HOAleader Video: Using Residents as Your Violation "Police Force"
HOAleader.com - Tip of the Week -
November 18, 2022
We've heard through the grapevine that an HOA has appointed residents to patrol the community to report potential violations to the manager. Then it's up to the manager to determine how to handle those
reports.
Is it smart to potentially pit residents against other residents in your community's effort to "patrol" your neighborhood for violations?
Click on the arrow below to hear a short clip in which HOAleader.com experts Joan Lewis-Heard, a senior associate at SwedelsonGottlieb in Los Angeles, who at any given time represents hundreds of condos and HOAs throughout California, and Alessandra Stivelman, who is board-certified in condo and planned
development law and a partner at Eisinger Law in Hollywood, Fla., discuss whether this practice of appointing members to walk the streets, so to speak, to eye potential governing document violations might raise more problems than it's intended to fix.
