You would take the word of a lawyer and not read through association documents? Not a good idea.
When you buy a home you go there at different hours of the day, on different days of the week. You talk with neighbors. If there is an association you talk with trustees.
You are going to spend a big percentage of your life and a big percentage of your net worth for this place. You're going to rely on some girl/guy who couldn't get into medical school to read the documents you should read?
Lmao! You are correct.
My current home is a newbuild and before I bought I looked over the plans for the whole development of 7 homes, checked out a dozen or so other homes and sites the developer built to see how the construction was, whether or not the developer was timely with delivering all the custom details he had promised, etc.
Funny thing is, everyone was real happy with his work, had nothing but nice things to say about him - and then two years after we moved in to our (very satisfactory) house he was sent up for tax evasion, leaving a number of people with half-finished homes.