Latest Legal Updates
Latest Legal Updates
HOA and condominium association legislation, court rulings and regulatory changes across every state, the District of Columbia and federal law — newest first.
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Minnesota's HOA ombudsperson has stopped taking mediation requests
The state office created in 2025 to help resolve association disputes is publicly posting that demand exceeds its resources — four months before Chapter 82 starts requiring boards to refer unresolved grievances to it.
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Prince George's County now fines associations up to $5,000 for not handing over documents in 48 hours
CR-005-2026, adopted 10-1 and effective 17 March 2026, requires an owners-only document portal, quarterly open meetings, a board majority that lives in the community, and caps copying at ten cents a page.
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Maine's four-units-per-lot ADU bill died under Joint Rule 310
LD 1272 would have allowed up to four dwelling units per lot and barred municipal owner-occupancy and ADU sprinkler mandates. It was killed administratively on 27 May 2025 — and it never threatened private covenants anyway.
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“Damages” did not mean “attorney fees,” and a Michigan HOA paid its own bill
Carnegie Woods denied the association its fees on two independent grounds: the bylaws never said “attorney fees,” and the association never pleaded a breach-of-contract claim on the deed restrictions.
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Nebraska's proposed disclosure form would make sellers name the association
The Real Estate Commission held a June 2026 hearing on a replacement Seller Property Condition Disclosure Statement that adds a blank for the association's name; it has not been adopted.
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NC Business Court dismisses owners' challenge to a Helene repair assessment
Brock v. Kyryk dismissed a challenge to a $3,970-per-lot Hurricane Helene special assessment, holding a suit is not derivative merely because it cites the derivative statute and that directors owe duties to the association, not to individual members.
Read the full updateA Maryland HOA banned short-term rentals after one owner started, and the ban reached him too
The Appellate Court of Maryland held the circuit court erred in declaring a Queen Anne's County declaration amendment unenforceable against the owner who was already renting — the fullest reading yet of the HOA Act's amendment power.
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Missouri's bill to let associations actually amend their own documents died in committee
SB 1603 and HB 3176 would have allowed amendment of declarations and bylaws by simple majority, with a deemed-approval mechanism for low turnout. The Senate hearing was cancelled; the House hearing led nowhere.
Read the full updateMinnesota clears HOAs to bill owners for EV charging
A new Minn. Stat. § 216B.422 says reselling electricity for EV charging does not make you an illegal public utility — removing the standing objection to associations billing per kWh at a shared charger. Minnesota still has no right-to-charge law.
Read the full updateMaine's insurance regulator confirms condo master policies can be dropped for any reason
The Bureau of Insurance's September 2025 availability report names condominium associations as a tightening line and states plainly that commercial policies carry none of the cancellation protections homeowners policies have.
Read the full updateMichigan co-owners lost $50,912 for leaving a lis pendens on title too long
Shenandoah Ridge, a published 2025 decision, held that individual co-owners lack standing to assert a reversion claim and that a stale lis pendens supported slander of title with special damages.
Read the full updateA cap on Maryland's HOA capital-contribution fees passed the House 136-0 and died without a Senate vote
HB 1506 would have limited the initial capital contribution charged to a buyer at closing to three times the monthly assessment, and required it to be named in the resale certificate. Maryland still has no limit at all.
Read the full updateA community association that inherited the common areas got back into the sewer-contract case
In City of Osage Beach v. Duenke Real Estate Holdings, the Southern District affirmed the setting aside of a default judgment, in a case where the developer LLCs had deeded the subdivision's common areas to the community association.
Read the full updateMinnesota court rejects owners' bid to put a defunct HOA into receivership
Orono Oaks holds that an owners' group lacks associational standing for compensatory damages and cannot be its own receiver — and that a remedy written into the declaration must be exhausted first, even if the association is defunct.
Read the full updateNebraska licenses nobody to run your HOA
No Nebraska agency registers, licenses or sets continuing education for community association managers, and the Real Estate License Act does not reach assessment collection.
Read the full updateNC bill to void HOA child-care restrictions retroactively stalls
Senate Bill 1051 would have voided North Carolina HOA provisions restricting licensed family child care homes and applied retroactively to existing declarations, but it stalled in Senate Appropriations in May 2026.
Read the full update“The election results were obscured” was too vague to state a claim, Michigan panel holds
White v Ottawa Shores dismissed an HOA election challenge under MCR 2.116(C)(8): the owners cited no specific bylaw, pleaded no facts about the actual election, and identified no duty owed to them.
Read the full updateA $45 million jetty at Camp Ellis, and what it says about who pays for erosion
Saco is getting a 750-foot spur jetty and 365,000 cubic yards of sand after a century in which 38 homes were lost and the shoreline receded 400 feet. Federal money is the exception, not the rule.
Read the full updateMaryland's housekeeping bill quietly fixed a wrong word in the HOA Act
The 2026 Annual Corrective Bill replaced an erroneous reference to a "condominium" in section 11B-111.5(a) of the Homeowners Association Act. It passed 43-0 and 137-0 and took effect the day it was signed.
Read the full updateMissouri has no agency that regulates homeowners associations. We went looking.
No ombudsman, no registry, no manager licensing, no reserve mandate, no dispute-resolution body — and the 2026 Missouri Register's eighteen issues contain no rule mentioning associations at all.
Read the full updateThe CFPB withdrew its pay-to-pay fee guidance, and Michigan associations still face the statute
Sixty-seven guidance documents were withdrawn effective May 12, 2025, including the 2022 circular on convenience fees. The FDCPA and Regulation F are untouched, and so is Michigan's own collection law.
Read the full updateMinnesota military and Gold Star flag bill died on both floor calendars
A bill that would have voided HOA restrictions on POW/MIA, service-branch, Blue Star and Gold Star flags reached the floor calendar in both chambers and was never called up. Minn. Stat. § 500.215 still protects only two flags.
Read the full updateNebraska PACE liens now outrank an assessment lien recorded later
LB 1135 moves the PACE lien on a single-family home to the first annual assessment and gives it priority over anything recorded afterward.
Read the full updateNC does not license HOA managers, and a rule change for those it does reach was pulled
North Carolina licenses no community association managers; oversight reaches only brokers who manage associations, and a 2026 proposal to repeal the agency-agreement rule drew 291 opposing comments and was withdrawn for republication.
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