Re: Construction - defects bill hits snag, May 6, Denver Post

Our letter to the Denver Post concerning their problem of excluding HOA home owner's input into the Construction Defects Legislation issue and including the Community Association Institute (CAI) that represents HOA property managers and lawyers (NOT home owners) into the discussion. No matter how many times the post reporters are apprised of this concern they continue to seek out the CAI to represent home owners.
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We have received several emails that have asked why we haven't been excited about HB 16-1217 (see below). The presentation of this Bill is that it will change things for home owners; it will implement the significant components of the State HOA Study 2013; and it will improve upon home owner's rights and an ability to resolve HOA disputes out of court. Unfortunately, none of this is fact and HB 16-1217 is more "feel good" legislation than impacting. You make the call. We would like...

HB 16-1133 was defeated in Committee, February 22, 2016. This Bill was simple, no burden on businesses or taxpayers, and [B]only required HOA property managers[/B] (PM), also known as Community Association Managers, [B]to provide a detailed receipt to home owners when fees are paid. [/B] The Bill did not preclude any fees from being charged or limit amounts: just provide a detailed receipt of work completed. The Bill was intended to mitigate the practice of HOA PM's duplicate and triplicate billing...

Here we go again, [URL="http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2016a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FDA10030B4E961CD87257F2400659933?open&file=1217_01.pdf"][COLOR=#0066cc]HOUSE BILL 16-1217[/COLOR][/URL] is another HOA Bill introduced this session that sounds good, feels good, but will have zero affect on resolving any HOA home owner's issue. This will make it three administrative, un-impacting HOA Bills this session. This Bill will provide: 1) optional rate structures for HOA registration fees...

The Colorado legislature will consider three home owner's association (HOA) Bills this session. Two will be mostly administrative and one could serve to be the most impacting HOA legislation of the past 20 years improving upon responsibilities and accountability in the HOA property manager industry and the potential to save HOA home owners millions of dollars annually.

SB 16-082, HOA Whistleblower (intimidation) Protection, and HB 16-1149, Remove Budget Reporting Exemption HOAs Predate...