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The 2021 legislative session was one of the most active legislative years impacting California community association law. Pressures of the California affordable housing crisis...
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This article first appeared on Community Associations Institute (CAI) Ungated.
The continued presence of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. has been forcing h...
ESTABLISHING POLICIES FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM INSTALLATION REQUESTS
BY: JONATHAN R. DAVIS, ESQ.
This article first appeared in CAI-GRIE, Connect Magazine: 2021-Issue 3. To r...
Kelly, do you have any information regarding the expiration of CC&Rs? I’ve heard 20 years from the time of the recorded filing of the CC&Rs. My subdivision development of home...
[Apologies to Clement Clarke Moore]
'Twas the night before Christmas, and through the HOA community
Not a complaint was heard, and there existed pure unity;
The thank-you notes...
Over the many years I have been writing this column, the clear number one ranked dispute between homeowners and their associations regards records and information access. Thes...
Many HOA boards treat open forum as something to be endured, but if handled properly it can be a very positive feature of HOA meetings.
The law requires that all membership m...
From presidential debate stages to courtrooms to families to HOAs, civility is becoming so rare, it should be considered endangered. Differences of opinion are no longer allow...
Proxies are still used in most HOAs and continue to contribute to confusion and controversy during HOA elections.
A proxy is a document by which one association member auth
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In our culture, disagreement is mishandled more than ever before. However, disagreement is to be expected between directors of common interest developments (aka “HOAs”), and t...
You cannot handle it yourself.  Many mold consultants treat mold as if it were asbestos. Asbestos is truly dangerous. Unlike mold, when inhaled into the lungs, the body cann...
In 2000, right after we survived “Y2K,” a new “toxic mold” panic swept the country, and twenty years (of lawsuits and billions of dollars) later, major myths persist, frighten...
