Florida HOA Ban Sees Pushback
September 20, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster Florida was always on my wish list of places to move to later in life, but given what is happening down there with insurance rates, the idea of ever owning property in the sunshine state is on pause, at least for the time [...]
Sunbelt States Assess Highest HOA Fees
September 19, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster We recently blogged about the fact that recent data has revealed a quarter of US homes are paying more than $500 per month in HOA fees (HERE). But the same US Census survey data also shows that the 21.6 million households that paid [...]
HOALN and Realtors Unite
September 19, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster HOALN President Lynn Boergerhoff and I had the pleasure of presenting to the Minnesota Realtors Unite Conference in Brooklyn Park on September 18. The hour long session, which we presented twice during the conference, was designed to provide realtors with more information on [...]
$4.5 Million Sought in Housing Development Fraud
September 17, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster Lakeville is apparently the fastest growing city in Minnesota, and if my biking trips around the city are any indication, it appears that most of what's being built are HOAs. Turns out that some developers are taking advantage of the fast-changing environment in [...]
HOA Fees Top $500 per Month
September 14, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster According to a recent Realtor.com article, more than a quarter of homes in the USA are paying an HOA fee, and now comes data that shows 3 million of our homes have a minimum $500 monthly fee attached to them. The District of [...]
How’s Your HOA Communications?
September 10, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster Sad to hear, but there's data showing a majority of HOA problems, some 30-60% based on estimates, arise due to poor communications from HOA boards. While I'm sure many of our HOA leaders are great communicators, it is an area in which we [...]
