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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A South Dakota roofing contract can be cancelled in 72 hours
SDCL 37-24-51 gives any person or entity — an association included — 72 hours to cancel a storm damage roofing contract, running again from the moment the insurer denies coverage. A deductible rebate voids the contract outright.
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A Utah HOA manager took $2.1m and got 25 months
A Cedar City property manager was sentenced in December 2025 for embezzling from HOAs, owners and tenants over five years — the second southern Utah association theft case in two years.
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South Carolina closed a two-year session with no HOA law enacted
The 126th General Assembly adjourned its 2025-2026 term without ratifying a single homeowners-association act, leaving the South Carolina Homeowners Association Act unamended since 2019.
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A Wyoming settlement failed over whether a restriction would be recorded
In Cross v. Albright the Wyoming Supreme Court held that neighbours who mediated a deal over ditch access and a visual storage restriction never formed a contract, because they had not agreed whether the restriction was a recorded covenant or a personal promise.
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Tennessee bill to void HOA child care bans died twice
A measure making covenant restrictions on licensed family and group child care homes void and unenforceable failed for lack of a second in 2025, returned broader in 2026 with a damages remedy, and was parked in subcommittee without ever reaching a vote.
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Vermont bylaws cannot hand an owner the repair bill
A Washington Unit judge held that limited common element maintenance is the association’s under § 3-107 unless the declaration says otherwise — and that amended bylaws are not enough.
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FinCEN permanently ends beneficial-ownership filing, and Texas HOA boards are out
A FinCEN final rule issued 11 August 2026 permanently removes the Corporate Transparency Act beneficial-ownership reporting requirement for US companies and US persons, ending years of uncertainty for Texas associations organised as nonprofit corporations.
Read the full updateThe referendum on the homeowner tax fund ran out of signatures
A coalition tried to refer SB 245, which routes a sales tax step-up into property tax relief for owner-occupied homes, to a public vote. It needed 17,508 signatures by June 29 and did not get them; the law took effect July 1, 2026.
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Virginia associations have nothing left to file with FinCEN
A final rule effective August 14, 2026 narrows beneficial ownership reporting to foreign entities only, permanently exempting domestic companies — which includes every Virginia association incorporated under Title 13.1.
Read the full updateEveryone is talking about 'the new 2026 condo rules.' FHA's have not been amended since 2019
24 CFR 203.43b has not been amended since October 15, 2019, and no 2025 or 2026 mortgagee letter changes condominium project approval — a separate regime from the Fannie and Freddie changes that took effect in August.
Read the full updateThe solar credit expired and Wyoming has nothing underneath it
The residential clean energy credit ended for expenditures made after December 31, 2025 and the EV charger credit for property placed in service after June 30, 2026 — and Wyoming has no state solar credit, no rebate, and no solar-access statute limiting association control.
Read the full updateUtah’s HOA board education bill died on the House floor
H.B. 262 would have required Utah HOA board members to complete training and let a board remove a member who did not. It failed 30-42 on the House floor in February 2025 and has not returned.
Read the full updateVermont's garden bill passed the House and exempted condos
H.537 would have voided covenants against vegetable gardens in exclusive-use areas, with a 60-day clock and a $1,000 penalty — but subsection (e) read “This section shall not apply to a condominium.” It died in the Senate.
Read the full updateAn HOA president sent a violation letter and lost his own variance
In DeCramer v. Dorale the neighbours who received a covenant-violation letter had their lot surveyed, found the association president's own house inside the setback, and got his after-the-fact variance vacated.
Read the full updateThe beneficial-ownership exemption is now final, and FinCEN said a separate HOA carve-out is unnecessary because the blanket one covers them
FinCEN's final rule, published and effective August 14, 2026, exempts all US-formed entities from beneficial ownership reporting. South Carolina associations have no filing obligation and no deadline running.
Read the full updateThe Fourth Circuit revived a fair-housing claim against a community association
Group Home on Gibson Island v. Gibson Island Corporation vacated summary judgment for the association and sent reasonable-accommodation, retaliation and discrimination claims to a jury — binding precedent in Virginia.
Read the full updateA Laramie County HOA road restriction split a venue approval in two
Commissioners approved the Bit-O-Wyo Ranch event venue in two phases on September 1, 2026 because the Cheyenne Pass Subdivision HOA restricted traffic on the most feasible access road, leaving phase two contingent on a BLM easement.
Read the full updateVermont still has no statute of repose for building defects
H.589 would have given Vermont a six-year outer bar on construction-defect claims running from substantial completion. It got three committee dates and no vote.
Read the full updateUtah property managers need a licence; HOA staff do not
H.B. 337 created Utah's first general property-manager licence, effective January 1, 2026, and exempted an association's own salaried employee from it.
Read the full updateH. 3447 would have put a judge between an HOA lien and a foreclosure sale. It died without a Senate hearing
The bill requiring an association to apply for a rule to show cause before a foreclosure sale cleared the South Carolina House 110-2 in February 2025, then recorded no Senate action for fourteen months.
Read the full updateNo Attorney General opinion in three years has touched an association
All thirteen South Dakota Attorney General opinions issued in 2024, 2025 and 2026 concern public officers' duties. There is a structural reason no association opinion exists — and a road-district opinion worth reading anyway.
Read the full updateTexas HOAs gained new fencing authority in 2025 — and a security carve-out that overrides it
SB 711 rewrote Property Code § 202.023 to let associations bar fencing that blocks sidewalks, drainage and licensed areas or sits forward of a dwelling's front-most building line, while grandfathering pre-September 2025 fences and exempting owners who document a law-enforcement security need.
Read the full updateTennessee investor-purchase bill passed 31-1, then died
The Homes not Hedge Funds Act would have barred certain entities from buying more than 100 single-family homes to rent in specified counties. It cleared the Senate almost unanimously and then failed for lack of a second in a House subcommittee.
Read the full updateVermont shared-solar economics are back on the table
The Public Utility Commission opened a rulemaking on September 9, 2026 to rewrite the net-metering rule that group arrays on association common land depend on, with a workshop on October 2.
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