Who Prepares the Condominium Resale Certificate When You Sell in Montebello

Send it to the association in writing, at the mailing address on its most current management certificate. Montebello's association filed that certificate with Harris County as RP-2026-58595 on 17 February 2026. Texas requires that certificate to give the association's mailing address. Where a management company acts for the association, the certificate also names that company and gives its contact details.

The management certificate is a public record. The county indexes it in the real property records. It is also filed with the Texas Real Estate Commission, which collects those filings to make the data accessible to the public. An amended certificate is due within thirty days after the association has notice of a change. Check the latest filing before you write. Keep a copy of your request and note the date it went out, because the association's ten days count from the day it receives the request.

Order it once a listing date is close, rather than months ahead. The copy handed to a buyer must have been prepared no earlier than three months before delivery. A certificate ordered too soon can go stale before a contract is signed, and then it has to be ordered again.

Two clocks pull against each other. A late order can hold up a contract while the association works through its ten days. An early order goes stale. Weigh that against how long homes here have taken to sell. The longest marketing period published in the last twelve months ran 169 days. A home that sits that long may need a fresh certificate before it closes. A buyer's lender also wants the certificate inside the option period, the short window after a contract when a buyer can still walk away.

The association may charge a reasonable and necessary fee of up to $375 to furnish the certificate. On the Texas Real Estate Commission's condominium resale contract, the certificate paragraph has it prepared at the seller's expense. Read the box your own contract checks, because its terms are whatever the parties wrote into it.

The $375 ceiling covers furnishing the certificate itself. Fees charged when ownership transfers are separate. The certificate has to list each of them with a description, the payee and the amount. The recorded management certificate also states the amount and description of each fee charged to a seller or buyer on a transfer. Ask for both before you work out what the sale will net.

Not necessarily. The Texas Real Estate Commission's notice on its contract form changes calls the updated Condominium Resale Certificate, TREC No. 32-5, a voluntary-use form. The association may use that layout or a different one. Whichever arrives, Section 82.157 of the Texas Property Code sets what a condominium certificate must state.

Paragraphs K and L of the Commission's condominium form were revised to match Section 82.157. On the Commission's layout, three attachments are required: the operating budget, a summary from the association's insurance agent, and the balance sheet. Check each required item against the copy you receive. Ask the association about any blank before a buyer sees it. A missing page in a listing file tends to come back as a buyer's question during the option period.

Yes. The Texas Real Estate Research Center notes that the Seller's Disclosure Notice carries a disclosure of POA maintenance fees and assessments. The resale certificate states your home's own periodic assessment. When the notice, the certificate and the listing all give the same monthly figure, a buyer's questions stay on the home rather than on the paperwork.

Use the certificate's figure as the reference point. The building rate explains how the assessment is set, and the certificate shows what your home pays. Your appraisal account belongs in the same check, because the assessment moves with recorded floor area. Make sure the listing quotes the area the county records. Then the notice, the certificate and the figure a buyer's appraiser works from all describe one home.

Texas gives the seller a substitute. Where the association does not furnish the certificate, or leaves out required information, within the ten days, the owner may give the buyer a sworn affidavit. It states that the owner requested information about the association's financial condition and that the association did not provide the certificate or that information in time.

The Commission's condominium resale contract has a matching box. Where the buyer has received the seller's affidavit, both parties agree to waive the requirement to furnish a certificate. The buyer keeps the statutory termination rights that run alongside the contract's own. An affidavit records the request and its timing, and it carries none of the association's figures. A buyer then weighs the home with fewer stated numbers. Make the written request early enough that the ten days finish well before a contract.