Over the past few years, I have read many comments on Facebook and twitter from frustrated members of HOAs who apparently have lost their Constitutional rights to protect the value of their properties. The E-Book available from my website deals with overcoming this problem; but, it is important for members to to understand how they are losing these rights. The State laws that I have reviewed for Washington and Oregon clearly provide the language that should protect members f

It does not take much time for a self-serving HOA Board to develop a collective mindset that discourages any participation from members who disagree with the rules and/or practices that the Board adopts over time. In fact, in most of these situations, the Boards have ignored their HOAs' governing documents, State and County laws because these Boards have never read them. Imagine if you can, that the Board of a self-managed HOA has Directors who have full-time obligations else