A Tradition of Neighborhoods

The Greater Kansas City area has a proud tradition of neighborhoods and a strong network of homes associations to protect that legacy. Homes Associations of Kansas City (HAKC) is an alliance of 53 homeowners associations. HAKC includes associations on both sides of State Line.

Some people call homes associations the most representative and responsive form of democracy found in America today. Residents of a neighborhood freely elect neighbors to serve on the Board of Directors of the neighborhood. Numerous other owners or residents serve on committees or help with special tasks as they arise.  Board members and committee members are volunteer leaders who meet regularly to discuss pertinent details about running their neighborhood.  A board meeting at a homes association is comparable to a town council meeting of a municipality.

Professionals at HAKC assist the unpaid volunteers that comprise homes association boards. HAKC is a not-for-profit entity that was created in 1944 to handle the full-time accounting and administrative requirements of member homes associations.

 

KS UCIOBOR Act

The 2010 Kansas legislature adopted a modified version of the Uniform Common Interest Owners Bill of Rights Act (“UCIOBORA” or “the Act”).  The Act becomes effective January 1, 2011, and is the first comprehensive Kansas law governing basic relationships between unit owners in Kansas common interest communities (“CIOs”) and their governing boards and managers.

A CIO is any residential group in which ownership of a unit obligates the owner to “pay for a share of real estate taxes, insurance premiums, maintenance, or improvement of, or services or other expenses related to, common elements, other units or other real estate…”  Basically, this definition covers any single-family, duplex or condominium development tied together by covenants, conditions or restrictions that requires its unit owners to pay dues to support common areas or other common costs related to the development.  Most Kansas CIOs will be either single family developments or condominiums.

For more detailed information on this new law and a recently proposed amendment, click on links below.

Kansas uniform common interest owners bill of rights act (KS UCIOBOR Act)

Click here to download the KS UCIOBOR Act

Checklist for compliance with the act

KS SB 114 (this bill was killed March 2012)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HAKC Staff eMail Addresses

Jamie Marlay
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Pam Garrett
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Jennifer Adams
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Clarence Foxworthy
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Office Location

Homes Associations of Kansas City
Suite 216
4200 Somerset Drive
Prairie Village, KS 66208

If you have any questions please contact us at 913-385-2440.

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