United States / North Carolina
North Carolina reserves, budgets, and disclosure rules.
Everything we publish for North Carolina: the state's reserve and disclosure rules in plain language, budget guides for boards, owners, and buyers, and snapshots of specific communities where we have something concrete to say.
Guides
How to read a budget, reserve study, and disclosure
How to review an HOA budget before you buy
A buyer-first guide to the budget lines, reserve clues, and document requests that matter before you commit to any HOA.
GuideWhat HOA board members should collect before running reserve scenarios
A board-first checklist for the minimum financial inputs required before an HOA scenario tool can tell the truth.
Reserve laws
North Carolina's reserve and disclosure rules in plain language
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.
LawNorth Carolina HOA reserve funding rules, in plain language
How North Carolina's Planned Community Act actually handles reserves — through board budget authority plus a majority-of-all-owners budget rejection mechanism, without a statutory reserve-study or funding mandate, plus a significant applicability cutoff for communities created before January 1, 1999 — and what that means for a board, owner, or buyer.
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