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  by Bestm, about 1 year ago
  Our HOA was built in 1960-1970’s, it is old, no money was set aside to do maintenance and repair till about 8 years ago. We had to do assessments for roofs and many were not happy. Some moved away. Other people have bought places here because they were cheaper than the other newer ones, now they are complaining our HOA fees are too high, but we still do not have the money needed to do upgrades on fence and replace roofs, replace and repair asphalt driveways, maintain pool and landscape, so we have to do assessments which upsets people. I... Continue reading
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  Best Community Financial Practices or Narrow Self Interests?

  by Neuromate, about 1 year ago

  Best Community Financial Practices or Narrow Self-Interests?

  The Covenant of our HOA, as with so many others, directs the Board of Directors to uphold a fiduciary responsibility to safeguard the financial well-being of the whole community. Really? Consider the following story about our HOA:

  • Since the completion of its’ building in1982 only 2 Reserve Fund Studies have been conducted; both studies rated the Reserve Fund as being 17% sufficiently funded to avoid risking a Special Assessment.
  • There have been no increases in HOA fees in 13 of the past 15 years. This record, despite growing evidence of infrastructure deterioration, neglected... Continue reading
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  HOA's able to skirt ADA compliance

  by CShockr, about 1 year ago
  Even after 30 years to comply with the ADA in our 55+ community, our board still skates around ADA compliance by stating they do not have to provide reasonable accommodations for disabled individuals in areas they claim to be "for residents only." It's time to close this loophole and force HOA's to fully comply with the ADA in all areas of housing and common spaces.
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  HOA Board of Managers Fails to Comply With Governing Documents

  by Shadow, about 1 year ago

  The Board of Managers of our HOA recently decided to cancel the Annual Members Meeting. Both the date and location of the Meeting as required by the Association Bylaws. Then they went further and denied Members the use of Proxies; established a new date for the Meeting several months from the required one; announced they would no longer allow Members to recomend changes to the Bylaws from the floor and hold the Meeting-not in person as required in the Bylaws, but by Zoom attendance. Substantiating and verifying who was qualified to vote and procedures to ensure proper voter validation was... Continue reading
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  Flooding for the past several years

  by iceytina21, about 1 year ago
  My husband and I moved into an hoa community in October 2022. We were completely unaware that there has been ongoing flooding concerns happening since at least as far back as 2016. This past year, we have had a couple instances of water filling our window well and spilling out into our finished carpeted basement. The second time this happened was June 2023. It hailed and rained very hard, and within 15 minutes our entire window well was filled, and water was very liberally waterfalling into our basement. It filled up a corner section so much that water was standing... Continue reading
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  HOA Task Force Input

  by Frank Wille, about 1 year ago
  I am the Secretary of a small self-managed HOA in Colorado Springs. There are many types and sizes of HOAs in Colorado. No doubt there are bad actors. However legislation that impacts all HOAs fails to recognize the good ones. One size does not fit all. Based on this latest status update, it appears the charter of the Task Force commissioned by HB 23-1105 has expanded. Many of these "stories" are unsubstantiated complaints that make me question the credibility of the data that will be used to generate the final report of the Task Force and potential legislation.
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  Legislative overreach

  by lynndougherty, about 1 year ago

  The Colorado Legislature has already over regulated HOAs with the recent laws that have been enacted. Every HOA has been required to pay attorney fees just to make sure their documents comply with these new laws. The cost to our HOA was $500. Complying with these new laws could be even more costly. The homeowners end up paying these additional costs. Legislators need to realize that all HOAs are not out take advantage of their members. Our HOA Board is very cognizant of its responsibility to the homeowners. Our Board strives to be transparent and maintain open communications with all... Continue reading
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  Small HOA strapped by HB22-1137

  by George, about 1 year ago

  Some homeowners do not pay their Dues or noncompliance fines. Our HOA assessment dues are only $25 annually. We have no common areas no maintenance performed by the HOA. 146 homeowners. Our Bylaws, Declaration of Covenants and Reasonable Governance Policy are concerned only with Compliance to the Covenants and Architectual guidelines. We have a self-governed volunteer board, monthly board meetings and a members Annual meeting. With the passing of HB13-1276 and now HB22-1137 the governing policies cannot be rewritten in a way that our HOA has any way of collecting past due assessments. Owing $25 dollars for the year the... Continue reading
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  HOA Members are neighbors

  by rlinquanti, about 1 year ago
  HOAs will always have abusers, and complainers. Too often, the fact that after developer turnover all HOA members are neighbors is forgotten. A person who violates published rules is annoying to neighbors who have their expectations. A person who does not pay an assessment is putting their financial burden on their neighbors To pick up that share of the costs, while benefitting from the community, the roads, the common areas, the amenities. HOAs are not deep pocket corporations. They are just the other people in the neighborhood. This is the other side of the story about abuses.

  
  

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  Two Sides to the Coin

  by Guy, about 1 year ago
  • Even though Colorado Law requires home buyers to confirm, by signature, that they have been presented with the governing documents of any HOA into which they are entering, some homeowners do not read or certainly do not remember what they read and are shocked by the constraints under which they have agreed to abide when they purchased their home. This is not a flaw in the laws that govern HOAs nor is it a flaw in the HOA concept or structure.
  • In addition to maintaining community-owned property, the HOA exists to help homeowners maintain the value of their property (that... Continue reading