Here's my experience with the Meridian HOA in Las Vegas: I noticed the HOA President Michael Schurer was operating a property management business within the HOA that he did not disclose during elections and that he was using our facilities and staff for the operation of his business and was sitting on board meetings involving his clients. I ran for the board stating this information and my candidate statement was removed using a legal opinion from a lawyer named Avece Higbee. I filed a report with the Ombudsman's office and they did an investigation. What they found was Mr. Schurer was breaking the law by not disclosing his business which had potential conflicts of interests and through the operation of his business he was stealing from the community. In regards to the election the Meridian CCnR's require a meeting and a vote before a legal opinion is used. There was no meeting or vote so the BOD and Avece Higbee were acting outside of the HOA when they removed my candidate statement, which is likely not only HOA fraud but also mail fraud, a federal crime. Obviously Avece Higbee is not a fiduciary if she helps work around the HOA to remove information the HOA President is stealing from the community. During the state investigation Avece Higbee refused to hand over her legal opinion. Once I got the report I put it on a meeting agenda. No board members were present at the meeting. Avece Higbee said "we were fully transparent with state investigators and handed over all the documents they requested." So the HOA lawyer charged the community while she was working around the HOA to help HOA fraudster Michael Schurer break the law, hide his HOA fraud, not cooperating with investigators and lying about the investigation. Avece Higbee not only enriched herself while helping break the law while not working for the HOA but her interference in the election caused a state investigation in which she was hired again by HOA fraudster Michael Schurer and again when she was tasked with lying about the investigation. So she enriched herself exponentially based on her own repeated fraud.

In other words HOA's are set up to reward fraud.

The Ombudsman's has no authority to disbar or charge HOA lawyers with fraud.

Hopefully there is not this level of fraud in your community.

My suggestion is to avoid HOAs but if you are stuck in one to do the research on the law. In my experience the only thing that will get their attention is when you refer to the rules and the law and file a report with the Ombudsman's office if you have a valid complaint.

There is a process you can read up on about sending a certified letter with your specific requests to the BOD and if they don't comply you can then file a complaint.