Overview Summer water bills climb, local watering restrictions tighten, and more California homeowners let a thirsty lawn go brown or replace it with low-water landscaping. Then the violation letter shows up, demanding that the homeowner restore a green lawn or face a...
Overview Your HOA announces a major special assessment. Perhaps there was a fire or another disaster, or perhaps there was some other major loss of the common areas. Regardless, every owner owes a large sum, and owes it soon. For many homeowners, that announcement...
Overview A homeowner with a claim against the HOA almost always wants the HOA to turn that claim over to its insurance carrier. And when an HOA refuses to do that, such homeowners frequently approach us to determine whether they can force that to happen. We’ve...
Overview When a California homeowner opens an HOA account statement and finds that the HOA has charged its legal fees to that account, the threshold question is whether the HOA had any authority to put them there. After all, it should go without saying that an HOA...
Overview Based on the volume of comments I’ve received from our Reddit account and listeners to my podcast, HOA HELL, who bluntly write things like “Fuck HOAs,” “You’re stupid to buy into an HOA,” “Who would ever live in an HOA community,” and “HOAs should be banned,”...
Overview Effective January 1, 2026, the Legislature made it clear that California HOA members were entitled to receive a copy of the inspection reports mandated by SB 326, California’s “Balcony Law.” That entitlement reached a category of documents many bad HOAs would...
