Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Arizona
Neighborhood board of management
I have owned a single family home in an area with cc&r's for 20 yrs. I pay a yearly fee to the assoc. as all the other homeowners do. I rent my home to a family. This year the assoc. decided to nearly double the homeowners fee to those of us that rent our homes. They have decided I have 10 days to register my tenants names with them or pay a $300 fine. Is this legal? What business is it of their's who I rent to. I didn't give a list of names and ages when I lived there. I feel this is discrimination. I own a home and should pay the same lot fee as every other homeowner.
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: Neighborhood board of management
Not having a copy of the CC&Rs at my disposal, I am somewhat disadvantaged in giving a comment. Also, the CC&Rs probably give the board the ability to establish fees and policies.
That said, I question a policy of having one homeowner pay more than another. Does your subdivision have common amenities, such as a pool, recreation hall, playground, etc? There might be a safety reason to have the names of renters registered. What rationale does the board give for the different fees and the registrations?
Need to know more,
James D. Jenkins
Re: Neighborhood board of management
When you buy a home in a planned community with CC&Rs and HOA rules and regulations, you have given up your rights and agreed to perform your duties and obligations as described in the documents and your rights are limited by the operations of the association and the rules adopted by the association. The action taken by the board and the HOA must be done properly and according to law, so that any objection you have to the action of the board must be proven to be contrary to corporate law, contrary to the rules of the association and what is required to adopt new rules, and of course, must not be discriminatory against an individual. It is not necessarily discriminatory to pass a resolution that rental property be treated differently than owner occupied.