I live in Smyrna, GA (located in Cobb County). My homeowner’s association does allow anybody to attend any of the monthly board meetings held one weeknight per month. However, many of us are unable to attend for various reasons and have requested that the Board post the latest minutes and financial statements on the HOA website. Having been refused, we then asked that the Board would provide copies of these documents to any resident upon request. They refused again. Their position is that since the HOA Board meetings are open to all residents, then they don’t have to provide these documents. Can you tell me what, if any, are the HOA’s legal obligations with regard to making financial statements and meeting minutes available to their homeowners.

I own a condo in Miami and owe back maintenance fees. Can the HOA put a lien on my condo even if the asociation is inactive? I believe the HOA has been inactive for more then 3 years.

Two parts: Is it true that hoa covenants provide an “extra layer” of protection and/or restriction to it’s members on top of state law? Second, if that’s true, and the covenants require a 70% written agreement to amend the covenants, can the hoa board sidestep this provision by citing state law, which allows in absence of a ballot or no-vote to be counted as a yes to amend the covenants?

Do homeowners’s associations have the rights to charge you fees even if you haven’t signed a contract to abide by the rules?

Can a HOA board do background checks on new tenants that investors want to allow to lease their condo? Are there any legal steps a Tx HOA board can do to limit the number of renters in a community?

If a person maintains a property line for 25 years does that give ownership rights?

Can an HOA legally design a mult-level membership with access to more or less depending on what type of membership you obtain? We have a community were a lot of members complains about paying dues because they never use the golf course. We think that if we restructured the dues to allow those that don’t use the course to pay a lessor fee.

neighbor across the street from me put cameras up looks like it is facing my house here in Peoria AZ.What can I do about it please help

in Louisiana, do homeowner associations (HOA) have the right to prohibit parking a business vehicle (a very neat and fairly new truck) in the residential driveway and completely one the private premises of a residence? One such HOA is taking legal action to prohibit this, causing extreme hardship to the individuals for whom the truck is a necessity for earning a living. Where can I find Louisiana rules that govern this?

My husband and I bought a house last September. The house has a ditch running behind it that is owned by the irrigation district.

To get over to the back end of our property you have to cross a bridge. The well, root cellar, trees, foliage, stone steps, small rock pond and etc landscaping is all running along the ditch just a few feet away from the actual ditch.

All of it, including the well and cellar have been there for at the very least 25-30 years. Suddenly today we find out that they have the right to tear all of it down, our well cellar trees stone steps everything…to make another access road so that they have a road on each side of the ditch, and that they intend to and will have someone come out this fall to talk to us about ripping everything down.

Is this legal? Is there anything we can do to stop them from tearing down everything to make a ditch road 10 feet from our back door? There is no way we can afford to build a new well…and with all the landscaping gone our place will be lucky to sell for a 4th of the price we just bought it for!

We need some answers or ideas on what we should do, we put everything into this place.