J. Patrick Sutton Cases & Issues Blog

The Pace of Angry Change Ramps Up

Just my observation over the past couple of years, and quickening substantially since Donald J. Trump won the Republican nomination: Baby boomers with the time and wherewithal are taking over condos and HOA boards, and they are champing at the bit to remake their communities into the narrow slice of humanity that reflects their own demographic. I see it in a hundred little things and with almost every new HOA case I handle or consult I have. The single most persistent theme is the desire to transform ordinary condos and subdivisions into owner-occupied, single-family communities, where renting of any kind is forbidden and where new rules are imposed requiring some form of blood relation and permanent, full-time owner occupancy even to the exclusion of part-time owners. It is a stunning development, and it is generating a lot of courtroom brawls.
J. Patrick Sutton Cases & Issues Blog