Overview Most homeowners assume HOA embezzlement must involve complicated financial tricks or sophisticated accounting fraud. In reality, the opposite is usually true. HOA embezzlement almost always relies on simple tactics that work because nobody is paying close...
Overview Few records create more tension inside an HOA than the membership list. Access to that list allows homeowners to communicate with one another about governance, circulate information, organize reform efforts, and coordinate votes. For boards that prefer to...
Overview An HOA that refuses to produce records is not confused about the law. It is counting on you not to enforce it. If you’ve been reading the Fact Sheets in this Civil Code 5200 series (this is #7 of 8), then you already know that Civil Code 5200 gives California...
Overview Civil Code 5200 gives California homeowners the right to inspect and copy a lot of HOA records, but that right is not entirely free of cost. HOAs are permitted to recover certain limited expenses associated with producing records. The problem is that bad HOAs...
Overview Civil Code 5200 gives California homeowners broad rights to inspect and copy a surprisingly large number of HOA records. That breadth is one of the Davis-Stirling Act’s strengths and a great tool for homeowners. But the fact that the law is broadly written...
