged to condo owners to access documents they need to complete the sale of their units. On Jan. 20, named plaintiffs Katherine M. Atkins and Zane Fulton, each a DuPage County resident who formerly owned condominiums in suburban Cook County, filed their putative class action complaint in Cook County Circuit Court against vendors RealManage and HomeWiseDocs. The plaintiffs are represented in the action by a collection of attorneys, including Thomas A. Zimmerman Jr., and others with the Zimmerman Law Offices, of Chicago; Rusty Payton, of Payton Legal Group, of Chicago; Arthur C. Czaja, of Niles; and Joseph S. Davidson, of the Law Offices of Joseph P. Doyle, of Schaumburg. The complaint takes aims at hundreds of dollars in fees the vendors allegedly charged to Atkins, Fulton, and other owners in