Overview Most homeowners picture HOA discipline in terms of monetary fines, which is understandable. Most discipline does take that form. But HOAs in California hold a second, less familiar, and far narrower, power to suspend members’ privileges as a penalty. Many...
Overview As I’ve written and podcasted about on several occasions, under the Davis-Stirling Act, California HOAs can raise regular assessments up to 20% every year without requiring consent from the homeowners. A new law currently wending its way through the...
Overview California HOA members who are selling their homes almost always face a charge for the HOA-related disclosure documents the sale requires, and that charge often arrives as a single lump sum of several hundred to well over a thousand dollars. The seller has to...
Overview Parents and homeowners regularly ask whether their HOAs can force them, or their children, to wear a helmet while riding a bike, scooter, or skateboard within the common areas of their HOAs. The question usually surfaces when HOAs adopt helmet rules covering...
Overview Over the last several years, Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader (“ALPR” or “Flock camera”) cameras have spread from public streets into California HOA communities, and during this time period more and more HOAs across California have installed them...
Overview If your home is in a California fire-risk area, you’ve probably been told to clear flammable material away from the house. The newest fire-safety rules go further than the old ones. They zero in on the first five feet right around your home, the strip fire...
