Kansas Condominium & Homeowner Association News

• Can your homeowners association make you to take your holiday lights down in Kansas? December 31, 2024
  It’s the time between Christmas and New Year’s where you ask yourself: How late is too late to take down your Christmas lights?  Some people may take them down the day after Christmas, but it’s not uncommon to see holiday lights on your street well into January. But if you have a homeowners association, deciding when you take down your holiday decorations may not be completely up to you.     Read the article…………………………….
• Overland Park takes aim at getting rid of racist property records (KS) November 15, 2024
  Overland Park has started the legal process of removing historically racist deed restrictions on residential property records in older parts of the city.  A century ago, racist covenants barred Black and Jewish people from owning homes in some communities but haven’t been enforceable for decades. Still, the offensive language has remained on property records like plats, deeds and neighborhood declarations.     Read the article…………………………….
• Lenexa approves permit for in-home daycare over HOA’s protest (KS) October 19, 2024
  The Lenexa City Council has approved a special permit for a proposed in-home daycare business over the objections of a homeowners association whose bylaws stipulate against it…….The homeowner’s request to open a daycare in her house prompted a vocal protest from the Oak Hill Homes Association, the bylaws for which don’t allow for a business to be run out of a home.    Read the article…………………………….
• 150 geese were a ‘nuisance’ in this Kansas City suburb. So homeowners had them killed (KS) July 19, 2024
  The summer days have turned quieter — all too quiet for some — at Lake Waukomis, the tiny waterside town just north of Kansas City. And there is a honking good explanation:   All their geese are dead.   Read the article…………………………….
• Battling their HOA, Wichita homeowners win key ruling at Kansas Court of Appeals | Opinion May 28, 2024
  Props to the Kansas Court of Appeals for respecting homeowners’ rights — and the English language — in a dispute between a Wichita couple and their homeowners association over who has to fix the fence.   Read the article…………………………….
• New Kansas law will allow homeowners to wipe away racist language from property deeds May 2, 2024
  Racially restrictive deeds and exclusionary covenants are still scattered across the Kansas City metro, embedded deep in the bylaws of homes associations and subdivisions’ rules, even though they can no longer be enforced. Now, property owners have a way to remove the language from the documents.   Read the article…………………………….

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Kansas Condominium & Homeowner Association Articles

• Kansas Association Votes to Amend HOA Voting Procedures
  The Board of Directors of Forest Lakes Master Association sought to amend the HOA voting procedures set forth in the Association’s Declaration. The Board requested all members vote in person or by proxy at the meeting they called to consider the amendment. With concern that they would not get full participation, the Board also announced that if they did not get enough votes at the meeting, they would go door-to-door for 30 days following the meeting to get the required ...
• The Million Dollar Flower Pot Fiasco
  No matter how innocent or small the violation, never underestimate the possibility of it blowing up and costing both the association and owner far more money than it ever should have. Case in point: Avignon Villa Homes and Mr. Jim Hildebrand. This dispute involves a Kansas community where an owner decided to fight for his right and freedom to install various improvements without going through the required architectural approval process or following the rules in the community.     Read the ...
• CAI Best Practices: Ethics
  Simply put, when someone is employing ethics, he or she recognizes what is right and what is wrong and is choosing to do the right thing; however, as a great deal of business ethics literature will attest, “the right thing” is not always straightforward. For example, most ethical dilemmas in the workplace are not simply questions of “Should Bob steal from Jack?” or “Should Jack lie to his boss?”
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• Strategic Planning
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• Reserve Studies/Management
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• Green Communities
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Kansas Laws

Uniform Common Interest Owner Bill of Rights Act

Uniform Common Interest Owner Bill of Rights:  Background

Apartment Ownership Act (Condo’s)

Townhouse Ownership Act

Acts Against Discrimination  (Removal of certain restrictive covenants)

Common Interest Communities (UCIOBORA) Checklist.

Kansas Condominium & Homeowner Association Resources

Homes Association of Kansas City

The Greater Kansas City area has a proud tradition of neighborhoods and a strong network of homes associations to protect that legacy. Homes Associations of Kansas City (HAKC) is an alliance of 53 homeowners associations. HAKC includes associations on both sides of State Line.