i just looked at casero, sorry not familiar with the build, but from what i see, its a condo because of the shared driveway, NOT because the garage is in the back...
so in the previous post i described the "uncommon" areas of what u "own"... land to center of the earth/ 30,000 ft of airspace etc that you personally are responsible for to maintain...
the following will give u a better idea of what will happen in the "shared/common area" and what condo ownership signifies...
u see, condo treats ownership over driveways and other common areas that u dont "own" by giving u ONE share/vote per unit, regardless of how large ur unit is... so in a typical 10 unit condo HOA, lets say u own a 1000 sq/ft house and the other 9 ppl own 100 sq/ft homes surrounding urs, their vote counts just as equal to urs... u have no muscle/voting power over the other units even though u pretty much own half of the land there...
in newyork they have another way to deal with common area ownership called co-ops, where each unit is given a certain amount of shares, some depending on the size of that lot, so in the above case my 1000 sq/ft house would be issues 10 shares (1 per 100 sq/ft) instead of 1 (like in the above condo reference), while the 9 other ppl would be issued only 1 share... co-ops retains muscle/voting power... co-ops came when rich ppl like the astors decided to sell their mega mansions (land with lots of units on it and/or brownstone mansions which they decided to cut up into sections to make apartments out of) but want to limit the flim flam that could move in... so if P.Diddy wanted to buy a house/penthouse in nyc, co-ops can vote NO on the sale to stop him from buying into the unit regardless of how much money hes willing to throw down for it... condos have no such limiting power...
this is important because if the master HOA needs a vote to add maintain/fix or upgrade/downgrade a common area, sienna and san remo can easily outvote cartona and toscana just by flooding the votes for any such "shared/common area"...
so now u think oh, i own specific areas of the "uncommon" areas and i can do whatever i want in the "uncommon" areas since i own it?, this is not true... introduce CC+R's (scarey music que)... what CC+R's do is dictate what you can or cannot do within BOTH the common areas AND the uncommon areas... u say WHAT WHY? but i OWN the land in the uncommon areas!!!... ppl with driveways are going WHAT? screw that shit I am a SFR i should have NO common area!!... that is what is so scarey about irvine master plan communities... we dont just pay LOTS of money for our homes, but we waive a bunch of our rights on our land too... that said, i dunno if any HOA has actually escalated/sued ppl for CC+R violations, but its kind of scarey that if they choose to and strictly enforce certain things, they can... :-\