Explore the declining Florida condo market: soaring costs, insurance rates, and the challenges facing owners in a shifting real estate landscape.

HOA Consumer Education for Homeowners,buyers,Housing Consumers,Condo & Homeowner Association Risks,Abuse,Constitutional,property rights,Common Interest Communities ...

By Deborah Goonan, Independent American Communities An update to the 2016 article Homeowners’ Association residents’ interests often clash with trade group CAI. A reminder that the trade group does ...

In a recent study produced for the Urban Land Institute, these are the newest buzz words in real estate development circles — “attainable housing.” The Attainable Housing study summarizes result of an ...

Deferred maintenance is no longer limited to low-income housing communities In the past, IAC has posted about dangerous and uninhabitable housing that had to be condemned. Thankfully, local ...

Because many legislative reform solutions have been attempted. But, have you noticed that not one of them has eliminated or reduced HOA problems? In fact, legislation often creates new HOA problems.

Once in a while, I read an Editorial about association-governed communities (homeowner associations or HOAs) that just begs for a response. From Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Kristen DeBoy Caminiti, ...

House Rep. Rosemary Brown (R – 189th Legislative District) held a press conference on April 25th, urging Governor Tom Wolf to sign HB595, a bill that, according to Brown, will “assign additional ...

Today’s post offers more proof that Community Associations Institute, California Legislative Action Committee — CAI-CLAC is unfriendly to homeowners. If anyone reading this post still believes that ...

A buyer should always read and review the Covenants, Conditions, & Restrictions, (CC&Rs), plus additional rules and regulations, before closing on the sale of a home in an HOA-governed community. If ...

For several years, trade group Community Associations Institute (CAI) has been working with Congressional Representatives to attempt to push through federal legislation that puts private communities – ...