The buyer opens the disclosure. It says the property is clear.
The fine was opened nine days ago.
Two kinds of open item follow a house into a sale, and a buyer is entitled to know about both.
Violations first. Somebody painted a door, parked a boat, left a bin out on the wrong day. Each one carries a category, the unit, the owner, open or closed, a due date, and whatever fine is still pending.
Underneath sits everything the association actually did about it: the actions taken, the fines issued, the hearings held, the letters sent, and the exact rule in the governing documents it was written against.
That last link isn't decoration. "You are in violation" is an accusation. "You are in violation of section 4.2" is a document.
Then architectural requests. An owner wants a fence, a pergola, a roof in a color the committee has feelings about. Every application carries a number, a type, the date it started, the date it's due, the date of the next thing that has to happen, where the vote stands, and whether it ended in approval or denial.
The dangerous state isn't approved. It isn't denied either.
It's still out. And whoever buys the house inherits it.
Open means unfinished. And unfinished follows the deed.Which is exactly why a disclosure can't be printed in advance.
If all this moved slowly, a management company could run a batch of packets once a month and hand them out on request. It doesn't move slowly. A violation opens on a Tuesday. A committee votes on a Thursday.
So we keep none of it. Open violations, open work orders and architectural requests are fetched live from the accounting system at the second the document is made.
Which is the whole reason there's an assembly line behind it, and not a shelf.
Next: the rest of the open items — what's owed, who's chasing it, and what the repair came to.