As a board member and homeowner of a condo, townhome, or HOA community, it is critical that you hire a highly skilled and accountable management company. Hiring the WRONG community property management company can adversely impact your association in many ways. Leaks, floods, overspending on projects are just some of the issues that may result […]
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Stress
As a board member and homeowner at your community association, one of your main responsibilities (regardless of whether you have a community property management company or not) is to properly maintain the common elements of the association and to avoid maintenance emergencies such as floods and life threatening events such as fires. Fires clearly are […]
1. Statistics show there is high percentage of associations who plan their budget only one year in advance. Is your association part of that group? Best run associations have a 5 year capital plan, which allows for better planning, better budgeting and lesser reliance on special assessments to fund capital improvements and replacements. This results in less […]
I get it. You have so many things to take care of and so little time. And there is never enough time to take care of everything. And to add further insult to injury, life keeps getting more complex and more demanding especially due to the new technologies that make it easier and easier to […]
Over the years that I have spent in the community association industry as a CEO of a community management company, I have gone on quite a few sales calls with board of directors shopping for new management services. Somewhat surprisingly, the feedback that I have gotten typically focuses on all the mistakes and shortcomings of […]
Do you live in a community association? If so, you probably bought into a community association with the notion that it would be worry free and stress free to some extent. Isn’t the idea supposed to be that all you have to do is pay the monthly assessment fee and everything is taken care of? […]
So what do you do when you have some unruly people at a board meeting or at a community block party? 1. Kill them with kindness 2. Make the person feel seen and heard. Listen intently to what the other person is saying rather that thinking of what your response will be. You don’t have […]