Filling open HOA board seats is a vexing and discouraging problem for some associations. However, there may be reasons why neighbors are not interested in serving. Could any of the below characteristics describe your association?Volunteer managers. Do directors spend many hours each week on HOA busi

A prominent philanthropic organization has cut a $303,000 check to hire an outside consultant to help San Diego sidestep repeat failure as it seeks to secure developer interest in remaking the city’s Civic Center real estate.On Tuesday, the Prebys Foundation and the Downtown San Diego Partnership an

Misleading and self-serving statements by the “toxic mold” industry continue to grab attention. This second installment lists further wrong statements followed by the truth.You cannot personally handle mold. Many mold consultants treat mold as if it were asbestos. Asbestos is dangerous and is very d

San Diego County home sales have picked up after a dismal few months. There were 2,132 sales in February, up 27.1 percent from January, said CoreLogic data, which was tied for the lowest-ever sales month in records going back to 1988. February’s numbers mark the most sales in a month going back to A

Nearly 31,000 more people left San Diego County than moved here between July of 2022 and July of 2023, the U.S. Census Bureau recently reported.With the exception of the first year of the pandemic, when the net outflow exceeded 33,000, that volume of people exiting the county hasn’t been seen in nea

A 278-unit apartment complex is coming to Chula Vista’s Millenia neighborhood, a dense area with several other apartment and condo buildings. The project, a joint venture from Ryan Companies and Strata Equity Group, is expected to open its first phase of apartments late next year, they announced thi

All Peoples Church is appealing to a higher power the San Diego City Council’s decision to deny the permits required for an all-new facility with a 900-seat sanctuary on a vacant, 6-acre lot in Del Cerro. Monday, the religious institution filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Southe

San Diego recorded the biggest jump in home prices in the nation for a second month in a row.The San Diego metropolitan area’s annual home price increased 11.2 percent annually in January, according to the S&P Case-Shiller Indices report released Tuesday, up from 8.8 percent the previous month. It m

The city of San Diego is close to inking two separate lease agreements that will allow it to vacate almost entirely the 54-year-old City Operations Buildings at 1222 First Ave. in the municipal core.The contracts will relocate hundreds of staffers in the development services department from the rund

In 2000, a new panic swept the country — “toxic mold.” Twenty-four years of lawsuits and untold billions of dollars later, major mold myths continue to frighten residents and cause exaggerated repairs and unnecessary conflict. On one side of the debate is the mold industry — testers, consultants and

SAN DIEGO — A group of mostly young renters is one step closer to ousting a group of mostly older homeowners as San Diego’s officially designated community voice for Hillcrest, University Heights, Bankers Hill and nearby areas.In a similar power struggle in La Jolla, a group of mostly older homeowne

One year has passed since a head-spinning week of political decision-making all but shuttered the civil litigation and criminal investigation into the former Sempra Energy headquarters at 101 Ash St., now perhaps the most notorious address in San Diego city history.In the span of a single work week,

SAN DIEGO — An apartment complex being built in downtown San Diego is changing course nearly two years into its construction and will now become condos. British Columbia-based developer Bosa Development submitted plans this week to change the 40-story apartment building into a 389-unit condominium t

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has inked a deal to house its growing oncology business in a new, palatial San Diego estate overlooking the ocean.The drugmaker recently signed a 15-year lease for 230,000 square feet of space at the Torrey View campus, currently under construction. The company will take

Q: Is it legal for the board of a community to host a meeting without including representation from the HOA’s management? —A.L., (manager), Laguna HillsA: There is nothing in the law that specifically requires the HOA’s manager to attend any particular board meeting. Normally the management contract

The city of San Diego can go grow its downtown employee headcount and also considerably shrink its civic core office footprint — but it will need to provide ample parking to keep its workers happy, according to a new report prepared by a city real estate consultant.San Diego can go from 2,870 downto

Buzz: Just 258,000 California houses sold last year — the lowest sales count since the Great Recession ended. Meanwhile, Californians gobbled up 1.78 million vehicle sales, the sixth-best year since 2009. Source: My trusty spreadsheet looked at single-family house sales (from the California Associat

San Diego homeowners could see a drop in the cost to sell properties after a historic settlement with a national real estate agent group. The National Association of Realtors has agreed to pay $418 million to settle a series of lawsuits that alleged the organization conspired to keep agent commissio

Against the backdrop of soaring housing costs in the last year, tens of thousands of San Diego County residents decided to take a big leap. They left.New estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that close to 31,000 more people moved out of the county than moved in between July o

The city of San Diego is open to offering the Midway Rising development team substantial financial assistance to make possible the redevelopment of the city’s sports arena real estate in the Midway District.Monday, San Diego City Council members voted unanimously to explore the formation of what’s k