Explore the declining Florida condo market: soaring costs, insurance rates, and the challenges facing owners in a shifting real estate landscape.

In this post, I take a bold, Big Picture view of HOA problems. I define HOA problems broadly, to include any combination of the following: HOA abuse of power, HOA community dysfunction, years of ...

In order to protect the property rights of all unit owners, this bill would require 100% of all voting interests in a residential condominium association to approve a termination of the association.

2022 appears to be the year of the Backlash Against HOAs. IAC is following several new bills with a similar theme: Restore the rights of homeowners and residents, and hold HOAs and HOA-industry ...

Deferred maintenance is no longer limited to low-income housing communities In the past, IAC has posted about dangerous and uninhabitable housing that had to be condemned. Thankfully, local ...

By Deborah Goonan, Independent American Communities Common Interest Developments in the U.S. are governed by one or more of the following: Homeowner Associations, also known as Homes Associations or ...

Due to the coronavirus pandemic crisis, millions of Americans are celebrating Easter Sunday or Passover this year quarantined at home. And, for roughly 70 million Americans, that home is located in an ...

It’s bad enough that COVID-19 is spreading across the U.S., with confirmed cases exceeding 200,000 and 4,300 deaths as I write today’s post. Americans also face devastating economic and social fallout ...

By Deborah Goonan, Independent American Communities For several decades, local governments have eagerly delegated construction of roads, dams, and stormwater drainage systems to private deve… ...

Homeowners in two states on the opposite side of the country stand up for Constitutional rights in HOA-governed communities. In 2020, First Amendment rights are on the line in Arizona, while Florida ...