When Evening Calls
March 22, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster If there's one thing that we've heard over and over again at the HOA Leadership Network, it's: "When are you going to have a meeting that's at night so I can attend?" Welp, as we say in Minnesota, we've got that now. New [...]
Changes to Fannie/Freddie
March 20, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster A number of changes have been announced regarding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans that affect condo and townhome communities with such loans. Overall they can impact your reserve funding, insurance and the condition of the property, e.g. maintenance. Our sponsor, SJJ Law [...]
Oppose SF1750
March 20, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster Welcome to spring! We made it! But, I'm sorry to say, what's springing up mostly these days is HOA reform legislation in St. Paul during the latest legislative session. Frankly it's hard to keep up with all the bills and the amendments and [...]
Data Center Down
March 19, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster We've been watching the data center incursion across the metro, as they seem to want to crop up in places that crowd the lifestyles of HOAs that are also exploding into empty farm fields across the state. The latest one, and now a [...]
Alternative HOA Legislation SF4035
March 19, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster There's a bevy of HOA reform bills coursing through St. Paul. Frankly it's hard to keep up. The largest and possibly most controversial is SF1750, which cleared a House committee yesterday and is on its way to Judiciary. HOALN provided written testimony against [...]
SF 1750 Clears Committee
March 18, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster I watched the live session the House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee meeting this morning, and the author, Kristin Bahner, DFL, Maple Grove, entered an "amendment to the amendment" to SF1750, the long and windy bill that seeks to [...]
