Search▶ HOA Lawyers Bingo, bango, bongo or just BING Twitter Facebook Google Avvo.com While it's true that you find more than a million links for the topic above at the sites searched, you may not need to go any further than your neighborhood HOA to understand the powerful link between your association and the legal counsel they have hired▶ It also won't take you long to realize that the very same legal counsel is the primary roadblock to real transparency within your association, or at least that is the observation of this HOA citizen journalist. https://goo.gl/G4uGDn If you read the a series of search results and archive on topic (# transparency ), the question of how much or how little transparency exists in the typical common interest development (aka HOA) is answered only by personal experience ▶ As for our Inland Empire, Southern California HOA, the # transparency  experience is uneven, at best ▶  In California, the complicated Davis-Stir...

#SocialCurrentSee : #Davis -Stirling ( #ALTACITIES archive via @Storify : When may a homeowner attorney attend HOA mtg? https://t.co/MU97gA1dow — Mike Foxworth (@ALTALOMAN) March 22, 2016 On multiple occasions in our common interest development (aka HOA) in the Inland Empire of Southern California ( Trilogy Glen Ivy ) we have been informed and have observed that the attorneys for the HOA are not that at all.  That is to say the attorneys, by their own declaration, have said they "only represent the board of directors" (BOD) and not the homeowners, titleholders who pay their bills. As strange as it seems, that peculiar relationship plays out, at times, in an adverse way with homeowners because the law and practice of HOA governance in 2016 does not allow homeowners to have legal counsel present at general (open) meetings of the board.  Of course, there are precious few instances when having private counsel at board meetings is necessary, but when it is...

VIDEO (Click to Link) ▶Posted in triplicate (a Trilogy ) around these # ALTACITIES  and our  Flipboard  magazines, the following # SocialCurrentSee archive is a timely sequel to the allied posts on our NEXTDOOR Trilogy message board. http://www.nomorobo.com STOP ROBO CALLS! The # ALTACITIES archived   VIDEO clip  (above), an important '# SocialCurrentSee ' lecture courtesy of TEDx , was not intended for the management, board, or residents of common interest developments (aka HOAs), but the leadership theme might well apply in this location and any business enterprise, nonprofit or for-profit. Flip②▶ Follow:  Susan Scott   ▶   Fierce, Inc. ▶ QUOTABLE  Susan Scott is a best-selling author and leadership development architect who has enabled top executives worldwide to engage in vibrant dialogue with one another, with their employees, and with their customers for two decades. A recognized thought leader in the globa...