HOA Voting / household or couple

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MarcoS2 (Washington)
Posts: 27

Posted:

question: our small HOA is holding our annual meeting on Jan 3 ....93 properties, 77 primary residence homes (16 empty lots) ....as we have to dig into our CC&Rs & ByLaws to look into what I'm about to ask, I'm going to ask in a GENERAL HOA voting aspect, does voting = a single vote per household ? (ie: any of the 77 homes) or if a married couple are joint owners of the home like most are, both the husband & the wife can vote ? .....as I mentioned, we have to dig into our CC&Rs and ByLaws but I'd like to get this forums opinion on this, so all feedback & fact appreciated ....to note: for our 16 empty lots, no voting allowed, as you have to build & maintain a home in our HOA to vote ....THANK YOU all for the assist here ....

MichaelT21 (Arkansas)
Posts: 462

Posted:

Our HOA CC&Rs state that there is one vote per property. If there are two or more owners of a property, they have to discuss among themselves and submit a single vote. If they submit separate votes, then all votes are nullifed.

We are in Washington.

MarcoS2 (Washington)
Posts: 27

Posted:

thank you Michael, we are in Washington as well ....and I found it definitively in our HOA Articles Of Incorporation: one for for each Lot owned ....which make perfect sense, but we will now have to make sure the vested deed & tax assessed owners of the empty lots get to vote, as our HOA was under the assumption "undeveloped" lot owners cannot vote until they build a home on said lot ....

CathyA3 (Ohio)
Posts: 6,299

Posted:

Your governing documents will tell you exactly how your particular community has to handle this.

The large majority of HOAs assign one vote per home/lot. If multiple persons own a single home, they have to decide among themselves how to cast their single vote.

There can be exceptions to this. For example, if the developer of the community is still involved, that person may have multiple votes. Some communities may have sections that are significantly different from each other where voting may be handled differently. Or there may be a commercial section of the community and the commercial property owner has multiple votes. But these are not your typical HOA that is under homeowner control.

MichaelS56 (Minnesota)
Posts: 858

Posted:

Same as Michael. One per property.

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