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...
Overview California homeowners can gather with their neighbors in the clubhouse, the recreation hall, or anywhere else in the common area to talk about what their HOAs are doing, and their HOA boards can’t stop them or charge them for the privilege. Civil Code 4515...
Overview Many California homeowners who discover an automated license plate reader (“ALPR”) at their community entrance assume that the cameras exist to catch package thieves and car burglars. What many homeowners don’t know is that the Flock cameras their HOAs...
Overview Reserve funds sit in a separate account for a reason. Homeowners pay into that account every month through their regular assessments (or through special assessments aimed at funding reserves), and the money accumulates over years to cover the expensive work...
Overview So many homeowners across California open violation notices for conduct their HOAs ignored for a decade. The paint color, the fence height, the boat in the driveway, the tree in the side yard. Half the neighborhood does the same thing, nobody received a...
