A clear, step-by-step roadmap for Californians dealing with abusive HOAs
ALISO VIEJO, CA, November 25, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- California has over 55,000 HOAs, and far too many of them can only be described as HOAs from HELL. Unfortunately, homeowners living in those HOAs have been forced to live with systemic failures to maintain common areas, selective enforcement, fiscal mismanagement, sky-high special assessments, abusive discipline, and ego-driven board members. Until now, that is. Because now, there is a new book coming out that will send bad directors from terrible HOAs running for the hills.
HOA HELL | California Homeowners' Definitive Guide to Beating Bad HOAs, written by attorney Michael B. Kushner, gives homeowners the first plain English, real world, battle-tested strategy for dealing with their abusive HOAs. Kushner has spent nearly 30 years representing homeowners in HOA disputes and is widely recognized as California's leading homeowner-side HOA attorney. He is the attorney who built many of the core systems and strategies that the three largest homeowner-side HOA law firms in the state still rely on today.
In HOA HELL, Kushner explains the specific patterns he has seen for decades. He breaks down how bad HOA boards routinely ignore vital maintenance and repairs, engage in selective enforcement, grossly mishandle HOA finances, abuse the disciplinary process, block access to HOA records, and hide behind complex procedures that most homeowners simply do not understand. HOA HELL shows homeowners, in simple steps, how to use their legal rights to force compliance, stop abuse, and regain control of their associations.
HOA HELL teaches California homeowners:
• How bad HOAs actually operate behind the scenes and why so many get away with violating the law.
• How to document wrongs like selective enforcement, retaliation, and fiscal mismanagement, and other abuses.
• How to demand records and disclosures that expose financial problems and violations.
• How to create pressure on boards to follow the law.
• How to organize neighbors, run recalls, and obtain transparency.
• How to escalate disputes so that boards cannot ignore them.
None of the tools in HOA HELL are hypothetical. They are all practical and they all work.
"Homeowners are far from powerless. They just have never been given a clear explanation of what the law actually allows them to do or how to do it," Kushner said. "HOA HELL gives homeowners the tools to act and a way to force their HOAs to listen."
Availability
HOA HELL is currently available for preorder on amazon.com (Kindle only, until the book's release on 12/15/25) and barnesandnoble.com (hardcover/paperback). On December 15, 2025, the book becomes available for delivery on both Amazon and at Barnes & Noble.
About the Author
Michael Kushner is California's #1 leading authority on homeowner-side HOA law. For nearly 30 years, he and his team of attorneys have represented thousands of homeowners in disputes with their HOAs. Mr. Kushner pioneered the pre-litigation systems and strategies now used by the state's largest homeowner-side law firms (the founders of whom all used to work for him). He is the founder of MBK Chapman and host of the very popular podcast, HOA HELL, where he provides practical guidance to homeowners facing HOA problems.
Media Contact
MBK CHAPMAN PC
www.mbkchapman.com
hoahellbook@mbkchapman.com
(949) 767-3910
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