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Understanding them before you buy — or before your next renewal — is the most practical form of buyer protection available."}],"\n",["$","h2",null,{"id":"reserve-study-showing-percent-funded-below-30","children":"Reserve Study Showing Percent-Funded Below 30%"}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"The reserve study is the starting point. It inventories the association's major capital components, estimates their remaining useful life and replacement cost, and recommends how much the association should be contributing annually to stay on track. The \"percent funded\" figure — the ratio of current reserves to the projected need at this point in the components' life cycle — is the primary health indicator."}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"Below 70% is generally considered underfunded. Below 30% is the threshold where most reserve specialists and lenders begin treating shortfall as a meaningful near-term risk. Below 10% is severe. The Champlain Towers South association, which collapsed in Surfside, Florida in 2021, was estimated at approximately 6.9% funded, with roughly $706,000 in reserves against a projected capital need of approximately $10.3 million. That gap had been accumulating for years."}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"A low percent-funded figure does not guarantee a near-term assessment — it depends on what components are approaching replacement and how aggressively the board is closing the gap. But it does mean the cushion is thin, and any unexpected capital event will likely produce an assessment where a better-funded association would absorb it from reserves."}],"\n",["$","h2",null,{"id":"reserve-contribution-line-below-the-reserve-studys-recommendation","children":"Reserve Contribution Line Below the Reserve Study's Recommendation"}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"The percent-funded figure is a snapshot. The reserve contribution in the operating budget tells you which direction the association is heading. If the reserve study recommends a $200,000 annual contribution to stay on track and the operating budget shows $120,000, the association is falling further behind by $80,000 every year — regardless of whether the current percent-funded number looks passable."}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"This gap is one of the most common and most underread warning signs in a resale document package. Boards frequently approve contributions below the study's recommendation to keep dues from increasing. The shortfall is real; it is simply being deferred. Buyers who compare the budget contribution line to the reserve study's recommended contribution are seeing something most other buyers miss."}],"\n",["$","h2",null,{"id":"meeting-minutes-referencing-deferred-or-tabled-capital-projects","children":"Meeting Minutes Referencing Deferred or Tabled Capital Projects"}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"Board meeting minutes record decisions — including the decision not to decide. The language matters. When minutes show that a capital project has been \"tabled pending review of reserve funds,\" \"deferred to the next budget cycle,\" or \"postponed subject to further contractor bids,\" the board has documented awareness of a cost it has not yet funded."}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"A single deferral is not necessarily alarming. A pattern of deferrals across multiple meetings — the same roofing replacement, the same elevator modernization, the same waterproofing project appearing in minutes across two or three consecutive years without a resolution — is the document-level equivalent of a bill that keeps arriving and keeps being set aside. The bill does not go away. It accumulates interest in the form of deterioration and eventually demands payment, usually through an assessment."}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"Look specifically for this type of language in minutes you are reviewing: \"The board discussed the pending roofing replacement and agreed to defer a decision until the reserve fund position improves.\" Or: \"The question of elevator modernization was tabled to allow further review of financing options.\" Those sentences are telling you something about the association's trajectory."}],"\n",["$","h2",null,{"id":"structural-engineer-engagements-without-follow-up","children":"Structural Engineer Engagements Without Follow-Up"}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"When a board retains a structural or building envelope engineer, it typically does so because something has prompted concern — a visual defect, a unit owner complaint, a regulatory requirement, or a prior inspection finding. The engagement itself is not a red flag. The absence of any follow-up in subsequent minutes is."}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"A structural engineer's report, received at a board meeting and not referenced again in the following six to twelve months of minutes, suggests one of several possibilities: the findings were minor, the findings were significant and the board has not yet decided how to address them, or the findings were significant and the discussion has moved off the record. The second and third scenarios both carry assessment risk. In the Florida post-Surfside environment, an engineer report that prompts no documented board action should receive particular scrutiny — the statutory obligations under Chapter 718 for buildings three stories and above are specific about what is required after certain findings."}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"Request copies of any engineering reports referenced in the minutes. 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If insurance has increased meaningfully while the reserve contribution has stayed flat or declined, the association has been trading reserve adequacy for dues stability. That trade-off is a deferred assessment."}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"In Florida, where master-policy premiums rose approximately 18% in 2025, and in Texas, where average homeowner premiums climbed roughly 22% in 2023, this pattern has been particularly common. Associations in both states have absorbed insurance shock through reserve contribution cuts rather than dues increases, making their reserve positions weaker just as capital needs are accelerating."