CODES

California Common Interest Development — Homeowner’s Guide

Publisher: Thomson-West Legal Publishers
Author: Donie Vanitzian
Available: Thompson West Inside Sales  800-328-9352  X76432, ask for Mike

SUMMARY & TABLE OF CONTENTS::

• Part I. Common Interest Developments As Corporations: The Apparatus Of Governance

1. Association Essentials
2. Meetings
3. Minutes
4. Voting And Elections
5. Board Of Directors

• Part II, Operations, Authority and Control

6. Internal Management

• Part III- Pre-litigation and Representation

7. Inspection Of Public Records
8. Arbitration And Dispute Resolution
9. Time Shares and Mobilehomcs
10. Representation, Investigation and Discovery

• Appendix 1 Tragedy of the Commons
• Appendix 2 Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act
• Appendix 3 Board Powers And Procedures
• Appendix 4 Member Meetings And Voting
• Appendix 5 Association Records
• Appendix 6 Association Taxation
• Appendix 7 Litigation
• Appendix 8 Construction Defects
• Appendix 9 Civil Rights And Restrictions
• Appendix 10 Removal Of Vehicles From Common Interest Developments
• Appendix 11 Manager Provisions
• Table of Laws and Rules
• Table of Cases
• Index

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Villa Appalling: Destroying the Myth of Affordable Community Living

Publisher: Thomson-West Legal Publishers
Author: Donie Vanitzian & Sephen Glassman
Available: Amazon.com

Touted as “The Ultimate Buyer and Consumer Beware Book,” Villa Appalling is a timely and critical expose of buying and living in deed-restricted communities. It contains road maps for boards of directors in recognizing their fiduciary duties and how to deal with management companies and “vendor vultures.” This book destroys myths that such living arrangements allow for greater owner “freedoms” and “independence,” but instead promote “dependence,” destroying individual personal freedoms. The book addresses “hard” topics like management companies, advisors, attorneys and neighbors. Many homeowner associations routinely trample what few rights an owner might have. Owners need to recognize those rights, but can only do so with the proper “information.” Villa Appalling explains that, in an association environment. “Information is tantamount to autonomy. Information is the only tool you will need and not get. Information is money. Information is worth money and information can cost you money.” The authors successfully obliterate myths that such purchases and living conditions are “affordable” or that the condo, townhouse, co-op, mobile home, empty lot, or other common-interest, deed-restricted property is an “investment.” A must-read for anyone considering a purchase of such property, or presently living in a deed-restricted property or who knows anyone who does.

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Defend Your Condo & Homeowner Rights!
What you must do when the board turns your life upside down.

Publisher: Joyce Starr Publishing
Author: Dr. Joyce Starr
Available: Joyce Starr Publishing, ph: 786.693.4223
or at Barnes & Noble

From page 119:
The situation is often so mean-spirited and illogical that it defies understanding… A homeowner wrote to me: “My life is effectively over on every level. Who cares if I live or die or have a stroke or a heart attack or end up in the poor house. I don’t see life the way I did before. This case has destroyed my life. I have not had one minute of joy, of friendship. I have never been so attacked and isolated. They destroyed the life I had. I am are getting weaker by the day, by the hour. My insides are like shards of glass.”

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2009 Condominium Bluebook

The guide for California homeowner associations, owners and directors of planned developments, condos, co-ops, townhomes and loft developments. 

Publisher: Piedmont Press
Authors: Branden E. Bickel and D. Andrew Sirkin
Available: Piedmont Press, ph: 510.595.8400
or at Barnes & Noble and other bookstores

Please Note: This publication is a compilation of statutes currently in force in California. The information contained in this book may not be sufficient to address a particular problem and user is encouraged to consult a licensed attorney for legal advice.