About this episode

The episode discusses a legal case involving a homeowner's struggle with their HOA over raising a fence to protect against coyotes.

While many questions we receive about HOAs have clean answers, the ones that end up in court rarely do. In this episode, HOA attorney Michael Kushner, California’s most experienced homeowner-side HOA attorney, and co-host Sam Khil, take opposite sides of a real jaw-dropping case out of the Nellie Gail HOA in Orange County. Coyotes cleared a family’s fence again and again, at all hours of the day and night, killing their goats one by one. When attempts to stop the attacks failed, the homeowner...

People in this episode

Host: Michael Kushner

Guest: Sam Khil

Topics covered

• HOA regulations
• property rights
• wildlife issues
• legal disputes
• homeowner associations

Keywords

• HOA
• California
• fence
• coyotes
• legal case
• homeowner
• Nellie Gail

Mentioned in this episode

Places: California, Nellie Gail HOA, Orange County

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