Real Estate Law Articles

Getting to Know your HOA When you are considering buying a piece of property that falls under the auspices of a homeowner association, you need to know exactly what rules and regulations they have in place. Your needs and wants from the property need to be in line with what the HOA expects, and i...

Should your Community Association be Reaping the Benefits? Should your community association allow advertising on its website? The answer depends on a lot of factors. Your community association website should have one ultimate goal: enhancing communication. This includes communication between the...

Tips for every Home Owner's Association While any Home Owner's Association has its regulations and formal documents that itemize how it is run and what sort of criteria the applicants must meet to qualify for residency, most also stipulate that an interview process occur as well. This allows HOA ...

What you can do when good neighbors go gaudy What happens when someone decides they want to put up gaudy decorations on their front lawn or decides to let the yard “go back to nature” rather than mow it and keep it in shape? What do you do when a house in the community has a van parked out front ...

Inc 5000 names PeytonBolin #3,228 in list of fastest growing private companies PeytonBolin, a leading real estate law firm, has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of the nation's fastest growing private companies. The prestigious rankings were announced earlier today and PeytonBolin was honored...

How to respond to an HOA's demand letter or delinquent assessment notice Your homeowners association exists to govern community rules and administer common areas and activities that benefit the entire community. When you signed the closing agreement, you agreed to pay your mortgage, insurance, ta...

6 activities that can foster a vibrant, responsive and healthy community association A community with spirit is a community that takes pride in itself. Like safe neighborhoods, spirited communities attract like-minded residents and generally have higher resale values. The emotional investment res...

Unless registered with the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes, Citizens will not insure or renew. In a 2013 legislative session, changes were made to homeowners' association governance (720.303(13)) that require community association managers, or the management firm an...

Making the Right Decision for your Community Association Common lounge areas are a great way to bring your community together and give them a comfortable space to gather, meet, socialize, or simply relax. As its most basic level, your common lounge area can have a few couches or some tables and c...

Staying Safe in your Community As residents in a community association, part of your responsibility is to help maintain the different communal areas also known as common areas. While your association dues/assessments will take care of most of the tasks associated with community upkeep, you still ...