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Exclusive Use Common Area: “Maintain” vs. “Repair and Replace” (CA)

On January 1, 2017, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act maintenance presumptions change. Right now, Civil Code section 4775 states that, unless an association’s CC&Rs provide otherwise, the association is presumed responsible for repairing, replacing and maintaining the common area and each owner is presumed responsible for maintaining the owner’s exclusive use common area. Many associations assumed the terms “repair,” “replace,” and “maintain” were interchangeable.    Read the article………………………………..

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