Notes from self-managed Texas boards.

Terminating a Texas HOA management contract requires a board vote, proper notice, and a structured document handover. Here is the step-by-step process and the mistakes that delay it.

Texas HOA management companies perform five core functions. Here is what each one involves, what it costs to replace, and which ones your board can realistically handle without them.

Self-managed Texas HOA boards need a CPA for tax filing, financial reviews, and reserve planning. Here is when to hire one, what to expect it to cost, and what you can handle without one.

A line-by-line cost comparison between hiring a Texas HOA management company and self-managing with software. Real numbers, not sales pitches.

Texas Property Code §209.007 requires HOA boards to send evidence packets at least 10 days before a violation hearing. Here is what goes in the packet, how to prove delivery, and what happens when you skip it.

SB 1588 limits what personal information Texas HOAs can collect from tenants and how boards can regulate leasing. Here is what your board can require, what it cannot, and how to store tenant data safely.

Texas law limits what HOA boards can restrict when homeowners install security devices. Here is what your board can regulate, what it cannot, and how to handle security contracts.

Texas law protects homeowner religious displays from HOA restrictions. Here is what your board can regulate, what it cannot, and how to update your policies to comply with §202.018.

Texas HOA boards must give homeowners 30 days' written notice and a payment plan offer before reporting delinquent assessments to a credit bureau. Here is the full process.

Texas HOA boards must give homeowners 144 hours' notice before board meetings. Here is how to count the hours, what delivery methods qualify, and what happens when you miss.

Texas law caps HOA resale certificate fees at $375 for originals and $30 for updates. Here is what the caps cover, when the clock starts, and what your board can charge.

Texas HOA boards cannot fine homeowners without a specific sequence of notice, cure period, and hearing. Here is the procedure Chapter 209 requires.

Texas HOA management certificates must be filed with both TREC and the county clerk. Here is what to file, when to refile, and what breaks if you skip it.

Texas HB 621 limits what HOA boards can restrict when homeowners want to hold political gatherings in common areas. Here is what your board can and cannot do.

What Texas Senate Bill 1588 actually changed, what your board has to do about it, and how to prove you did it. The checklist version — not the law review article.

Texas SB 711 rewrote how HOA architectural review committees operate. Open meetings, written criteria, conflict disclosures — here is what your board must do now.