'Not knowing it' is the key phrase in your question. Can this sale be accomplished in secret? The answer is no.
If you've chosen to ignore or have chosen to disregard notices from the association -- based on your failure, then the sale has not taken place 'in secret'.
No. If you owe money to your homeowners’ association, the association can foreclose on your home in its efforts to collect unpaid dues or fines. The association would be required to follow the legal process for foreclosure of the debt in your jurisdiction and you would be notified of the action.
You can avoid being in an association by not purchasing a home in one. If you own real estate in an association, you can sell your property.
No--unless the homeowner's association is in your home's deed. To find that out, you may contact the escrow or title company who prepared you home's closing paperwork.
As most home owners associations are written into the deed as a convanant there is no way out but to sell the property.
Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford - 1998 Home Without Limits was released on: USA: 29 October 2011
If the homes are within the provenance of the association, the new owners are automatically members of the association and are required to pay monthly assessments and live in the property according to the governing documents.
A person who purchases a lot in a planned community agrees to obey the all the terms and provisions, rules and regulations of the homeowner's association. The penalties for non-compliance should be set forth in the document that created the homeowner's association. You should review your copy.
Laws vary by state but in all my experiences the property owner has to be notified.
It depends on the laws of the jurisdiction in which the homeowner's association is organized.Another AnswerThe time delay depends on why the association wants to file and lien, and against what property title.When the association wants to cloud the title to a property owned by someone who is in arrears for paying assessments, the time is defined in your governing documents.Filing a lien, however, is one of the last actions that the association may take. The final action being foreclosure on the home, to sell it in order to collect past due amounts.Finally, you are best advised to work with your association's association-savvy attorney, to insure that the correct lien for the correct amount is filed properly in order to protect the association.
Yes. It's called a special assessment, which each unit owner is required to pay.
The city itself does not; however, much of the new home construction in the Raleigh area is going to be subdevelopments which are subject to a Homeowner's Association, and they may have such ordinances.
Yes, and your voting rights are based on the notion of your 'allocated interest' in your communal ownership of the assets of the association. Your governing documents set out your voting rights and responsibilities, together with a full description of the voting power of your individual 'allocated interest'.
In our little corner of the world we define/clarify a homeowner as the owner of record on the deed. So, yes, in our neck of the woods, you would have to actually be listed on the deed to be considered the "homeowner" that is eligible to be on the board, if our governing documents restricted directors to association members. If you are not listed on the deed, you are not a member of our association, even though you may be married to the person listed on the title/deed. If you're name isn't on there with him/her, then you are not a qualified owner/member of the association. However, our directors are not required to be association homeowners/members, so a spouse of a member could run for our board of directors.