What is our legal standing?

Get an attorney immediately if your only access is being threatened. You mention multiple roads, multiple properties, multiple owners and multiple...

Can our neighbor keep us from maintaining the private road that separates us? Access to our property is threatened.

Get a real estate attorney, preferably one with experience in local government law as well. You need to find out exactly who owns the land and in...

Is a board member permitted to hire/award an association contract to a non-licensed relative without disclosing to the board?

It depends on your covenants and bylaws, and on a few other factors. HOA board members have a fiduciary duty to the membership as well as a duty...

Is there a template or sample to amend a CCR's to restrict the percentage of units that can be rented?

You can just do a general Google search and come up with some samples. I would caution that rental restrictions are not always enforced by the...

Just one quick gloss on the excellent answers above: If the trust's income can in any way be distributed to the wife by the terms of the trust,...

Do HOA BOD's have the right to enter into a contact with a Management Company without a general membership vote? (FLORIDA)..

In almost all cases, yes. Hiring a management firm falls within the BOD's general authority to manage the affairs of the HOA and enter into...

I live in a senior mobile home community. If we have a bingo night do we have to allow the public in

Depends on some factors that aren't mentioned in your question. Where is the bingo night being held? If you don't own the property then you will...

We cannot give legal opinions here. However, if the association did not order the work, and did not benefit from the work, the the individual unit...

Hoa setup

See an attorney to look into this for you. Deed restrictions are different than a declaration of covenants. Most HOAs are not set up as LLCs. ...

Yes, that should be allowed if it's not specifically prohibited by the bylaws or declaration of covenants. They would each have one vote as a...