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Competitive Bidding: An Undefined Standard NRED and the Commission Ignore
Nevada HOA boards can avoid competitive bidding by never soliciting bids at all. NRED has acknowledged the loophole, the Commission has authority to address the fiduciary gap, and neither has solved a problem known for years.
Aug 3010 min read


HOA Reserve Funding — What Owners Will Actually Pay
Nevada is moving to strengthen HOA reserve funding rules. But a stronger reserve standard is only useful if boards clearly show owners how they intend to meet it. The missing link may be a clearly identified annual Reserve Budget.
Aug 207 min read


Nevada’s HOA Health-and-Safety Fine Proposal Has Changed — But the Blank Check Problem Remains
Nevada’s revised HOA HSW fine proposal still gives HOA boards too much discretion.
Aug 167 min read


NRED Seeks More Secrecy — Not the Transparency HOA Owners Demand
Section 4 of proposed regulation R091-25 would formalize confidential complaint resolutions that can allow NRED’s interpretations of Nevada HOA law to become operative in practice without public Commission review.
Aug 167 min read


“On Advice of Counsel” Should Begin the Inquiry—Not End It*
Nevada HOA boards may rely on legal counsel, but fiduciary duty remains with the directors. A recent NRED determination shows why that distinction matters.
Aug 1312 min read


Nevada HOA Records Gap: NRED Rejection Confirms the Problem
NRED rejected a petition seeking timely access to HOA records tied to board agenda items, leaving Nevada owners with a critical records-access gap.
Aug 135 min read


HOAs Are Not Just About Rules.
Many homeowners like HOAs for community standards and amenities. But HOAs also exercise real governing and financial power over homes. The real question is whether Nevada properly limits that power and protects homeowners when it is misused.
May 57 min read


Who Really Does What in Nevada’s HOA System- At Least On Paper
Nevada homeowners often assume the state’s HOA system works like other regulated industries. It does not. This post explains who does what in Nevada’s HOA structure and why understanding that structure matters before a dispute becomes your own.
Apr 2614 min read


Homeowners Deserve More Than Procedural Theater: Fix Nevada’s HOA ADR System
Nevada tells homeowners there is a process when HOA disputes arise. But when complaints are dismissed without explanation, mediation produces no real accountability, and even “mandatory” ADR can be waived, the system begins to look less like protection and more like procedural theater.
Mar 176 min read


Nevada HOA Rights Mean Little Without Trusted Enforcement
Nevada HOA owners may have rights on paper, but weak enforcement, secrecy, and regulatory capture often make those rights difficult to use in practice.
Mar 147 min read


Fixing a Dispute Resolution System That Fails Homeowners
Most HOA disputes are not about money damages, but about interpretation and compliance with governing documents—CC&Rs, bylaws, and rules that bind homeowners as servitudes on their property. Yet Nevada’s dispute-resolution framework forces these governance disputes into forums that cannot resolve them, ultimately destined for civil litigation so costly and risky that most owners rationally abandon their claims before a neutral ever examines the issue.
Feb 76 min read


Real Work for the CIC Task Force — On Behalf of Homeowners
Nevada homeowners lack real ways to challenge HOA governance abuses. Here’s what the CIC Task Force should fix — and why it matters now.
Jan 318 min read


Virtual-Only HOA Meetings Are Wrong — Even If You Can Log In
Nevada HOA boards are eliminating physical meetings and going fully virtual. State law still requires a “place.” Regulators haven’t clearly authorized the change.
Jan 2911 min read


The HOA Equity Bargain: Why HOA Owners Should Support Limits on Corporate Homeownership
The recent rise in corporate ownership of residential homes—and the governance influence it carries within HOAs, even at relatively small concentrations—places new strain on the assumptions underlying the HOA equity bargain. Common-interest community (CIC) laws rest on a foundational compromise: homeowners and the law tolerate extraordinary intrusions on traditional property rights only so long as governance remains aligned with resident interests rather than external profit
Jan 209 min read


What Nevada Missed in HOA Dispute Reform—Time to Finish the Job
Nevada’s HOA dispute resolution system was built on a well-intentioned premise: most conflicts between homeowners and associations are ill-suited for civil litigation- but it fails to deliver.
Dec 16, 20254 min read
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