This time-honored tradition saves money and protects your clothes, but to your eagle-eyed HOA board, all those fabrics blowing in the breeze may not look “uniform.” Too bad, buckaroos: Since almost half of states protect your right to dry, any anti-clothesline additions to the covenants,...
Among the goals of an HOA is the implementation of community rules, known as covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&R). These rules are to preserve, maintain, and enhance the properties in a community while keeping it orderly and peaceful. It also collects HOA fees, used to take care ...
Board members receive authority to handle the day-to-day operations of the community—including managing finances, maintaining common areas, enforcing rules and regulations, collectingHOA payments, and creating annual budgets. The members may have additional duties based on their position on the Board....
As a board member, you are responsible for enforcing guidelines, rules, restrictions, and conditions, referred to as governing documents put in place by the developer of the community. Board members also have the authority to enact fines if there is a violation of one of the set rules. ...
Specifically, HOA management companies need to be knowledgeable about any given HOA “CC&R” or covenants, conditions, and restrictions. That means the management company needs to know what the HOA dictates in terms of things like shrub length, types of lawn grass, and where cars can be parke...
You need to interpret or enforce documents:Does your board need help with interpreting or enforcing your governing documents? HOA legal counsel can provide you with the support you need. You have run into land use issues or construction defects:When you run into these problems, you should get ...
The HOA board of directors, usually made up of elected homeowner volunteers, is tasked with scheduling regular meetings, creating budgets, hiring vendors and, most importantly, enforcing the community’s rules and regulations. These rules are typically outlined in the Covenants, Conditions and Restrict...
you can challenge the HOA in court. If the HOA is enforcing a rule against you but not on others, you could have a case of discrimination. The court could find that the HOA has been discriminatory or negligent in enforcing, or failing to enforce, its rules and could even declare that ...
Homeowners are required to pay these assessments as part of their obligations to the association, as outlined in the community's governing documents and covenants. Failure to pay assessments can result in penalties, fines, or even legal action by the board, including liens against the property. ...
An HOA usually has a board of directors or governors. These groups are elected to enforce and oversee the HOA’s rules and regulations. An HOA typically describes its rules asrestrictive covenantsin a document called a Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CC&Rs). CC&Rs set ...