Overview Imagine the shock of opening a notice from your HOA telling you that you owe a special assessment of $26,000. Or $49,000. Your first payment is due in 30 days, and it doesn’t matter whether you write one check, split it into two payments, or tack an extra...
Overview Homeowners get angry at their HOAs for good reasons. A director says something false and offensive about you at a board meeting or in posting to the members. The manager tells your neighbors that you’re delinquent when you’re not. The HOA sends...
Overview California HOAs routinely restrict recreational vehicles (RVs), boats, trailers, oversized vehicles, and commercial vehicles, and most of those restrictions are enforceable. Trouble starts when officious HOA boards stretch recreational vehicle restrictions to...
Overview California condo owners spent the past couple of years absorbing record-high special assessments and dues increases that seemed to have come out of nowhere. Some of that traces back to California’s insurance crisis, the balcony law (SB 326), and deferred...
Overview California is in the middle of an insurance crisis, and both good and bad HOAs are caught in it alongside the homeowners who live in them. Large carriers have pulled out of the state entirely or sharply limited what they’ll cover, and coverage that used to be...
Overview California HOAs can foreclose on a home over unpaid assessments, and they can do it without ever setting foot in a courtroom. The Davis-Stirling Act lets an HOA record a lien against a homeowner’s property and then sell that property through a trustee, the...
