What it means for your study
A community newly mapped into a high or very high zone faces home-hardening and wildland building rules when it replaces roofs, vents, fencing and some landscaping. Those rules raise replacement costs. Inland heat and sun also shorten the life of paint, asphalt and pool equipment. Both belong in the useful lives and costs of an Inland Empire study.
Two things to raise with the firm
- Ask whether the firm has compared the community with the 2025 hazard maps and priced replacements to the rules that now apply.
- Many Inland Empire HOAs are large, single-family communities with slopes, walls and long runs of private street. Paving and slope work are usually the biggest lines.
The statewide rules, briefly
A visual inspection of the accessible major components at least every three years and a board review every year (Civil Code 5550). A funding plan adopted at an open meeting. A reserve summary and the 5570 disclosure form in the annual budget report. And for condominium buildings, the balcony inspection every nine years.
Firms with a base in or near Inland Empire
Riverside County address; a member of several CAI chapters in Southern California.
From the firms' own sites; not a recommendation. More firms on the statewide list.