In this week's tip, we discuss owners who, perhaps trying to help, set forth all the many reasons you, as a condo or HOA board, are missing the mark.
An HOAleader.com reader wrote into the discussion board reporting that they—using their background in compliance—conducted an audit of their board's compliance with state law. The result was a notice to the board of its nearly 60 violations.
The condo's lawyer responded to our reader saying that the board had passed a rule permitting owners to ask the board only one question per month, and only in the form of a certified written inquiry. Unsurprisingly, our reader is asking for lawyer referrals.
Click on the arrow below to hear a short clip in which two of HOAleader.com's experts—Carrie M. Timko, counsel at Sandberg Phoenix in Clayton, Mo., who is licensed in Hawaii, Missouri, Illinois, and California and has represented community associations for 20 years, and David C. Swedelson, the principal at Swedelson
& Gottlieb, a law firm that represents associations throughout California—unpack the reasonableness and enforceability of that one-question-sent-by-certified-mail-per-month rule.
