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Posted By JamesG on 03/05/2018 8:56 AM
What is even more relevant are the age restrictions in your Declaration. Most age restricted developments require an over-55 resident but also set minimum age limits (such as must be over 21) on others residing in the home. Check you legal documents. The 20% allowable is designed to deal with situations such as a spouse dying, leaving a spouse not yet age 55. It is not there to allow sales to under-55 buyers in violation to the community age restrictions.
I live in the original 55+. We require a person over 55 in every home. (see question 16 of the link). That is also a county ordinance. Several hundred people have to leave every year( we have over 27,000 houses and condos), sometimes with the sheriff involved. Sometimes there are liens placed on the property.
If the person over 55 leaves for any length of time the underage must leave. There is some kind of loophole for hospitalization and nursing homes. That is to prevent someone buying a home for the kids and just stopping in once in awhile and saying they live there.
You have to be 19 or older to live here.
A widowed underage spouse can stay unless they remarry a person under 55.
I had one in my condo association. He always lived with his mom. She died and he was only 46. He quit opening his mail. Every warning(charge for each warning after the 1st) that wasn't paid was another lien. When he found out about the liens he was shocked. I guess he didn't think they were serious. He paid them off and sold.