Condo resale contract and association rules, from the published record
What to Ask the 2727 Kirby Association Before an Offer
Updated November 2026
What should I ask the association at 2727 Kirby before I make an offer?
In November 2026, get the 2727 Kirby association's governing documents before offering, since the Texas State Law Library says most rules, parking included, are left to the association.
Paige Martin, Houston Properties Team, 2727 Kirby
Source: Texas State Law Library, guide to restrictive covenants in property owners' associations, October 2026.
What has to be settled before you offer on a 2727 Kirby unit?
An offer here is a decision about one unit and the terms you will accept for it. Three things should be known before you make it.
They are the true monthly cost, the state of the reserves, and how the sale of the home you own now lines up with the purchase.
The Texas State Law Library's guide says most regulations are left to the association, parking among them, and it points owners to their association's governing documents.
So the answers sit in the declaration, the bylaws, the rules and the association's financial records, not in a listing. A full-service agent puts those papers in front of you before the offer is drafted, so price and terms rest on them.
The offer itself goes on TREC's Residential Condominium Contract (Resale), a form with provisions written for condominium sales alone. TREC says it is not for use where the seller owns fee simple title to the land beneath the unit, and an agent confirms the fit.
However, most regulations are at the discretion of the POA.
How does a full-service agent get the papers early enough to matter?
The resale certificate comes from the association once the selling owner asks in writing. The association then has ten days from receiving that request to furnish it.
A full-service agent asks the listing side to send that request as soon as a unit looks likely. Waiting until a contract is signed leaves the reading squeezed against its deadlines.
The certificate comes with the current operating budget and a balance sheet. The association may charge up to $375 for it, and TREC's condominium contract puts that cost on the seller.
The assessment history and recent board minutes belong to the owners. They reach a buyer through the seller, or through someone the seller names in a signed writing, so an agent raises that request beside the certificate.
The declaration and its amendments come from the Harris County Clerk's index, free to search by file number. The 2009 condominium instrument is file number 20090193056, and an agent can pull the chain before a showing.
What decides the true monthly cost, and whether an assessment is coming?
The certificate states the periodic assessment on the specific home. It also states unpaid common expenses and special assessments due from the seller, and capital spending already approved for the next twelve months.
Two more lines bear on the cost ahead: the reserve balance, with any part set aside for a named project, and the nature of any pending suits.
The building's MLS record lists the fee as covering the concierge, valet parking, an on-site guard and courtesy patrol, a porter, common-area insurance, water, sewer, gas, cable and internet. That field is updated when a listing is written, so the current budget is the better guide.
The facade gives the reserves a history to read against. Curtainwall Design Consulting records the guardrail and podium cladding work as completed in 2013, with all issues rectified in 2014. The assessment history and the minutes show how it was paid for.
A full-service agent reads the reserve line against the budget and raises any gap while the option period still runs. Under TREC's contract, a special assessment due and unpaid at closing is the seller's obligation.
How does the option period keep you from being rushed?
The option period carries an unrestricted right to terminate, for a number of days the parties write into the contract.
A full-service agent sets that number around the dates the documents are expected, so the reading finishes inside it rather than after it.
The building's pace supports taking that time. As of November 2026 the median home took 40 days to go under contract, against 24.0 months of inventory.
Closings ran at 93.2 percent of the final asking price, so the asking price is an opening position. An agent uses that room to hold the offer until the papers are read, rather than racing competition the figures do not show.
Which papers settle parking, pets, guest suites and a unit left empty?
Parking here is set by the recorded declaration and its amendments. An amendment recorded in August 2021 is indexed as the tenth amendment and concerns the reallocation of parking spaces.
The index lists each amendment without saying what it changed. Read the chain in order from the declaration forward, and confirm the spaces tied to the unit you want before the option period ends.
Pets and guest suite bookings are rules-level matters, and the rules reach a buyer from the seller with the declaration and bylaws. Guest suites appear on some portal pages but not in the architects' published account, so ask whether they exist.
For a unit left empty while you travel, ask the association in writing which provision covers it, and who may enter or stay in it. Ask what the concierge, guard and porter on the fee list do for an absent owner.
Then ask for the association's property insurance policy by name, with its exclusions and its deductible. Whether it treats an unoccupied unit differently sits in the policy itself.
How does the sale of your house fit an offer here?
The house and the unit run on separate contracts, each with its own dates. Fixing the order before either is signed decides whether the unit's terms depend on the house.
A full-service agent sets the certificate request, the option period and the house closing against one another before you commit. You then see where each document deadline falls beside the move.
