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New Hampshire condo resale certificate review
New Hampshire does not use a single 'resale certificate' form. The functional equivalent is the RSA 356-B:58 resale disclosure packet, which a condominium resale buyer may demand from the association before the contract date and which the association's principal officer must furnish within 10 days of written request.
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It must include a statement of unpaid assessments on the unit, anticipated capital and major-maintenance expenditures in the current and succeeding two fiscal years, the reserve or replacement-fund status and amount (and any earmarked portion), the association's last-fiscal-year income statement and balance sheet, pending litigation in which the association is a party defendant, the insurance coverage, the declaration, bylaws and formal rules, and monthly or annual fees plus special assessments made within the last three years. Two limits matter most: the packet applies to condominiums only — non-condo HOAs have no equivalent statutory right — and it carries no rescission. New Hampshire's only statutory cancellation right is the 5-day rescission on developer sales (RSA 356-B:52), so on a resale your only exit is the contract's contingencies.
What RSA 356-B:58 requires the packet to contain
On any resale by someone other than the declarant, the buyer may demand a packet that covers unpaid assessments on the unit, anticipated capital and major-maintenance expenditures over the current and succeeding two fiscal years, the reserve or replacement-fund status and amount, the association's last-year income statement and balance sheet, pending litigation in which the association is a party defendant, the insurance coverage, the declaration, bylaws and formal rules, and monthly or annual fees plus three years of special-assessment history. Note the litigation field is defendant-only — it does not disclose suits the association has brought, such as construction-defect or collection actions — so request those separately.
The 10-day delivery rule
The association's principal officer must furnish the RSA 356-B:58 statement within 10 days of a prospective buyer's written request, and the demand must be made before the contract date. Build the written request into the contract timeline so the 10-day clock runs and the packet arrives with room to read it before your contingencies expire. Late delivery beyond the 10-day window is itself a signal worth probing, and on smaller or self-managed associations the request may need to go to the board directly.
No statutory rescission on a resale
Unlike the developer-sale public offering statement, which triggers a 5-day rescission that cannot be waived (RSA 356-B:52), the RSA 356-B:58 resale packet grants no statutory cancellation right. Once you are under contract on a resale, your only protection is the purchase agreement's contingencies — there is no Title-XXXI exit tied to the documents. Negotiate document-review and inspection contingencies into the agreement and calendar them against the 10-day delivery window.
Read the packet together, and ask for what it omits
New Hampshire risk rarely lives in one line. Read the reserve-status statement against the building's age and the RSA 356-B:40-c reserve basis — remembering no reserve study is required, so a missing study is legal but a real red flag. Read the insurance statement against the RSA 356-B:43 full-replacement floor and the master declarations page. Because the litigation disclosure is defendant-only, request a full pending-litigation summary plus the delinquency ledger, which bears on the fragile RSA 356-B:46 super-lien. A clean-looking packet on an aging mill conversion or snow-stressed roof can still carry significant special-assessment risk.
New Hampshire legal references
- RSA 356-B:58 — Resale by Purchaser; disclosure packet; 10-day delivery
- RSA 356-B:52 — Public Offering Statement; 5-day developer rescission
- RSA 356-B — New Hampshire Condominium Act (Table of Contents)
Informational only. Not legal advice. Always confirm against current statute and counsel.
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- Confirm the property is a condominium (RSA 356-B:58 applies) or a non-condo HOA (no statutory packet)
- Demand the RSA 356-B:58 packet in writing before the contract date (furnished within 10 days)
- Confirm the packet includes reserves, two-year capex, financials, litigation, and insurance
- Build document-review and inspection contingencies into the contract (no resale rescission)
- Read the reserve-status statement against the building's age and major components
- Request any reserve study, recognizing none is required in New Hampshire
- Read the insurance statement against the RSA 356-B:43 full-replacement floor
- Request a full pending-litigation summary — the packet discloses defendant-only suits
- Request the delinquency ledger to gauge the RSA 356-B:46 super-lien picture
- Review the three-year special-assessment history and any pending special
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- Declaration & bylawsthe rules
- Budget & financialsthe money
- Reserve studythe big repairs
- Meeting minuteswhat the board fears
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