Meetings in a non-profit HOA company
By Anton Kelly Home owners’ associations that are non-profit companies must deliver the notice for a members’ meeting, such as the AGM, 15 business days before the meeting. Right, seems simple enough. But is it?
Fiduciary duties of HOA executives
By the Newsletter team Common law states that a Home Owners’ Association (HOA) executive has a special legal relationship to their HOA. They owe the HOA a duty of trust, reasonable skill and confidentiality. This is referred to as the “fiduciary relationship” and it implies that the executive must put the interests of the HOA…
Q&A with the Prof – 2012 03
By Prof Graham Paddock Below is an example of two of the questions on the discussion forum on Paddocks Club. We want to show what is available to our Community Members!
Perceived value of property
By Pierre Heistein Economic growth and poverty alleviation in South Africa could be helped by converting untitled land lived on by the poor into property rights for those who reside there. In this, I am aware that there are certain limitations or side-effects and it is one of these that I would like to pick…