With 3 closings in the trailing twelve months, the unit you want may come up before or after the house sells. Knowing the order in advance keeps an offer on it from waiting on a scramble.
Who can read the 2727 Kirby file with you before an offer?
Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC specializes in condo purchases and purchases in an association-governed building, with 18 closings at 2727 Kirby, most recently April 2026.
Bring the plan and floor you are weighing to the first conversation. Ask which document each answer came from, then read that provision yourself.
Questions & answers
2727 Kirby questions, answered
Can the 2727 Kirby association fine me for something its documents don't mention?
The Texas State Law Library says Texas law does not automatically give a property owners' association the right to impose fines. Its guide is written about property owners' associations, so read it as a pointer rather than a ruling on a condominium. Before an offer, ask the 2727 Kirby association which provision of its declaration or bylaws grants fining power, and read that provision yourself.
Fines matter beyond their amount. Unless the declaration provides otherwise, the association's lien on a unit secures fines along with assessments, interest, late fees and collection costs. The same statute sets one limit: a lien for assessments consisting solely of fines may not be foreclosed. The resale certificate carries a related line. It states whether the board knows of alterations to the unit that breach the governing documents. Read that answer before you sign, because it describes the home you would be taking on.
Who decides whether I can put a sign on my door at 2727 Kirby?
The association decides, through its own documents. The Texas State Law Library's guide puts most regulations at the association's discretion, and it names nonpolitical signage as one example, beside parking and mailbox color. At 2727 Kirby, any rule on signs would sit in the declaration, the bylaws or the rules. The seller furnishes those before a contract is executed.
The guide's example is nonpolitical signage specifically, so read it with that word attached. Ask the association in writing which provision applies to a sign on a unit door, and whether the board has changed it recently. Board decisions are recorded in the minutes, which reach a buyer through the seller.
What do I have to tell the association about whoever looks after my unit while I'm away?
Not later than the 30th day after you acquire an interest in the unit, you give the association the name, address and telephone number of anyone managing it as your agent. You also give the name and telephone number of anyone occupying it other than you. The same report covers your mailing address, your driver's license number, if any, and any lienholder.
The deadline applies again whenever you have notice that any of that information has changed, and the association may ask for it from time to time. A new house sitter, or a change in who holds the keys, is reported on that same footing. Settle before closing where the report goes. The association's mailing address appears on its recorded management certificate, which the county clerk indexes as a Condominium Association Management Certificate.
If the resale certificate arrives while I'm traveling, when does my time to cancel start?
In the TREC condominium contract box for a buyer who has not yet received the certificate, you may terminate within seven days after you receive it, by written notice to the seller. The count runs from your receipt. The delivery address you give therefore decides when those seven days begin, so choose one you will check while away.
The contract's notices paragraph makes a notice effective when it is mailed, hand delivered, faxed or sent electronically to the address the parties write in. Fill that line with care if you will be signing from another city. Check the certificate's age the day it arrives. It must have been prepared no more than three months before you receive it. An older one describes the assessment and the reserves as they stood months earlier, so ask the seller for a fresh one.
How do I tie the sale of my house to an offer at 2727 Kirby?
TREC publishes an Addendum for Sale of Other Property by Buyer for a buyer who cannot purchase the new property unless the existing one is sold and closed. Where money from the house funds the unit, that addendum writes the house closing into the terms of the 2727 Kirby offer. Ask whoever drafts the offer how its terms fit your dates.
The two deals run on different forms. The house goes on TREC's One to Four Family Residential Contract (Resale), and TREC says that form is not for condominium transactions. Selling the house first removes the condition but opens a gap between the two closings. Whichever order you choose, put the house closing date beside the unit's document deadlines on one calendar. The addendum's own deadlines are printed on the current form, so read them with whoever writes the offer.
Who pays the association's fees for the transfer when I buy at 2727 Kirby?
TREC's condominium resale contract splits them at a figure the parties write in. The buyer pays association fees, deposits, reserves and other charges resulting from the transfer up to that figure, and the seller pays any excess. Regular monthly dues are handled separately, prorated through the closing date, so each side carries its own share of the month.
Fill the blank from the certificate rather than from a guess. The certificate must list every fee payable to the association or its agent on a transfer of ownership, with a description, who receives it and the amount. Those fees can also be read before anyone asks. The association's recorded management certificate must state each fee charged to a unit seller or buyer on a transfer, with its amount. A full-service agent sets the figure in the blank from those lists and negotiates it with the seller.
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