Overview When your HOA denies your architectural application, whether for a remodel, addition, or even a simple exterior change, it can feel personal. But California law does not allow HOAs to act on personal preference. Under Civil Code 4765 of the Davis-Stirling...
Overview California’s Open Meeting Act, found within California’s Davis-Stirling Act, is the primary law that governs how HOA boards in California must conduct their board business. It requires that meetings be open to all members, that notices and agendas be provided...
Overview The Davis-Stirling Act includes within it a set of Civil Code sections euphemistically called the Open Meeting Act (Civil Code 4900–4955). These laws are designed to keep HOA boards transparent and accountable the association’s members by ensuring that HOA...
Overview If your condo loan just collapsed because the condo project that you’re looking to buy into is flagged as “Unavailable” in Fannie Mae’s system, you already know what that means: no conventional loan, no conforming financing, and a deal that’s suddenly dead....
Overview UPDATED ON 12/23/25 Here we are again. Another year, another round of new laws from our industrious hive in Sacramento. Every January, business owners, landlords, and HOA members brace for the latest batch of mandates, prohibitions, and procedural...
Overview Losing an HOA lawsuit can be frustrating and expensive. But if you think that the trial court got it wrong, and if the issue is important enough to you, then you’ll be glad to hear that just because a trial court issues a final judgment against a homeowner,...
