Program Description
Common Ownership Community Program
The Office of Common Ownership Communities (OCOC) is committed to providing owners, tenants, residents, boards of directors, and management companies of self-governing residential communities with information, assistance, and impartial dispute resolution programs that improve the quality of life in the community, strengthen the self-governing community structure, and enhance the value of residential property in community associations." The OCOC enforces Chapter Common Ownership Communities of the Montgomery County Code.
The OCOC program ensures fair and equitable relations between the governing bodies of homeowner associations, condominium associations, and cooperatives, and the individuals living within these common ownership communities, and encourages the maintenance and improvement of housing. Activities include mediating and arbitrating disputes; providing information and technical assistance to all parties; and taking legal action as necessary, including referring unresolved complaints to the Montgomery County Commission on Common Ownership Communities.