VIDEO  ▶ SLIDESHOW  ▶ PDF ALTACITIES today follows The Center for California Homeowner Association Law ,  a clearinghouse of consumer education, training, and referral services for the estimated 9 million California homeowners who now live in over 45,000 common interest development (CID) or HOAs in the state. CCHA is created to serve consumers who live in these localities or are considering purchasing an association home. The CCHA mission is to provide training and support to public interest attorneys, to legal services organizations, to fair housing agencies, and to other nonprofits serving homeowners; to government agencies with jurisdiction over CIDs, and public officials, journalists, and researchers delving into the public policy issues raised by CIDs in their role as quasi-local governments. The focus of the Center is the web of laws and regulations creating the CID legal framework that governs both the lives and the pro...

VIDEO  ▶ SLIDESHOW THIS SITE DOES NOT GIVE LEGAL ADVICE Enter your email address: Delivered by Feedburner Homeowners won’t reside long in a California Common Interest Development or Homeowner‘s Association (HOA), without coming to face with the state corporations code . Even though officers and directors are deemed fiduciaries, boards are not required to make the "right" decision. Rather, they must make what they believe to be the best decision for the corporation with the available information. Corporations Code §7231(a) protects directors from personal liability if they make decisions that result in damage or loss to others, provided their decisions were made: In  good faith ,   In a manner which the directors believe to be in the best interests of the corporation, and   With such care, including  reasonable inquiry , as an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would use under similar circumstances. The most-often cite...

​ WHO▶ Is the source for ALTACITIES ®? The microblogger @  altaloman  creates and curates this domain and compiles content for the Flipboard site by the same name. This is a place where  ALTACITIES  links, amplifies, and archives selected web content dealing with #HOAs, #CIDs, #POAs, #homeowner, #associations and a variety of other hashtag (#) subjects related to the common interest developments... ~ post compiled and archived by CANSWERIST for SocialCurrentSee ▶  ALTACITIES  ®, an acronym for " ALTERNATE CITIES ", is the web moniker for the neighborhood of sites, blogs and locations created and managed by @  altaloman , in reference to our first web journals and blogging activity when residents of Alta Loma in Southern California. In 2011, we moved but these  ALTACITIES  ® remain in the form of common interest developments ▶ http://flip.it/VQOxZn WHAT▶ Is aggregation? (1) The formation of a number of things into a clus...

▶  TWITTER moments (like the one archived here) and social media content well archive the location and sources of some recent # HOA news ▶  According to the Community Associations Institute (CAI), there are more than 333,000 HOAs, CIDs, or POAs in the U.S.▶ These communities include more than 26 million dwellings and over 66.7 million residents (2014 data)▶ Homeowners associations account for about 51–55% of the totals, condominium communities for 42–45% and cooperatives for 3–4%▶ Florida, California, and Texas are home to more than 100,000 associations with over 20 million residents combined  ▶ Posted :  http://bit.ly/2fL1qhA ​ Flip②▶ Alta♥CITIES®▶ http://flip.it/uWZGhc▶ # SocialCurrentSee ®  by # ALTACITIES ®▶  # HOA news ▶ http://altacities.com #HOAs Today ▶#SocialCurrentSee® ⚡️  ALTACITIES   ⚡️  ⚡️  FLIPBOARD   ⚡️  ⚡️  FACEBOOK   ⚡️  ⚡️  TWITTER   ⚡️ ...