HOA’s increasingly have exterior maintenance and repair responsibilities in non-condominium developments, and in that regard have the same type of financial responsibility that a condominium association would have over the common areas. When a developer’s defective construction increases those repair and maintenance expenditures, an association can quickly find itself without the funds necessary to make […]
QUAIL HOLLOW DECISION
Once again VF Law LLP, the only law firm in the state with a track record of representing Oregon’s homeowner associations in the appellate courts of Oregon, has asked the Oregon Supreme Court to review the recent decision handed down by the Oregon court of appeals in Quail Hollow v. Brownstone et al. Quail Hollow […]
What Does “Maintenance and Repair Responsibility” Mean to a Townhouse HOA? (Oregon Law)
What is a townhouse or a rowhome? One can witness their increasing popularity by a quick scan of the Sunday Oregonian’s real estate pages or other advertisements for new housing in the Portland-metropolitan area. It is clear that the townhouse or rowhome has become a fixture in many new housing developments popping up around the […]
Common Interest Developments
Homeowners associations are quickly becoming ubiquitous with home ownership. According to the 1990 United States census, nearly one out of every eight Americans lived in a CID; since that time, an estimated (60%) of the new housing developed in the United States is CID-type housing. The bulk of new residential projects in Oregon (and nationwide) […]
Senate Bill 955
The 2005 legislative session marked a low point for Oregon homeowner associations. Budget woes generally being experienced by the state captured virtually all of the legislators’ time while homeowner association bills received short shrift. Added to the lack of attention that the homeowner association-related bills received was the new phenomenon of a variety of bills […]