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Kelly,
The management company told us at a recent meeting that the HOA was due over $130,000 in past due HOA assessments. Therefore they increased our assessments 18%. WOW!
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Common interest development associations are alliances of owners agreeing to share a tract of property and share the control and costs of that property. That sharing of expens...
Kelly Richardson,
Non-occupied owners were sent a form that they must sign stating, “I acknowledge that I will be held responsible for the actions of my tenants and/or gues
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Mr. Richardson,
If a homeowner is in arrears on HOA dues and the association has put a lien on the property, can the HOA proceed with Small Claims Court before a foreclosur
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Dear Kelly,
I really like your column. I’m on an HOA board and pride myself in keeping up with HOA legislation. I learned something new in your reply to a recent question.
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Hello Mr. Richardson,
I attended a Board meeting in which the opening of ballots was on the agenda. The president mentioned that a list with the names of all the people tha
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Dear Kelly,
You recently addressed a question about HOAs granting “exclusive use” to those individual owners requesting expanded control and use of parcels contiguous to th
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Mr. Richardson,
What can a board do about a board member who never shows up? We have a board member who hasn’t attended a meeting in over a year. When I bring th
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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 the bi
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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 clean
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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 homeowners.
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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 boa
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