Overview Plenty of California homeowners want to swap natural grass for artificial turf to help the environment, cut their water bills, end their mowing chores, and keep a green yard through every drought. Then their HOA denies the request because an HOA board member...
Overview A San Diego County HOA has been threatening homeowners with fines for flying the American flag in front of their own homes, and those homeowners have refused to back down. Their fight has now drawn national coverage, days before the country marks its 250th...
Overview California law hands HOAs a quiet power that bad HOA boards have learned to weaponize. When a seat opens up, the board can usually fill it by appointment, with no vote of the members at all. That power exists for a sensible reason, which is to keep an HOA...
Overview It’s close to axiomatic in California HOA law that only members may vote in HOA elections. Homeowner-side attorneys say it, HOA-side attorneys say it, and the Davis-Stirling Act says it. Yet a powerful exception cuts straight through that rule, and far too...
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...
