HOAleader.com - Tip of the Week - October 10, 2014
Published: Fri, 10/10/14
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"Do Your Chores or Pay Up!" Can You Say This to Owners in Your HOA?
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In this week's tip, we discuss a question that an HOAleader.com member
posted on our discussion forum on an issue that's all too common, especially
at small, self-managed HOAs: When we "assign" work to owners, if they don't
do it, can we charge them to have it done?
"I've seen this situation with an association that had been created years
and years ago," says Duane McPherson, president of corporate development
for CiraConnect, which provides management companies, developers, and
large-scale self-managed associations with a cloud based software
solution and back-office shared service. "They developed a policy. It was X
amount of dollars per year for maintenance fees per member. But they also
provided the opportunity for members to work that off, and many did. But it
was a nightmare trying to keep track of who did what. They've done it for
years, and there's a lot of acrimony."
There's acrimony because this practice triggers many challenges:
* You need every owner to agree. "You'd have to determine that the
association would specifically be offering owners to provide in-kind
service that they could chose to do or not to do and state that if owners chose
not to do it, there would be a cost," says Debra A. Warren, CMCA, CCAM, PCAM,
senior vice president at Dallas-based Associa(r), a community association
management company with offices throughout the United States, Canada, and
Mexico. "If you don't have cooperation from everybody, you need to hire
someone and have everybody pay their proportionate share."
* You probably don't have the authority to insist owners do this work. Why
would you need every owner to agree? Because you can't force them to do this
work.
Find out why, along with other reasons our experts really think this is a
practice you can't, and shouldn't, pursue. Take a look at our new article:
http://www.hoaleader.com/members/1077.cfm
Best regards,
Matt Humphrey
President
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Recent articles posted at HOAleader.com:
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When HOA Owners Don't Do "Assigned" Work
An HOAleader.com reader writes, "We have an eight-owner unit, and the
landscape maintenance is volunteer; however half of the owners do all of the
work, and the others do absolutely zero work. My question is this: Can the
board assess owners for their equal portion of what the maintenance would
cost?"
Click here to read full article:
http://www.hoaleader.com/members/When-HOA-Owners-Dont-Do-Assigned-Work.cfm
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FHA Condo Update: Temporary Guidelines Extended
The Federal Housing Administration has extended the effective date of the
temporary guidelines used to determine whether condo associations
qualify for FHA-backed financing. This is good news. Here's why.
Click here to read full article:
http://www.hoaleader.com/members/FHA-Condo-Update-Temporary-Guidelines-Extended.cfm
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Can You Spot Where This HOA Went Wrong?
In this week's tip, we cull lessons from a very ugly dispute at an HOA. The
Quail Hill HOA in Irvine, Calif., has been the battleground for a war between
two factions who've vehemently disagreed over whether the HOA should allow
a local swim team to use one of the community's pools and whether it should
have contributed funds to the swim team.
Click here to read full article:
http://www.hoaleader.com/members/Can-You-Spot-Where-This-HOA-Went-Wrong.cfm
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How Not to Run Your HOA: Lessons of a Pitched HOA Battle
The Quail Hill HOA in Irvine, Calif., has been the battleground for a war
between two factions who've vehemently disagreed over whether the HOA
should allow a local swim team to use one of the community's pools and whether
it should have contributed funds to the swim team.
Click here to read full article:
http://www.hoaleader.com/members/How-Not-Run-Your-HOA-Lessons-Pitched-HOA-Battle.cfm
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California HOA Bill Tackles Challenge Common in Many States
In this week's tip, we discuss a bill pending before the California
legislature governing who's responsible to repair and replace
exclusive-use common elements. We also explain why the issue is important
not just in California but in states throughout the country.
Click here to read full article:
http://www.hoaleader.com/members/California-HOA-Bill-Tackles-Challenge-Common-in-Many-States.cfm
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