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HOA Home Owners Push for Workable Dispute Resolution
Posted 10-05-2014 at 09:30 AM by coloradohoaforum
Updated 11-01-2014 at 03:19 PM by coloradohoaforum
Updated 11-01-2014 at 03:19 PM by coloradohoaforum
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]Colorado home owners mostly live under Homeowners Association (HOA) governance. This living environment has many advantages but one trait currently gives HOAs a deserved bad name. [U] If a home owner has a dispute with their HOA Board or property management company (PMC) they are mostly left with only our costly, litigious, and time consuming court system which doesn't work for home owners. It's the HOA's unlimited funds and HOA attorney(s) against the lone home owner![/U] The Colorado State HOA Office completed a mandated study on dispute resolution offering several out of court solutions. One recommendation was an [URL="http://www.coloradohoaforum.com/outofcourtbinding.html"] out of court binding dispute resolution process [/URL]whereby complaints are filed and settled in an out of court venue at an affordable cost. Home owners could still opt to go to court but why would you? Home owners also don't want a dispute resolution process that is based on the hope of a solution that costs them hundreds of dollars without any guarantee of a decision or a decision that is in many cases not legally binding or ignored by an HOA Board bringing the home owner to our court system to re-litigate or get enforcement (mediation). [/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]Home owners deserve a process already used in Colorado for some professions and is planned for HOA PMC complaints: out of court [U]binding[/U] dispute resolution (some refer to a arbitration). It's quick, fair, low cost, non-litigious, doesn't require high cost lawyers, no cost to taxpayers, and renders finality to a complaint. [/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]The solution to HOA complaint resolution only awaits legislator sponsorship. The main obstacle to date has been the Community Association Institute (CAI) that represents property managers (and also the legal community). Again, our organization, Colorado HOA Forum, [URL="http://www.coloradohoaforum.com"]www.coloradohoaforum.com[/URL] will be lobbying legislators to put the rights of home owners ahead of the agenda of the CAI.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]Home owners deserve a process already used in Colorado for some professions and is planned for HOA PMC complaints: out of court [U]binding[/U] dispute resolution (some refer to a arbitration). It's quick, fair, low cost, non-litigious, doesn't require high cost lawyers, no cost to taxpayers, and renders finality to a complaint. [/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]The solution to HOA complaint resolution only awaits legislator sponsorship. The main obstacle to date has been the Community Association Institute (CAI) that represents property managers (and also the legal community). Again, our organization, Colorado HOA Forum, [URL="http://www.coloradohoaforum.com"]www.coloradohoaforum.com[/URL] will be lobbying legislators to put the rights of home owners ahead of the agenda of the CAI.[/FONT][/COLOR]
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