OR Fed. Ct. Says Efforts to Collect HOA Assessments Are Subject to Fed Debt Collection Practices Act

Oregon US District Court decision (May 21, 2015).

Commencing in 2009, a homeowners association (“Association”) sought to collect delinquent HOA assessments and associated fees and costs which approximated $1,000.00 from a homeowner. After a long history of repeated defaults, collection efforts, payment plans, and settlement negotiations that involved legal counsel for both the Association and the homeowner, the homeowner filed an action against the Association’s attorneys seeking damages in excess of $1,000,000.00 based on unfair debt-collection practices. In the action, the homeowner alleged that the attorneys had violated several […]