Homeowners’ Associations (HOAs) are crucial in maintaining community standards and fostering neighborly relations. However, conflicts can arise over property maintenance, rule enforcement, and financial management. For many of these cases, mediation is an effective and powerful tool to consider.
What is mediation?
Mediation is a voluntary and confidential process where a neutral third party, the mediator, facilitates discussions between conflicting parties. Using mediation in an HOA matter, makes it:
- cost-effective
- much faster
- giving the parties control
In many cases, HOAs have a mediation clause in their rules & regulations, which requires disagreeing parties to attend mediation before going forward with a lawsuit. In most cases, this is true.
Mediation offerings
In addition to being cost-effective, faster to reach a resolution and giving the parties much more control, it is completely confidential, which is very important to note because a lot of people do not want their personal issues available for anyone to read, which is the case with public court documents.