For Homeowners: Planned Development HOAs
Moving into a planned development often requires you to join the community’s HOA and pay its fees to help cover the upkeep…
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How to Get Through a Structural Home Inspection and What to Expect
Written By Katie Licavoli & Richard Haddad | Structural issues can wreak havoc on your home. They can cause cracked walls, sloping…
HOA Homefront: We tried, failed to remove ‘bombastic braggart.’ What went wrong?
Q: We tried to get a bombastic braggart off the board by a vote. He interrupts and has even stood and approached…
HOA Homefront: Automatic election rules, no ballot box and term limits
Q: Our board approved the old version of the bill SB323 as-is to replace our current election rules. Recently, we had our…
For These #Millennial Homeowners, the Vacation House Is the New #StarterHome
Owning a home is the American dream, but exactly what type of home is that old adage referring to? For many millennials,…
Homeowner says their HOA is subsidizing a golf country club
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal | Q: Looking for some advice. My homeowners association has private country club/golf course that the other HOA…
$75 million for residents whose homes were built on landfill
A group of New Orleans residents whose homes were built on a toxic landfill decades ago have won a $75.3 million court…
Habitat for Humanity just unveiled its first-ever 3D-printed home
While 3D printing has been around since the 1980s, its use in home building is relatively new — and it offers up…
Greater Atlanta HBA Announces Dates for Annual Parade of Homes
The Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association recently announced the dates for its annual Parade of Homes, a free, self-guided tour featuring model…
HOA residents fight for right to install rooftop solar panels
By Dennis Biviano | GALLOWAY, Ohio — Some Ohio homeowners have been battling for their ability to live green and use solar…
Lansner’s mailbag: ‘Stop with the inequity bull’ on Black homeownership
“Mailbag” offers some insight into comments I get from readers — good, bad or in-between — and my thoughts about their feedback. …
Did the pandemic kill homeownership?
I’m confused about what’s being sold as “housing” in this pandemic era. Are houses simply shelters for households? Or are they profit-making…
Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity offering home repair tutorials in new ‘Learning Lab’
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — After years of planning and hard work, the Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity recently completed their new learning…
State plan calls for 2.5 million new homes by 2030
California needs to build 2.5 million homes by the end of the decade to address the state’s current housing shortgage, more than…
Camden County residents to vote March 8 on proposed spaceport property
Written By Etter Rebecca | 3,516 petitions forced a special election to determine the fate of the proposed commercial launch site in…
HOA’s Fees Range
A Trulia study which used American Community Survey records, found monthly HOA fees averaged $331 a month in 2015. Averages ranged from a…