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Dear Kelly: Recently our board stopped dues collection for 6 months because they said some homeowners were experiencing financial hardship. The board has no plans to...
By Daniel C. Heaton
This article appeared in CAI-GRIE, Connect Magazine: 2021-Issue 2. To read more, click here.
5 Tips to Court Approval of Your CC&Rs Amendment
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Kelly, I wanted to know if you have any information in regard to the expiration of California CC&Rs. I’ve heard 20 years from the time of the recorded filing of...
Dear Kelly,
Apparently my HOA made a change in the CC&Rs. The HOA requires that any prospective tenants must be approved by the board, and that no applicant who has a...
Mr. Richardson:
I enjoy reading your column.
I recently bought a condo and was in the process of replacing the carpet with laminate flooring because of allergies. The HOA...
Mr. Richardson:
Can a non-resident owner be on the board? A board member moved but still stayed on the board while he rented his unit. Several homeowners opposed, but the...
Hi Kelly,
We (along with our neighbors) put out candidate and ballot measure signs prior to our elections. We looked into this several years ago and it appears that...
Assembly Member Ting from San Francisco has authored Assembly Bill 3182. In its original form it was a horrible bill but later amendments improved it from horrible to just...
Dear Kelly:
Our CC&Rs state that a rental must be at least 30 days. We have recently found several (web-based short-term) rentals in our complex that are just...
Kelly:
Residents in our HOA are encouraged to report rule violations. I and others have reported violations directly to the manager, primarily because the phone numbers...
By Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. CCAL
Handling conflict is a regular part of governing, managing, or advising HOAs, which are corporations but also neighborhoods. Unlike clubs...
Hi Kelly,
Perhaps you have an answer to the following case. A homeowner in our HOA (he might have a form of mental illness) is said to have harassed a new homeowner couple...
