About AZ HOA Watch

About Jeremy R. Whittaker

Jeremy R. Whittaker is a former Mesa City Councilmember and quantitative-finance professional. Jeremy built the analysis engine behind AZ HOA Watch, founded Arizona Civic Access Institute, which now runs the site, and serves as the Institute’s director.

Jeremy also created HOABallot, an online voting platform for HOA elections operated by Hall of Records LLC. HOABallot is a separate business and is not part of the Institute.

Disclosure: Jeremy has been a party to HOA disputes indexed on this site, including matters involving the Val Vista Lakes Community Association. Those matters are indexed and summarized under the same rules as every other matter.

Who runs AZ HOA Watch

AZ HOA Watch is a project of Arizona Civic Access Institute, Inc., an Arizona nonprofit corporation for nonpartisan civic education and research. The Institute preserves, indexes, analyzes, and publishes judicial, administrative, governmental, and community-governance records so Arizonans can find, read, and understand them. Its other projects are AZ Court Watch, covering public Arizona courtroom media, calendars, and case records, and NoFelons.org, explaining community-association governance and amendment procedures.

• Nonpartisan. The Institute does not support or oppose candidates or political parties.
• Record first. Each case page identifies or links its source, and the official record controls.
• Independent. It is not affiliated with the Arizona Department of Real Estate, the Office of Administrative Hearings, any court, or any association, management company, law firm, or attorney named on the site.
• Correctable. Send corrections to [email protected].

The Institute is an Arizona nonprofit corporation and has not yet received federal 501(c)(3) recognition. Arizona Civic Access Institute, Inc., 4500 S. Lakeshore Drive, Suite 490, Tempe, AZ 85282. See the Legal Notice & Terms.

Our Mission

This project exists to make Arizona HOA adjudications easier to find, understand, and compare. HOA disputes often involve the same recurring fact patterns—records access, elections, notice requirements, governing-document enforcement, assessments, and vendor relationships—but the underlying decisions and filings can be difficult for owners and volunteer board members to locate and interpret. We turn those public administrative records into a structured, searchable dataset so the public can evaluate outcomes, see which arguments succeed, and understand how Arizona decision-makers apply statutes and community documents in real cases.

Our Data and Process

The HOA administrative adjudications presented here originate from publicly available Arizona Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) portals, including the OAH Case Portal and the OAH Decision Search Portal. This site presents them alongside related public records—such as Arizona superior court, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court matters, federal court records, and public information on associations, attorneys, law firms, and judges—and each case page identifies and links its originating source. These primary-source documents are ingested into a unified, searchable dataset using , the analytical engine Jeremy R. Whittaker originally built for quantitative financial analysis.

The engine applies structured extraction and normalization workflows to convert raw OAH records into a consistent analytical corpus. Documents are semantically segmented, embedded with advanced encoding techniques, and indexed for high-recall similarity search so that user queries retrieve the most relevant passages across a large and growing body of administrative records. At runtime, the system assembles a grounded context bundle directly from the underlying OAH materials and uses that context to generate summaries and cross-case comparisons that remain traceable to the source documents. Summaries are produced with automated tools, including AI, and can contain errors; the official record controls.

The result is a record-first research platform designed to improve clarity, reduce ambiguity, and enable pattern discovery across cases—without replacing, altering, or obscuring the official public record.

Empowering Homeowners (and Boards)

The goal is straightforward: give homeowners, board members, and community stakeholders faster access to what the public record already shows. You can review how ALJs have handled similar disputes, identify the statutes and governing-document provisions that mattered, and understand the practical contours of what has been ordered in comparable cases. This is meant to reduce guesswork, cut through misinformation, and help people engage with HOA governance using primary sources and reproducible references.

What You Can Expect Here

Legal Precedents and Resources

This site is organized around the recurring legal and procedural topics that appear across Arizona HOA matters—records inspection, open meetings and notice, elections, conflicts of interest, enforcement of CC&Rs/bylaws, and other common dispute categories. It highlights relevant statutes and ruling patterns, and it maps those themes across judges, law firms, attorneys, associations, and outcomes.

“The goal is simple: give homeowners, board members, and community stakeholders faster access to what the public record already shows.”

Treat this platform as a research and transparency tool: it helps you find and organize sources, but it does not replace reading the underlying documents or getting qualified legal advice when needed.