Lonesome Dove Estates Residential

What Lonesome Dove Estates Residential's governing documents say

Lonesome Dove Estates is a residential, single-family homeowner association (HOA) in Southlake, Texas. This declaration establishes the HOA to maintain common areas (streets, landscaping, lighting, etc.) and sets out membership, voting, assessment, and architectural control rules for lot owners.

• Who the rules bind: Every owner of a residential lot automatically becomes a member of the association. Membership runs with the land and cannot be separated from lot ownership.
• Voting rights: There are two classes: Class A (all owners except Declarant) get one vote per lot. Class B (Declarant) gets six votes per lot owned, but Class B membership ends when Declarant sells all lots or ten years after recording, whichever comes first. Until then, no association action can occur without Declarant's written consent.
• Common property & easements: Owners, tenants, and residents have a non-exclusive easement to use common properties (streets, landscaping, sprinklers, walls, etc.). The association may regulate use, suspend rights for unpaid assessments or rule violations (max 60 days), and with majority vote can dedicate common property to a public agency.
• Assessments & fees: Annual assessments are levied per lot to fund common area maintenance, insurance, and administration. Special assessments for capital improvements require a 66 2/3% vote of members present at a meeting. The maximum annual assessment can increase automatically by CPI or by a 2/3 member vote. Assessments are a personal obligation and a lien on the lot if unpaid.
• Architectural control: An Architectural Control Committee (described in Article X, not fully excerpted here) has authority over exterior modifications. No specific rules are given in the provided text, but the committee's existence is established.
• Enforcement & amendments: The association or any owner can enforce covenants through legal action. Declarant may amend the declaration with 51% owner approval during the control period. After, amendments require 51% of all votes. The declaration runs with the land for 25 years, auto-renewing every 10 years unless 51% of owners agree to change it.

Plain-language summary generated from the governing documents on file for this community. It may be incomplete and is not legal advice — read the full documents below or consult the official recorded versions.