§ 5690 Lien Notice Compliance Costs

• •If a group (like a homeowners association) doesn't follow the rules for telling someone about a problem, they have to start the whole process over again.
• •The group has to pay for starting over, not the person who owns the home or property.
• •This rule makes sure people get the right warnings before the group can take big steps, like putting a lien on their home.

Your homeowners association (HOA) wants to charge you for not fixing your fence. They send you one letter but forget to send the second one like the rules say. Then they try to put a lien on your house.

The HOA messed up because they didn’t follow the steps. Now they have to start over and send all the letters again. They also have to pay for the cost of sending the new letters, not you.