Condo & HOA News

Volusia County homeowner is facing legal action from his homeowners association after erecting a flagpole in his yard, without what the HOA says was the proper approval. The Countryside Homeowners Association filed a lawsuit in April, claiming the homeowner violated community rules by installing the pole without permission. The flagpole, located along the 900 block […]

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Q: My condominium association recently hired a security service to post guards at our gated community’s entrance and patrol the grounds. The board’s goal in hiring them was to address owners’ concerns about the rising number of crimes in our area and to reduce the likelihood of crimes happening in our community by having a […]

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In the United States, in 2023, about 65% of new single-family homes were built within Homeowner Associations, up from 49% in 2009, according to the U.S. Census.  I became familiar with this housing concept after researching the differences between Canadian and United States housing after the housing crisis in 2008.   Read the article…………………………….

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Q: I serve on the board of my condominium association, and we recently received statutory inquiry requests from a homeowner. What is this?   Read the Q&A………………………………..

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One year ago, Supervisor Mark Farrell predicted success for his proposal to let the owners of tenancy-in-common units convert their properties to condominiums in exchange for paying a city fee. This Tuesday, Farrell’s peers are expected to approve his legislation.  But in an odd political twist, Farrell no longer supports his own legislation, which tenant […]

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Homeowners in Kearns’ Field of Dreams neighborhood are concerned about an increase in Homeowners Association fees.  Some neighbors said when they bought their home, they were paying $20 a month in HOA fees — but in the latest increase, some may have to pay $300 or more.   Read the article…………………………….

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Months of effort by neighbors in a Longmont community to save a prairie dog colony from extermination have paid off. The homeowner association board will soon decide whether the animals will be relocated or allowed to remain on the land.  Read the article…………………………….

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There are new developments in a story we first brought you earlier this month.  The city of West Palm Beach had notified residents at a local community that their condominium association had not been paying their water bill and the city would turn off the water on Monday, April 28.  That situation has now changed.  […]

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Q: My condominium association recently hired a security service to post guards at our gated community’s entrance and patrol the grounds. The board’s goal in hiring them was to address owners’ concerns about the rising number of crimes in our area and to reduce the likelihood of crimes happening in our community by having a […]

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A new HOA management company is challenging a display of patriotism for Memorial Day at a woman’s home in Surprise. Kendall Rasmusson has flags, banners and other decorations on her front lawn. On her garage door, she has a magnetic poster with the picture of her late brother.  Read the article…………………………….

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Like many condo owners in Florida, residents at the Heron Condominiums in West Kendall were expecting to receive a special assessment of some kind. The mandatory 40-year recertification inspection is the result of new regulations for condominiums in the state following the deadly 2021 condo collapse in Surfside, Florida.   Read the article…………………………….

The post ‘Why so much?’: These Florida condo owners fear losing their homes after being handed a shocking $3.5 million assessment first appeared on Community Associations Network.

Question: Recently our HOA board instituted a $250 fee to those owners who rent, $500 if they rent to more than one tenant during the year. Can they institute a charge to only a select segment of the community? I suspect most, if not all, board members do not rent. I have asked if there […]

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A 15-word proposed change to the Coconut Creek City Charter that would prohibit city commissioners from serving on a homeowner or condominium association set off an impassioned defense from Mayor Jackie Railey at Thursday’s city commission meeting.   Read the article…………………………….

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Real-estate agent Jaclyn Bild was trying to sell a Miami condo recently when she got a request: Could a prospective buyer have a video call with the condo association president? The interested buyer wanted to ask the board president about the building’s budget and whether there might be future costly repairs.    Read the article…………………………….

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When Bill Stewart bought his home in Houston’s upscale Walden neighborhood, he expected peace and quiet alongside an idyllic lake. What he didn’t expect was a battle of signs, arguments with neighbors and a cease-and-desist letter.   Read the article…………………………….

The post ‘You are despised’: Houston homeowner locked in bitter feud with revolving door of short-term renters next door (TX) first appeared on Community Associations Network.

Last month, 7News cameras caught foul balls flying over the netting at Oakdale High School in Frederick County, smashing into homes and crashing into traffic.  There’s so many foul balls — parents are banning their kids from playing in their backyards.   Read the article…………………………….

The post Homeowners say FCPS’ options to keep foul baseballs from damaging homes are swing & miss (MD) first appeared on Community Associations Network.

Q: We recently discovered that the replacement costs for some of our common elements are much higher due to material shortages and labor costs. Now that we know the reserves are not correct, can the Board notify the owners and increase the reserve assessment to account for the increases?   Read the Q&A………………………………..

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An explosion right off Gammon Road left the Windsor Condominiums uninhabitable. Two years later, the condos sit surrounded by a chain-link fence — and Aubree and Cole Yanchik are stuck paying two mortgages…… “We were promised in the beginning, a year, ‘we’re going to try to get this done in a year,’ and then it’s […]

The post ‘It’s been two years’: Displaced Gammon Road condo residents finally updated on planned repair work (WI) first appeared on Community Associations Network.

I’ve met many local condominium owners who would like to go solar for their electrical power but don’t know where to begin. Not having much advice to give them, I researched how condo owners might take advantage of solar energy.   Read the article…………………………….

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All told, the sale marks a new chapter for a golf course that has been closed for nearly a decade, saw its boarded-up clubhouse destroyed in a fire by suspected arsonists, and whose now-outgoing owner pushed the property into bankruptcy protection twice and battled in court with the surrounding homeowners’ association.   Read the article…………………………….

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