Texas condo resale forms from TREC and the association
The Resale Forms a Montebello Condo Buyer Reads Before Signing
Updated October 2026
Which Texas forms does a buyer read before signing for a Montebello condo?
In October 2026, a Montebello buyer reads the Texas Real Estate Commission's Residential Condominium Contract (Resale) and the Condominium Resale Certificate the condominium association prepares and signs.
Paige Martin, Houston Properties Team, Montebello
Source: Texas Real Estate Commission, Residential Condominium Contract (Resale) form page, July 2026.
Which two Texas forms does a Montebello condo buyer read?
Two forms published by the Texas Real Estate Commission carry a Montebello purchase. The first is the Residential Condominium Contract (Resale), the agreement buyer and seller sign.
The Commission says this contract form is used for the resale of a condominium unit. It adds that the form contains unique provisions relating solely to condominium transactions.
The Commission draws one scope line around the contract. It excludes a sale where the seller owns fee simple title to the land beneath the unit. Ask the title company or an attorney how a given unit's title reads before anyone drafts the contract.
The second form is the Condominium Resale Certificate. The Commission describes it as used in connection with the sale of a condominium and prepared and signed by the condominium association. For a home at Montebello, the building's own association completes it.
It is not for use where the seller owns fee simple title to the land beneath the unit.
What does the Montebello association hand over beside the certificate?
Montebello is a 98-unit condominium tower at 1100 Uptown Park Boulevard. Its association holds the papers a buyer reads next to the certificate, starting with the declaration, the bylaws and any association rules.
Three more documents answer questions neither form settles: the master policy declarations page with its deductible, the assessment history, and the minutes of recent board meetings. The association's current operating budget belongs in the same stack.
Ask for them in writing through the selling owner's agent, and keep a dated copy of the request. Ask how long the association usually takes, because a slow reply eats into the weeks between contract and closing.
How much reading time does Montebello's pace leave a buyer?
As of October 2026, the median Montebello home took 38 days to reach an executed contract, from 4 closings in the trailing twelve months. That pace gives a buyer room to read both forms before signing.
The days-on-market count stops at the signed contract. The resale certificate and the review a lender runs on the association both come after it, before funding.
Request the association's papers early in that stretch. A certificate read while the contract still allows a decision is worth more than one read the week of closing.
Who reads the forms with a Montebello buyer?
Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC has 18 closings at Montebello, most recently June 2026, in a 98-unit building.
Paige specializes in condo purchases and purchases in an association-governed building.
Send the unit number and ask for the contract and the certificate to be read side by side before an offer goes in.
Questions & answers
Montebello questions, answered
Do the agents on a Montebello sale have to use the state's condominium contract?
The Texas Real Estate Commission's list of promulgated forms states that real estate license holders are required to use them. Its condominium resale contract is the form written for reselling a unit. The Commission describes it as carrying provisions for condominium transactions alone. So the agents on both sides of a Montebello sale start from the same state document.
The fee simple exclusion still applies, so the title question comes first. Ask your agent which version of the contract they will draft on. Read every blank filled in on it before you sign. Questions about what a provision means legally belong with your own attorney.
What can go wrong if the forms on a Montebello sale are filled in badly?
The Texas Real Estate Commission warns that mistakes in the use of a form may result in financial loss or a contract which is unenforceable. That warning sits on its list of promulgated contract forms and addenda. Its advice to anyone obtaining the forms is to contact a real estate license holder or an attorney for assistance.
At Montebello, the condominium contract and the association's certificate land in the same file. A mismatch between them is easier to fix early than at closing. Ask your agent which contract version is in use. Ask the association which certificate form it completed, and on what date.
Is a Montebello resale certificate the same form an owners association uses?
No. The Texas Real Estate Commission keeps a separate owners association resale certificate, form 37-5, which complies with Chapter 207 of the Texas Property Code. That form covers property subject to mandatory membership in a property owners' association. A Montebello sale uses the Condominium Resale Certificate, form 32-5, which the condominium association completes.
Form 37-5 reports assessments, judgments, any right of first refusal on resale and other information about the association. If your shortlist mixes a Montebello unit with a home in an owners association, ask for each certificate by its own form number. Keep the two sets of papers apart, so the rules for one are not read into the other.
Should I compare the seller's disclosure notice with the Montebello resale certificate?
Yes. The Texas Real Estate Research Center notes that the Seller's Disclosure Notice, form 55-0, also carries a disclosure of property owners' association maintenance fees and assessments. That disclosure is the seller's own statement. The resale certificate comes from the association, so a Montebello buyer can hold the two side by side.
Where the two disagree on a fee or an assessment, send the question to the association in writing. Ask for a dated answer, and file it with the certificate. Whether a particular sale calls for the notice at all is a question for the seller's side and its lawyer.
How should I read the Montebello fee once the association's papers arrive?
Convert the fee to dollars per square foot per month, then compare it against buildings offering the same service level. A lower fee in a building with fewer staff and fewer amenities is a different product. A lower fee in a comparable building may signal underfunded reserves, which arrives later as a special assessment.
Four questions do most of the work. Ask what capital projects have been completed and when, and what is scheduled. Then ask what the reserve balance is, and whether any special assessment has been levied or discussed. We publish a verified holding cost of about $1.03 per square foot per month, derived from a named unit. Multiply it by the square footage and by twelve, and set the total against what you spend running your current home today.
Which version of the Texas condo resale certificate is current?
TREC No. 32-5. The Texas Real Estate Commission amended its Condominium Resale Certificate so Paragraphs K and L conform with section 82.157 of the Texas Property Code. The Broker-Lawyer Committee recommended the changes, and the Commission adopted them at its November 4 meeting. They took effect January 3, 2025. The updated certificate is a voluntary-use form.
Ask which form number the Montebello association completed for the home you are considering. Read the preparation date beside that number before you sign. If the version or the date looks wrong, raise it in writing with the selling owner's agent.
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