}],"\n",["$","h2",null,{"id":"vendor-disputes-escalating-to-litigation","children":"Vendor Disputes Escalating to Litigation"}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"When an association sues a contractor or is sued by one, the legal proceedings generate costs — attorney fees, potential judgments, and management distraction — that the operating budget may not have anticipated. Litigation also sometimes signals a larger underlying problem: a construction defect that is more extensive than initially assessed, a scope dispute over a major capital project, or a warranty claim that has not been resolved. Look in the minutes for any references to legal proceedings involving vendors, contractors, or former management companies. Look in the financial statements for a legal-expense line that is materially higher than prior years. The notes to an audited financial statement will disclose significant pending litigation."}],"\n",["$","h2",null,{"id":"chronic-quorum-problems-in-board-meetings","children":"Chronic Quorum Problems in Board Meetings"}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"An association that cannot regularly assemble a quorum for its board meetings is one where governance has effectively broken down. Decisions are being deferred, not because the board is deliberating carefully but because the board cannot legally act. Deferred decisions in a building with aging infrastructure and rising insurance costs are not neutral — they allow costs to accumulate without a funding plan."}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"Look in the minutes for language indicating that meetings were adjourned for lack of quorum, that a quorum was barely achieved with specific names noted, or that positions on the board are vacant and unfilled. A single quorum failure is unremarkable. A pattern of them across six to twelve months of minutes indicates the board is functionally impaired, and deferred capital decisions in that context carry assessment risk."}],"\n",["$","h2",null,{"id":"the-florida-sirs-driven-assessment-wave","children":"The Florida SIRS-Driven Assessment Wave"}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"Florida buyers should treat the assessment warning signs above as particularly urgent, because the state's Structural Integrity Reserve Study mandate under Chapter 718 is producing a wave of catch-up assessments across older buildings. Associations that were previously waiving reserve contributions — a common practice before the post-Surfside legislative reforms — are now legally required to fund the structural components covered by the SIRS. The gap between historical contributions and current obligations is real, large, and in many cases cannot be closed through ordinary dues increases alone."}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"HB 913, which took effect in July 2025, extended some SIRS compliance deadlines by two years. But the funding obligation itself was not reduced. Boards that have used the extension to delay rather than to plan are likely to face a compressed funding timeline as the new deadline approaches. For buyers of pre-1990 Florida condo buildings, reviewing the SIRS and the board's funded response to it is not optional."}],"\n",["$","h2",null,{"id":"texas-and-arizona-assessment-risk-without-a-visible-study","children":"Texas and Arizona: Assessment Risk Without a Visible Study"}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"In Texas and Arizona, where reserve studies and reserve funding are voluntary, the warning signs are harder to read because the framework that makes them visible in Florida often does not exist. An association with no reserve study has no \"percent funded\" figure. An association that has never commissioned an engineer to review its major components has no formal capital projection to compare against its reserve balance."}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"That does not mean assessment risk is lower — it means the disclosure is thinner. In Texas and Arizona, the leading indicators shift to the meeting minutes (references to deferred repairs and capital discussions), the insurance line trend in the budget (a proxy for cost pressure), and the age and condition of the building's major systems. A 30-year-old Texas condo building with no reserve study, a flat reserve contribution in the budget, and three years of rising insurance premiums is carrying real assessment risk that the documents will not disclose in a structured way — but will reveal if you read them carefully."}],"\n",["$","hr",null,{}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"This article identifies patterns in association documents that have historically preceded special assessments. It is not financial or legal advice. If your document review surfaces any of these patterns, consult a real estate attorney or reserve specialist before closing."}],"\n",["$","p",null,{"children":"Upload your condo or HOA documents for a free risk review at CondoSignal. We cross-reference reserve studies, budgets, and meeting minutes to surface assessment risk before it becomes your problem."}],"\n",["$","h2",null,{"id":"sources","children":"Sources"}],"\n",["$","ul",null,{"children":["\n",["$","li",null,{"children":[["$","a",null,{"href":"https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0718/Sections/0718.112.html","children":"Florida Statute §718.112 — Bylaws; structural integrity reserve study"}]," — supports the SIRS mandate and reserve-funding requirement discussion"]}],"\n",["$","li",null,{"children":[["$","a",null,{"href":"https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/913","children":"Florida HB 913 (2025) — Condominium Associations"}]," — supports the SIRS compliance deadline extension discussion"]}],"\n",["$","li",null,{"children":[["$","a",null,{"href":"https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022D/4D","children":"Florida SB 4-D (2022 Special Session) — Condominium Safety"}]," — supports the post-Surfside reserve-funding reform discussion"]}],"\n",["$","li",null,{"children":[["$","a",null,{"href":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.82.htm","children":"Texas Property Code Chapter 82 — Uniform Condominium Act"}]," — supports the Texas voluntary-reserve framework discussion"]}],"\n",["$","li",null,{"children":[["$","a",null,{"href":"https://www.azleg.gov/ars/33/01260.htm","children":"Arizona Revised Statutes §33-1260 — Resale of units; disclosure"}]," — supports the Arizona disclosure requirement and voluntary-reserve framework discussion"]}],"\n"]}]]
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