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Texas Condo Water Damage: Who Pays

Who pays?
Shared

Texas's Uniform Condominium Act puts common-element insurance and repair funding with the unit owners' association: the board collects assessments for common expenses, and the association must insure the insurable common elements for at least 80 percent of their replacement cost or actual cash value (Tex. Prop. Code 82.102, 82.111).

High confidence · Verified Oct 28, 2026 · 1 source

Exception
  • The declaration may otherwise provide for association powers and insurance requirements
What to do next

What to do next

  1. Photograph the problem and write down the date

    Take the photos before any work starts.

  2. If the repair is yours, get more than one written quote

    Ask each contractor to confirm where your part ends and the public part begins.

Work through the full repair checklist

Responsibility Boundary

Default rule and exceptions

Unless the declaration provides otherwise, the association, acting through its board, adopts budgets and collects assessments for common expenses from unit owners (Tex. Prop. Code 82.102). The association must maintain, to the extent reasonably available, property insurance on the insurable common elements, including fire and extended coverage, for at least 80 percent of the replacement cost or actual cash value of the insured property (82.111).

PartyWhat they are responsible for
AssociationAdopts budgets, collects assessments for common expenses, and insures the insurable common elements for at least 80 percent of replacement cost or actual cash value, to the extent reasonably available.
Unit ownerPays assessments funding common-element repair and insurance; the declaration governs finer unit-vs-common allocation.
ExceptionsThe declaration may otherwise provide for association powers and insurance requirements

What the source says

Last verified against the primary source on Oct 28, 2026.

Unless otherwise provided by the declaration, the association, acting through its board, may... adopt and amend budgets for revenues, expenditures, and reserves, and collect assessments for common expenses from unit owners...
Texas Property Code Ch. 82, Sec. 82.102 (Powers of Unit Owners' Association), checked Oct 28, 2026
Beginning not later than the time of the first conveyance of a unit to a person other than a declarant, the association shall maintain, to the extent reasonably available: (1) property insurance on the insurable common elements insuring against all risks of direct physical loss commonly insured against...
Texas Property Code Ch. 82, Sec. 82.111 (Insurance), checked Oct 28, 2026
property insurance on the insurable common elements insuring against all risks of direct physical loss commonly insured against, including fire and extended coverage, in a total amount of at least 80 percent of the replacement cost or actual cash value of the insured property as of the effective date and at each renewal date of the policy
Tex. Prop. Code ch. 82, checked Oct 28, 2026

Common questions

Who pays for condo: water damage / component repair in Statewide, TX?

Responsibility is shared. Adopts budgets, collects assessments for common expenses, and insures the insurable common elements for at least 80 percent of replacement cost or actual cash value, to the extent reasonably available.

Are there exceptions in Statewide, TX?

The declaration may otherwise provide for association powers and insurance requirements

What is this based on for Statewide, TX?

This verdict is sourced to Texas Property Code Ch. 82, Sec. 82.102 (Powers of Unit Owners' Association) and 3 sources in total, each independently re-checked before publication.

Sources

  1. Texas Property Code Ch. 82, Sec. 82.102 (Powers of Unit Owners' Association)statute · verified-primary · accessed 2026-10-28
  2. Texas Property Code Ch. 82, Sec. 82.111 (Insurance)statute · verified-primary · accessed 2026-10-28
  3. Tex. Prop. Code ch. 82statute · verified-primary · accessed 2026-10-28
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