Overview California’s Balcony Law exists because of a tragedy. In 2015, a wood balcony in Berkeley collapsed and killed six young people and injured several more, and investigators traced the failure to dry rot and failed waterproofing, the exact conditions a proper...
Overview California’s HOA fine rules cap most penalties at $100 per violation, but Civil Code 5850 carves out one exception that lets an HOA board impose a higher fine: a violation that may cause an adverse health or safety impact. That exception has quickly...
Overview Drones have become cheap, capable, and widely available, and HOA boards have noticed. What started as an occasional curiosity has become a growing enforcement trend. Some California HOA boards have begun deploying drones, or hiring vendors who operate them,...
Overview Most California HOA disputes involve conflicts between homeowners and their boards. This one is different. It involves people who have no relationship with the HOA at all, no ownership interest, no membership rights, and no legal basis for being there, yet...
Overview People familiar with my prior publications know where I stand on AB 130 and the chaos that it has caused under the guise of helping homeowners deal with abusive HOA fines. And those same people know that I’ve also written about AB 130’s positive attributes,...
