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By: Bob L. Olson

In Nevada’s master-planned communities it is common for one home to be in multiple homeowners’ associations.  In such cases there is generally a master association for the master-planned community and then sub-associations for specific developments within the master-planned community.  The liens of the master association and the sub-association have equal priority unless their declarations provide otherwise. See NRS 116.3116(8) (formerly NRS 116.3116(4)).  Earlier this year in Southern Highlands Community Association v. San Florentine Avenue Trust, 132 Nev. Adv. Op. 3 (Jan. 14, 2016), the Nevada Supreme Court (the “Court”) had the opportunity to discuss the effect of the foreclosure by one association on the other association’s lien of equal priority.… Read More »