Whois & Analysis for associationvoice.com

In the United States, a homeowner association (HOA) is a private association formed by a real estate developer for the purpose of marketing, managing, and selling homes and lots in a residential subdivision.

It grants the developer privileged voting rights in governing the association, while allowing the developer to exit financial and legal responsibility of the organization.

Typically the developer will transfer ownership of the association to the homeowners after selling a predetermined number of lots.

Generally any person who wants to buy a residence within the area of a homeowners association must become a member, and therefore must obey the several restrictions that often limit the owner's choices.

Most homeowner associations are incorporated, and are subject to state statutes that govern non-profit corporations and homeowner associations.

State oversight of homeowner associations is minimal, and it varies from state to state.

Some states, such as Florida and California, have a large body of HOA law.

Other states, such as Massachusetts, have virtually no HOA law.

Homeowners associations are primarily associated with mid- and late 20th-century and 21st-century residential development.

The Community Associations Institute (CAI) is an influential trade association and special interest group headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, with about 60 chapters in the United States that provides "education and resources to the volunteer homeowners who govern community associations", and petitions for legislative and regulatory beneficence for its members.

A company, abbreviated co., is a legal entity made up of an association of people, be they natural, legal, or a mixture of both, for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise.

Company members share a common purpose and unite in order to focus their various talents and organize their collectively available skills or resources to achieve specific, declared goals.

Companies take various forms such as: