Is it possible to dissolve a Homeowner Association and form a town or city within a county in Northern CA?
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Yes. One must find out what is required to a town or city and full fill the code. You have to have a fire dept., a police dept., a city administration, and schools. Or at least be able to pay to farm them out to another local municipality and pay for them. Your taxes should rise exponentially. You must also file a declaration of municipality and guide lines of how it is going to be run. Then you hope you don't fall under somebody Else's municipality who doesn't want to let you go.
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You can if the title to the land is separate from the house.  But I suspect the title is for the combined land and house, so you can't.  Why would you want to do this anyway?
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There is no statewide law concerning that.  That would be a local ordinance and you would have to check with the city or county that has jurisdiction over that area.
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Depends totally on local ordinances (zoning) [I'm a former funeral director]
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You can.\nYou would most likely have to hire someone to care for the properties for you.\nThere are companies that do only that for people that either live outside the state or country.
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Like anyother state you could end up losing your house unless CA allows you to declare bankruptcy and keep it. (Some states do allow this)
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Get a property map from the county first of all.  Approach whomever is using the easement with proof of the boundaries and request that they cease activity on the easement.\n\nIf they refuse, your next course of action would have to be through the legal system, whether it be contacting police or county officials (depending on "who" is using it and for what), or through the court system.
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Generally it is completely illegal to do what this landlord did in California.  You may be able to collect up to three times your actual damages or what it cost you to move.  Plus in many areas of the Bay Area it is actually a crime and s/he could go to jail\n\nTry:\nLegal Aid Society of San Mateo County \nwww.legalaidsmc.org\n521 E. 5th Ave, San Mateo, CA 94402\n800-381-8898\n\nProvides high quality civil legal services to low-income children, families and seniors. Serving over 2300 people last year, and helping another 4000 people find the right resource, Legal Aid's mission is to be a source of legal advice, representation and education in our community, so that everyone will have access to justice. Legal Aid provides legal assistance on health care issues, domestic violence, family law, government benefits, disability issues, and small business development. Housing-related programs include HomeSavers, which helps tenants who are having problems with their landlords, and HomeBuilders, which works to promote the development of more affordable housing. \n\nor\n\nBay Area Legal Aid, San Mateo County Regional Office\nwww.baylegal.org\n2287 So. El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94403\n650-358-0745           800-551-5554 \n\nProvides free legal assistance with eviction defense, landlord-tenant disputes, housing discrimination, and creation and preservation of affordable housing. Services are available to very low-income clients in San Mateo County and throughout the Bay Area.\n\nYou can also try:\n\nSmall Claims Mediation Program\nwww.sanmateocourt.org/director.php?filename=./adr/smallclaims/index.html\n650-573-3907\n\nThis program provides on-site mediation services. If a case settles in mediation, the court will not proceed with the small claims hearing, but rather will note in the court file that the parties reached a mediated settlement.\n\nIf you need or prefer bilingual (spanish) services try:\nLa Raza Centro Legal\nwww.lrcl.org\n866-4-LARAZA (toll free)\n\nProvides bilingual legal services and lawyer referral at sites throughout the county.\n\nIf you or someone in your family also has a disability you may be able to get help from the california department of fair employment and housing: www.dfeh.ca.gov.\n\nIf you want to try to take care of this on your own the california Department of Consumer Affairs has a resource guide at:www.dca.ca.gov/legal/landlordbook\n\nAlso if you cannot get one of these places to help you might want to look into the programs offered by the law schools in your area, such as Stanford, Hastings, and Berkeley
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Call your county court house or any real estate investors association in your state. You could also call a real estate attorney and ask them.\n\nYou might find the information you need at the site I included under Sources.
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A lot of new home subdivisions are being built as common interest developments.  If you want to buy a property in one of these developments you must join the association.  In every association I have ever herd of there is always some type of fee.  Sometimes the fees are small, just some type of management fee.  Other times the association pays for gardening, maintenance, roads etcetera.  I know in some areas it can be hard to find properties that don’t belong to some type of association.  They do however exist; you just have to find them.  Oh, I almost forgot, if you decide to buy in an association community, read the CC&R’s VERY carefully.  They often have strict requirements about what you can and can not do to, on or in your own property.  \nBest of luck to you.
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Check with the courthouse and ask if there is a site that you can do that on, good luck.
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i am in AZ and local law and custom will prevail.  what you have is adverse possession.  these things are controlled by time frames such as to close the Ingres/egress off it needs to be open and notorious and done like for 24 hours every 7 years.  there should be a time frame in the 7 to 10 year range that they would have had to close off physical access.  physical access is different then legal access.  most areas require physical access to all lots.  your best bet is to contact first a local real estate broker who specializes in land not in houses, it will be under commercial real estate in the phone book. he can answer most questions. but you will be in court to get it done, and the real estate guy will know the right lawyer.  this is a highly technical area of law make sure you get someone who does this for a living, a divorce lawyer will not be much good
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No, but you may need to file a qualification to do business in that jurisdiction.  For instance, in California, you can operate a business that is incorporated elsewhere (Delaware, for instance) but you have to file a qualification to do business with California.
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I live in sonoma county (north of SF) and houses arn't selling as fast as i saw them go a few years ago. So I would say go for it.
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What would be important to know is if you live in a community property state. If you do, you can't do it on your own.
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Contact your county's land assessor.
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google it. i really would not want to live anywhere near that county though (i used to live there). good luck.