Aging building stock
In the 2020 Census, San Marcos had 27,736 total housing units, of which 70.5% were in multi-unit structures (buildings with 2 or more units), indicating a predominantly multifamily housing stock.
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San Marcos condo and HOA documents carry Texas-specific risks a generic Texas review misses: In the 2020 Census, San Marcos had 27,736 total housing units, of which 70.5% were in multi-unit structures (buildings with 2 or more units), indicating a predominantly multifamily housing stock; According to the 2020 ACS DP04 table, 35.3% of San Marcos housing units were built in 2000 or later and 27.4% were built before 1980, meaning more than one-third of the city's stock is post-2000 construction while roughly one-quarter predates 1980. A San Marcos document review focuses on the building-, insurance-, and governance-level facts that actually drive your out-of-pocket exposure.
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FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps designate portions of San Marcos along the San Marcos River and nearby creeks as Special Flood Hazard Areas (Zone AE), meaning buildings and associations in these mapped areas face a 1% annual chance flood risk with associated NFIP insurance and disclosure implications.
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Texas condo document review
Before you close on a Texas condominium, state law gives you the right to request a specific set of documents — and a narrow window to review them. The Texas Uniform Condominium Act (Chapter 82, Texas Property Code) governs what the association must disclose and what the seller is required to provide. Unlike Florida, Texas imposes no statutory reserve requirement, so the financial health of the community depends almost entirely on what you uncover in the documents themselves.
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Texas condo insurance risk
Texas homeowners and condo owners are paying significantly more for insurance than they were five years ago. Average homeowner premiums in the state rose from roughly $2,124 in 2021 to approximately $3,291 by 2024, and condo master policy costs have followed the same trajectory. Before closing on a Texas condominium, verifying the association's current master policy — its coverage amounts, deductible structure, and carrier stability — is one of the most consequential items in your due-diligence checklist.
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Condo document review
A condo document review is the structured analysis of every disclosure document your seller or association has provided — declaration, bylaws, rules, reserve study, budgets, financials, meeting minutes, insurance summary, estoppel or resale certificate, and any pending special assessment notices. Done well, it tells you exactly what you are buying. Done in a hurry — or as a chat session against a single PDF — it misses the cross-references where real risk lives. This guide covers condominium document sets specifically, where shared building finances, the master insurance policy, and reserves drive the risk; if your property is a detached home in a planned community, the document set and the risks differ — see HOA document review.
Insurance risk
The association's master insurance policy determines what your personal HO-6 policy needs to cover — and what it does not. Deductibles, named-storm provisions, water and flood exclusions, policy form (bare-walls versus all-in), carrier quality, and loss assessment exposure all change the real cost of ownership in ways that never appear in the listing price. Reading the insurance summary alone is not enough; reading the master policy declarations page against the declaration's loss assessment provisions is where the real exposure lives. This page takes the risk-and-exposure view — how a building's insurance position could cost you, and what its insurability signals about the association; for the practical checklist of what coverage you and your lender actually need in place before closing, see Condo insurance requirements.
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