Quorum Case Files

The Woodlands, 2017. Three private citizens hold final convictions — one served prison — for establishing residency in a hotel to vote in a Texas district election. The identical device, performed roughly a hundred times on behalf of developers, drew a criminal referral from the state's own elections chief that vanished without a record. Texas then barred developer-affiliated voting in 2017 — but wrote the enforcement so that only a candidate in the race can challenge a voter affidavit, leaving the rule enforceable only by the people it was meant to stop.

Quorum Case Files reconstructs documented cases of HOA, condo, and community association governance gone wrong — built from court records and public filings, told as a conversation. From Quorum Press.

The Villages, 2016. The IRS argued that Florida's largest community-development districts were not real governments, because no resident could ever vote them out — and then lost. The districts redeemed the bonds at issue, the IRS closed both examinations in July 2016 with no payment and no change to tax-exempt status, and the boards remain landowner-elected to this day. The case everyone thinks they know never produced a court ruling at all.

Quorum Case Files reconstructs documented cases of HOA, condo, and community association governance gone wrong — built from court records and public filings, told as a conversation. From Quorum Press.

Poinciana, 2023. A mandatory amenity fee at a 55-plus community survived because it was embedded in the recorded governing documents with a lien and a foreclosure right — not because of what it bought. The fee litigation is final: the Florida Supreme Court declined to take it, and the developer's successor told the SEC it paid $64.7 million. Bills to overturn the ruling and to codify it both died, so nothing changed in either direction.

Quorum Case Files reconstructs documented cases of HOA, condo, and community association governance gone wrong — built from court records and public filings, told as a conversation. From Quorum Press.

Adams County, 2024. A developer sold roughly $1.75 million of its own district's bonds to itself at 10.625% — an obligation heading toward $25.8 million in payback. After residents finally won the board, the developer sued them, and the district paid $2.5 million to settle and extinguish the bonds. They bought their freedom retail, with no court ever ruling — and inherited every decision made before they arrived.

Quorum Case Files reconstructs documented cases of HOA, condo, and community association governance gone wrong — built from court records and public filings, told as a conversation. From Quorum Press.

Louisville, 2021. After Colorado's Marshall Fire, owners in a community whose homes never burned received a $1,000 assessment. The master policy had been repriced roughly seven-fold after the carrier cancelled — because insurance, reserves, and the budget were always one system most communities only understand after the fact. Colorado's flagship underinsurance response, it turns out, was aimed at individual homeowner policies, not at HOA master policies or loss assessment.

Quorum Case Files reconstructs documented cases of HOA, condo, and community association governance gone wrong — built from court records and public filings, told as a conversation. From Quorum Press.

Manatee County, 2026. A resident-controlled community development district where, for two-thirds of the properties, the district bill runs larger than the county property-tax bill. A careful walk through what a CDD can spend, what Florida law actually requires, and where genuine accountability questions sit — separating the governance mechanics from the headline framing, and naming what the public record does and does not show.

Quorum Case Files reconstructs documented cases of HOA, condo, and community association governance gone wrong — built from court records and public filings, told as a conversation. From Quorum Press.

Reno, 2021. More than thirteen miles of stacked-rock retaining walls hold up the lots in a master-planned community outside Reno. Two of them collapsed in February 2017 — and when the association sued everyone who built them, the Nevada Supreme Court said it was too late. The right to sue had expired in December 2012, one month before homeowners took control of their own board. The claim died while the developer still ran it, and the association recovered nothing from any defendant while the walls still had to be fixed.

Quorum Case Files reconstructs documented cases of HOA, condo, and community association governance gone wrong — built from court records and public filings, told as a conversation. From Quorum Press.

Castle Rock, 1989–2025. One Castle Rock neighborhood owes $434 million in metropolitan-district bond debt: $70 million of principal, unreduced since 1989, and $364 million of accrued interest — taxed at 35 mills where the town itself levies less than one. A 2007 court order left the master district holding a single developer-owned parcel, so the homeowners who pay its taxes could not qualify as electors, and residents who applied for its board were turned away. In May 2025 they finally won five of the seven district boards. No one broke the law at any step — which is exactly the problem Series 2 exists to examine.

Quorum Case Files reconstructs documented cases of HOA, condo, and community association governance gone wrong — built from court records and public filings, told as a conversation. From Quorum Press.

San Francisco, 2016. A $350 million luxury high-rise at 301 Mission Street had spent its entire lifetime budget of settlement before the first resident got the keys — then kept sinking and began to tilt. The Millennium Tower Association didn't design the foundation or build it; it inherited the defect, and with it the hardest question a board ever faces: what do you do about a disaster you didn't cause and couldn't have prevented? Measure it, disclose it, and fight for recovery — while owners carry years of assessments before any settlement arrives.

Quorum Case Files reconstructs documented cases of HOA, condo, and community association governance gone wrong — built from court records and public filings, told as a conversation. From Quorum Press.

Berkeley, 2015. A fifth-floor balcony sheared off a modern building during a birthday party, killing six. The rot was hidden behind the waterproofing — but the warnings weren't: residents had reported mushrooms growing out of the deck. How California answered with SB 721 and SB 326, the law that fused balcony inspection to the HOA reserve study.

Quorum Case Files reconstructs documented cases of HOA, condo, and community association governance gone wrong — built from court records and public filings, told as a conversation. From Quorum Press.