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...
Overview I’ve received several questions recently from homeowners about write-in candidates in California HOA elections. One homeowner wrote to tell me that his HOA had just announced its election results, and that a woman who wrote her own name in took a board seat...
Overview Buying into a California HOA doesn’t make new homeowners responsible for the previous owner’s unpaid fines, but it can leave them responsible for the previous owner’s unfinished work. The Davis-Stirling Act splits the question by the kind of problem. Money...
