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Dear Kelly,
Our management company also owns a maintenance company and seems to get all the work in the HOA. The board awarded him a paint contract after he received...
Dear Kelly,
The law has changed due to the drought. Because of that, California Civil code section 4736(b) puts limitations on using a pressure washing for...
Dear Kelly,
We are in the process of assembling an electronic address file. I am interested in your recent comments about obtaining quorum proxies from absentee...
Dear Mr. Richardson,
I am new to the HOA concept and have thoughts about running for the board. However, there seems to be two concepts out there about the power of the...
Dear Kelly,
As the financial officer of my homeowners association, I am concerned about how we can collect our back dues when the owner goes into...
Dear Kelly,
We have no management company in our HOA for over a year. One board member is running the whole show, who is the secretary, treasurer, paid gardener and...
Hi Kelly,
Must the board get a majority vote of homeowners to make their community common areas non-smoking? If the board got the vote would an amendment have to be added...
Dear Kelly,
Managers’ pay: commission vs. non-commission. What should a board know about this when working with a management company? Is it a practice for...
Dear Sir,
Can the board limit the percentage of renters in a common interest development?
If a certain percentage is reached, will that invalidate our senior citizen...
2014 was the first year of the relocated and reorganized Davis Stirling Act, but the legislators did not give the Act much rest. At least 32 bills proposed in the 2013-2014...
When buying a common interest property, you automatically become a member of an association. Here are a “baker’s dozen” of items to consider first:
1....
Dear Kelly,
Our HOA president has been working for one of the vendors that we use for some of the work around our complex. He did not disclose this information to anyone...
