Education

Some Nevada HOAs continue to hold virtual-only board meetings even after emergency orders have ended—excluding homeowners and weakening transparency. Learn why this practice is legally questionable and how reform is needed.

NRS 116.757’s blanket secrecy walls investigative records, eroding homeowner trust and oversight. Learn how NVHOAReform seeks clarity, transparency, and accountability.

The danger here isn’t just that courts may misread the law- that happens. It’s that they may stop reading it altogether. While courts must interpret statutes, they must also respect them. The NV Supreme Court has gutted ADR protections in HOA disputes. This blog explores how the Court’s ruling reclassifies statutory mandates, weakens legislative authority, and favors procedural gamesmanship—calling for legislative action to restore balance.

Explore the debate over HOA declaration amendment thresholds—balancing majority rule, minority rights, and governance stability. What should the law require?

Should HOA declarations require a supermajority to amend? Explore both sides of this debate and learn how Nevada’s NRS 116.21175 offers a court-reviewed path around amendment gridlock—balancing majority rule with minority rights.

Nevada law allows HOA declarations to be amended with court approval even without a supermajority vote. Learn how NRS 116.21175 works—and how minority owners can protect their rights.

Nevada HOA board members are shielded by the Business Judgment Rule—but when does that protection end? Learn how law, ethics, and oversight intersect.

Nevada’s HOA system is broken—weak oversight, regulatory secrecy, and unchecked power threaten homeowner rights. Learn why reform must begin with transparency.

The shift to virtual-only HOA board meetings in Nevada—initially allowed as a public health necessity during COVID-19—has evolved into a de facto norm for many associations. Nevada regulators and/or lawmakers should consider aligning NRS 116 with modern best practices by promoting hybrid accessibility models that preserve transparency and owner participation.

Nevada’s HOA justice system burdens owners through litigation and abdicated oversight. Learn how cost-shifting and regulatory failure fuel legal inequality.

Courts treat CC&Rs that create HOAs as binding contractual obligations—even though homeowners lack real bargaining power and did not negotiate the terms. This post critiques the dominant legal justification of constructive consent and explores reforms. HOA law must evolve.

HOA owner needs to be aware of systemic delegation of decision-making authority from elected volunteer boards to contracted managers and attorneys. several practical actions owners can take to challenge the informal control.

Nevada HOA Boards can take any action, to include approval of major contracts, without meeting or providing advance notice to owners. But should they? In my opinion this provides an unguarded door to abuse that for too long has been in need of closure.

Nevada COI laws favor declarant-appointed directors. Nevada law imposes a fiduciary duty on all HOA board members but the reality is that appointed directors faces potential challenges that could make him/her conflicted in exercising independent judgment.

Declarant-appointed directors fiduciary duties are owed to the association as a whole, meaning all unit owners—not just the declarant.

HOA owners in Nevada, understanding how anti-SLAPP laws work can be a valuable tool in protecting free speech.

Expanding private enforcement of HOA laws threatens judicial fairness, raises costs, and undermines public oversight in Nevada.

How declarant control of an HOA is determined and effectively be indefinite

A developer can effectively control an HOA indefinitely- even after the end of the "Declarant's Control Period"

Much confusion and misinformation exist around developer control of HOAs and the now infamous legislation, AB 192 (2015).   First, it is...