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CC&Rs Don’t Create Unlimited Taxation Authority

Required HOA disclosures

Nevada’s HOA Ombudsman’s- Time For Change

 

CIC Task Force- Lawmakers Seek Answers But The Establishment Prevails

HOAs Not Just Harmless Neighborhood Committees- My Story

When Conflict Becomes Control: How Ambiguity in Nevada Law Can Undermine HOA Boards

Are Nevada Judges the Best Money Can Provide?

 

When Elections Can Be Merely Symbolic

HOAs Far More Than Contracts — A Different Path

Nevada Courts Reshaping HOA Law Beyond What the Legislature Ever Intended — Yet Again

Buying Blind

 

11 Tips When Buying Into An HOA

 

Private on Paper, Public in Practice — Why HOAs Need Better Transparency Rules

 

Common Elements- no limits on what HOAs can own?

 

When HOA Boards Vote by Email, Homeowners Lose Their Voice

 

Special Assessements-When Reserve Shortfalls Are Manufactured

 

HOA Board Agenda Changes at the Last Minute

Lawmakers See “HOA” as a Four-Letter Word-Time for Accountability

 

Two Hurdles to HOA Fairness: Nevada Keeps Stumbling

Time to End HOA Foreclosure Liens

Nevada’s HOA System Remains “Unfinished”

 

Dispute resolution (ADR) reform must be a Legislature’s priority

 

Putting Owners First: A New Framework for HOA Dispute Resolution

Nevada Knows Fee-Shifting Is Dangerous — But Uses It In HOAs

 

Engineered, Not Chosen: Buying In a Common Interest Community

 

The HOA Quasi-Governmental Paradox: How Courts Recognize HOA Power but Deny Public Protections

 

HOA Budgets: Why Homeowners Often Have No Real Say

 

HOA Warning Signs For Owners

 

Virtual-Only Meetings – An HOA  Warning Flag

 

Nevada Supreme Court Ignores the Law on HOA Disputes—Become Policy Makers In Robes 

The Secrecy Wall: Regulator’s “Confidentiality” Undermines HOA Accountability and Trust

 

Secret HOA Board meetings- "workshops"- Part 1-distance between statutory intent and operational practice

HOA Boards & The “Right to Be Wrong" But Not To Be Abusive

 

Unchecked and Unaccountable: Nevada’s HOA System Failing Those It Was Meant to Protect

 

HOA Reforming in the Dark

 

Nevada CICCH Commission- A Hard Reset Is Needed

"Buyer beware" - Nevada’s Attorney General’s office argues the earth is flat, at least when it involves HOA laws. Why bother with CC&Rs?

Are HOA Owners Dissatisfied- don't look to regulatory complaints to tell the story?

Taming the beast that is HOAs- the CIC Task Force

 

Virtual HOA Board meetings- open to abuse?

 

Cost-shifting HOA justice: Time to draw the line

 

CC&Rs and "constructive consent"

 

Delegation of Authority: Boards Captured by its Vendors

 

Civic apathy isn’t just a national problem

 

United voice and credible enforcement- two missing "must haves" for Nevada HOA owners

 

Nevada's HOA conflict of interest rules are flawed - reform needed

 

"Declarant's control" - misunderstood

 

Anti-SLAPP- what HOA owners need to know to protect themselves

No mediation no litigation- the law until recently.

Amending HOA Declarations in Nevada-Part1 

 

Amending HOA Declarations in Nevada- Part 2

 

Amending HOA Declarations in Nevada- Part 3

How to comment on Nevada bills

 

HOA primer- start to controversy

Why are HOAs even legal?

 

HOA owners are under assault

 

HOAs quasi-governmental? Important to owners and legislation is needed?

 

Nevada Real Estate Division does not track declarant control.

 

Danger: private regulatory enforcement

 

Declarant Control- a little known dark secret #1

 

Developer control even after "control termination"- Dark secret #2

 

Developer Control and the infamous AB 192(2015)

 

Does your HOA contribute to CAI?

 

A challenge to Nevada’s regulators and legislators- an open letter (written in 2019)

The Rise and Effects of Homeowner Associations

Thoughts on the NRED complaint process

The unengaged HOA owners is us

Who is running your homeowner association (HOA)?

Nevada Governor stands by HOA owners when lawmakers failed

AB 185-HOAs and child care

Require HOA's allow licensed child care operations.

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