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We Need a Stronger HOA Law

Why ​We Need a Stronger Law

As many homeowners will attest, an HOA can dictate limitless ways to harm homeowners, most especially to the glory of the “bottom line.” Here are a few examples:

  • HOA foreclosures on homes lacking only a few hundred dollars of unpaid HOA dues.

  • Withheld HOA financial records, including line-item details, raising suspicions of incompetence, embezzlement, negligence, kickbacks, and other unethical actions. HOAs are not directly accountable to anyone. 

  • No access to HOA Board of Director meetings—how is the Board spending HOA fees paid by the homeowner?

  • Widespread ignorance of HOA obligations and operations, which highlights the need for training home buyers, developers, and Board members, and possibly HOA managers on their individual responsibilities to the HOA.

  • Secret HOA subsidies to entice buyers, an almost routine practice by developers, which cause HOA fees and assessments to surge unexpectedly after a developer leaves the community.

  • Underfunded reserves, leaving homeowners unable to pay special assessments and costing them to lose their homes.

  • Contracts not scrutinized and not put to public bid, in one example costing homeowners $142,000 per year for years. (No one read the fine print.) 

  • Developers completing construction and remaining in control of an HOA for years, even decades—one developer controlling his community’s HOA for 40-plus years…and with no homeowner-Board members.

  • No inventory of community assets, which is needed to manage insurance, reserve funds, and maintenance. 
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There are more HOA issues, of course, but that is a start.
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