Overview A trending issue in California HOA law involves senior citizens leaving their adult children or grandchildren title to properties inside senior citizen communities (e.g., a 55+ community). California’s senior citizen housing statutes let 55+ communities...
Overview Homeowners frustrated with their HOAs increasingly take their complaints online. Unfortunately, a steady stream of really ignorant and really bad advice has told many to shut up or pay the price. The latest example comes from an article that sought the...
Overview Most homeowners picture HOA discipline in terms of monetary fines, which is understandable. Most discipline does take that form. But HOAs in California hold a second, less familiar, and far narrower, power to suspend members’ privileges as a penalty. Many...
Overview As I’ve written and podcasted about on several occasions, under the Davis-Stirling Act, California HOAs can raise regular assessments up to 20% every year without requiring consent from the homeowners. A new law currently wending its way through the...
Overview California HOA members who are selling their homes almost always face a charge for the HOA-related disclosure documents the sale requires, and that charge often arrives as a single lump sum of several hundred to well over a thousand dollars. The seller has to...
