So you are renting your unit…

If you are an owner who leases your unit, we’d like to make the leasing experience successful and positive for everyone by informing you of your responsibilities. This will help preserve your property value specifically and maintain the association’s property value in general.

Your tenants may not be familiar with common-interest community living. Please take a few minutes to explain to them that living in a community association is very different from living in a rental apartment community. Specifically, your tenants, like all residents, are subject to the rules and regulations of the association, and it’s up to you to educate them and see that they comply. The association will assist you in this area, but the responsibility lies with you. We recommend you provide your tenants with written copies of all policies and rules and advise them on the proper use of the association’s facilities. You can obtain copies of these and other useful documents from the manager. Please forward a copy of your lease to your community association manager and if you are utilizing a management company to rent your unit, please forward your unit manager’s contact information to your community manager.

We strongly recommend that you have a written lease agreement with your tenant. As a lessor (landlord) of a home in a community association, the lease you use must require tenants to comply with the association’s governing documents. In the event your tenant fails to comply with these documents, including the bylaws, or its rules and regulations, a representative of the association will contact you in writing to achieve compliance with the rules, and if you have made your tenant’s contact information available, copy them on this notification.

If the tenant does not correct the violation, the association will contact you only and expect you to remedy the violation using the recourse available to you through your lease agreement. Nevada law and your community rules hold the owner of the property accountable for the actions of their tenants, and their tenant’s guests. Your lease is the tool to get your tenants to comply. If your tenants continually violate the rules, you have the power to evict them. The association cannot interfere with the landlord-tenant relationship.

The association asks that you provide the manager with the names and contact information of your tenants. The association can add your tenants to its mailing list, and they will receive the newsletter, invitations to participate on committees, notices of social activities and general association-related information. This information will also be used in case of emergency. Your tenants can be assets to the community and you, just give them the chance to do so!

Follow these simple steps and you, the tenants and the association will all have a positive community association living experience:

1. Provide your tenants with copies of association rules.
2. Educate tenants about the need to follow association rules, and see that they comply.
3. Advise tenants on the proper use of association facilities.
4. Use a written lease agreement.
5. Make sure your lease requires tenants to comply with all association governing documents.
6. Provide the association with contact information for your tenants.

Renters: If you don’t have a copy of the association rules or you’d like more information about the association, please contact a board member or manager.