Documents & Rules – General

Love it or Hate it, Your Community’s Governing Documents Reign Supreme

The host of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver recently made waves by criticizing common ownership community standards and enforcement…

12 months ago

East Lansing Homeowners Can Now Formally Disavow Racist Property Covenants (MI)

Old property restrictions for around 100 homes in the Brookfield Heritage Neighborhood explicitly forbid sales to anyone who is not…

1 year ago

Backyard Event Rentals: Problems Posed for Homeowner Associations

Homeowners may wish to engage in backyard event rentals to earn supplemental income. For example, some homeowners may rent out…

1 year ago

Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions: breaks down the rules that govern HOAs

Across the United States, over 74 million people live within a homeowner association (HOA) community, according to the Foundation for…

1 year ago

Common HOA Rules: How to Find Them and What to Know

If you are shopping for a home right now or are planning on doing so shortly, you are going to…

1 year ago

BIAS in Our Communities: Strategies for Creating Stronger Communities and Avoiding Liability

......Read the article.............................we consider specific areas of our written documents and governance procedures where bias may be found and look…

1 year ago

WA bill to address housing discrimination, including previously in some Longview neighborhoods

Proposed legislation to create a program helping first-time homebuyers historically barred by racial covenants is moving forward despite objections to…

1 year ago

The Declaration

How are the elements of a community defined? What determines the components of the common areas versus homeowner-owned areas? Where…

1 year ago

Are You SURE Those are the Recorded CC&Rs?

As part of the process of creating an insurance proposal, I read through the CC&Rs for the community to confirm…

1 year ago

HOA Homefront — The misunderstood ‘exclusive use common area’ (CA)

The typical condominium project consists of three categories of property — the “separate interest” (normally called the “unit”), the “common…

1 year ago