Overview Discovering signs that HOA funds may be missing or misused can leave homeowners unsure how to respond. Embezzlement inside an HOA is serious misconduct, but suspicions alone do not establish what actually happened. Escalating too quickly can create...
Overview HOA embezzlement rarely announces itself openly. Most homeowners never see someone literally taking money from the association’s accounts. Instead, the problem usually reveals itself through patterns that stop making sense. Dues keep rising even though the...
Overview Most homeowners assume HOA embezzlement must involve complicated financial tricks or sophisticated accounting fraud. In reality, the opposite is usually true. HOA embezzlement almost always relies on simple tactics that work because nobody is paying close...
Overview Few records create more tension inside an HOA than the membership list. Access to that list allows homeowners to communicate with one another about governance, circulate information, organize reform efforts, and coordinate votes. For boards that prefer to...
Overview An HOA that refuses to produce records is not confused about the law. It is counting on you not to enforce it. If you’ve been reading the Fact Sheets in this Civil Code 5200 series (this is #7 of 8), then you already know that Civil Code 5200 gives California...
Overview Civil Code 5200 gives California homeowners the right to inspect and copy a lot of HOA records, but that right is not entirely free of cost. HOAs are permitted to recover certain limited expenses associated with producing records. The problem is that bad HOAs...
