Condo reserve funding

Condo reserve funding rules, state by state

How condo reserve funding rules compare across United States states — each explainer translates the governing statute into plain language with the source cited. Not legal advice.

8 states covered
Delaware

Delaware condo reserve funding rules, in plain language

How Delaware's Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act and legacy Unit Property Act handle condominium reserves — with minimum-percentage budget allocations, a reserve-study framework, and phase-in timelines for older communities — and what that means for a condo board, owner, or buyer.

25 Del. C. ch. 81 — Delaware Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act (§§ 81-103, 81-315, 81-324); 25 Del. C. ch. 22 — Unit Property Act (§§ 2244–2246)
District of Columbia

District of Columbia condominium reserve funding rules, in plain language

How the D.C. Condominium Act actually handles reserves — through association budget and assessment authority plus a resale-disclosure requirement — and what it means that there is no statutory reserve-study cycle for a board, owner, or buyer.

D.C. Code § 42-1903.12 — D.C. Condominium Act, association powers and budgets (with resale disclosure at § 42-1904.11)
Florida

Florida condominium reserve funding rules, in plain language

How Florida's Chapter 718 condominium statute actually handles reserves — through a default budget framework, a member-vote waiver mechanism for some reserves, and the post-Surfside Structural Integrity Reserve Study regime that makes certain reserves non-waivable — and what all of that means for a board, owner, or buyer.

Fla. Stat. § 718.112(2)(f) and (g) — condominium annual budgets, reserve accounts, waiver limits, and Structural Integrity Reserve Study requirements, with milestone-inspection cross-reference to Fla. Stat. § 553.899
Maryland

Maryland condominium reserve funding rules, in plain language

How Maryland's Condominium Act actually handles reserves — through a mandatory reserve study, funding at the study-recommended level with a five-year ramp-up, county-by-county phase-in dates, and a narrow board-level hardship exception — and what that means for a board, owner, or buyer.

Md. Code, Real Property § 11-109.2 (annual budget and reserve funding) and § 11-109.4 (reserve study definitions, cycle, preparer qualifications, funding plan) — Maryland Condominium Act
New Jersey

New Jersey condominium reserve funding rules, in plain language

How New Jersey's Condominium Act actually handles reserves — through mandatory fund-handling and accounting rules for reserve funds once identified, without itself imposing a reserve-study cadence or funding formula — and what that means for a board, owner, or buyer alongside the separate PREDFDA reserve-study overlay.

N.J.S.A. 46:8B-15(e) — New Jersey Condominium Act, reserve fund handling and accounting
North Carolina

North Carolina condominium reserve funding rules, in plain language

How North Carolina's Condominium Act actually handles reserves — through board budget authority, offering-statement disclosure that the reserve amount may be zero, and a majority-of-all-owners budget rejection mechanism, without a statutory reserve-study or funding mandate — and what that means for a board, owner, or buyer.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47C-3-103 (budget ratification), § 47C-3-102 (budget powers for reserves), § 47C-4-103(a)(5) (public offering statement budget disclosure), and § 47C-1-102 (applicability) — North Carolina Condominium Act
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania condominium reserve funding rules, in plain language

How Pennsylvania's Uniform Condominium Act actually handles reserves — through mandatory disclosure of the reserve amount or its absence in offering statements and resale certificates, with statutory protection against pledging reserve funds, but no reserve-study mandate or minimum funding rule — and what that disclosure-driven posture means for a board, owner, or buyer.

68 Pa.C.S. § 3402(a)(6) (public offering statement reserve disclosure), § 3407(a)(5) (resale certificate reserve disclosure), and § 3302(a)(2) and (17) (association budget authority and reserve fund protection) — Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act
Virginia

Virginia condominium reserve funding rules, in plain language

How Virginia's Condominium Act actually handles reserves — through a mandatory five-year reserve study that condo instruments can vary — and what that instrument-variation clause means for a board, owner, or buyer reading a specific declaration.

Va. Code § 55.1-1965 — Virginia Condominium Act, annual budget and reserves for capital components

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