OUR CONCORDIA and the candidates we support agrees with these recommendations and would seek to implement most.
Homeowners have the right to:
1. A responsive community association.
2. Honest, fair and
respectful treatment by community leaders and managers.
3. Participate in governing the community association by attending meetings, serving on committees and standing for election.
4. Access appropriate association books and records.
5. Prudent expenditure of fees and other assessments.
6. Live in a community where the property is maintained according to established standards.
7. Fair treatment regarding financial and other association obligations, including the opportunity to discuss payment plans and options with the association before foreclosure is initiated.
8. Receive all documents that address rules and regulations governing the community association—if not prior to purchase and settlement by a real estate agent or attorney, then upon joining the community.
3. Participate in governing the community association by attending meetings, serving on committees and standing for election.
4. Access appropriate association books and records.
5. Prudent expenditure of fees and other assessments.
6. Live in a community where the property is maintained according to established standards.
7. Fair treatment regarding financial and other association obligations, including the opportunity to discuss payment plans and options with the association before foreclosure is initiated.
8. Receive all documents that address rules and regulations governing the community association—if not prior to purchase and settlement by a real estate agent or attorney, then upon joining the community.
9. Appeal to appropriate
community leaders those decisions affecting non-routine financial
responsibilities or property rights.
Community leaders have the responsibility to:
1. Fulfill their fiduciary duties to the community and exercise discretion in a manner they reasonably believe to be in the best interest of the community.
2. Exercise sound business judgment and follow established management practices.
3. Balance the needs and obligations of the community as a whole with those of individual homeowners and residents.
4. Understand the association’s governing documents and become educated with respect to applicable state and local laws, and to manage the community association accordingly.
5. Establish communities or use other methods to obtain input from owners and non-owner residents.
6. Conduct open, fair and well-publicized elections.
7. Welcome and educate new members of the community - owners and non-owner residents.
8. Encourage input from residents on issues affecting them personally and the community as a whole.
9. Encourage events that foster neighborliness and a sense of community.
10. Conduct business in a transparent manner. Only use executive sessions under circumstances permitted in the association's governing documents, permitted by local or state law or as necessary for the conduct of sensitive and/or confidential business matters.
11. Allow homeowners access to appropriate community records when requested.
12. Collect all monies due from owners and non-owner residents.
13. Devise appropriate and reasonable arrangements, when needed and as feasible, to facilitate the ability of individual homeowners to meet their financial obligations to the community.
14. Provide a process residents can use to accept decisions affecting their non-routine financial responsibilities or property rights - where permitted by law and the association's governing documents.
15. Initiate foreclosure proceedings only as a measure of last resort.
16. Make covenants, conditions and restrictions as understandable as possible, adding clarifying "lay" language or supplementary materials when drafting or revising the documents. 17. Provide complete and timely disclosure of personal and financial conflicts of interest to the actions of community leaders, e.g., officers, the board and committees. (Community associations may want to develop a code oƒ ethics.)
2. Exercise sound business judgment and follow established management practices.
3. Balance the needs and obligations of the community as a whole with those of individual homeowners and residents.
4. Understand the association’s governing documents and become educated with respect to applicable state and local laws, and to manage the community association accordingly.
5. Establish communities or use other methods to obtain input from owners and non-owner residents.
6. Conduct open, fair and well-publicized elections.
7. Welcome and educate new members of the community - owners and non-owner residents.
8. Encourage input from residents on issues affecting them personally and the community as a whole.
9. Encourage events that foster neighborliness and a sense of community.
10. Conduct business in a transparent manner. Only use executive sessions under circumstances permitted in the association's governing documents, permitted by local or state law or as necessary for the conduct of sensitive and/or confidential business matters.
11. Allow homeowners access to appropriate community records when requested.
12. Collect all monies due from owners and non-owner residents.
13. Devise appropriate and reasonable arrangements, when needed and as feasible, to facilitate the ability of individual homeowners to meet their financial obligations to the community.
14. Provide a process residents can use to accept decisions affecting their non-routine financial responsibilities or property rights - where permitted by law and the association's governing documents.
15. Initiate foreclosure proceedings only as a measure of last resort.
16. Make covenants, conditions and restrictions as understandable as possible, adding clarifying "lay" language or supplementary materials when drafting or revising the documents. 17. Provide complete and timely disclosure of personal and financial conflicts of interest to the actions of community leaders, e.g., officers, the board and committees. (Community associations may want to develop a code oƒ ethics.)
For Homeowners’ responsibilities and Community
Leaders’ rights, see:
https://www.caionline.org/Advocacy/PublicPolicies/Pages/Rights-and-Responsibilities-for-Better-Communities.aspx
https://www.caionline.org/Advocacy/PublicPolicies/Pages/Rights-and-Responsibilities-for-Better-Communities.aspx
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