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Are your Homeowners Satisfied with your HOA?
HOAs and condo associations work hard upholding covenants and administering rules. By following a framework that is meant to keep all residents’ quality of life high and home values up, the board operates under the presumed idea that they are looking after everyone’s...
Can You Force a Board Member Out?
Running a strong board for an HOA, condo association or other community association can be tough work. There are so many logistics, safety concerns and opinions to consider. You have to manage the budget, keep the peace between neighbors, consider long-term projects,...
What If a Board Member Wants to Resign?
So, you have a board member who wants or needs to resign? Depending on the situation there could be lots of emotions (or even accusations) flying around. The board member could have resigned for completely understandable personal reasons or there could have been major...
It’s the Dry Season: Is Your Roof a Part of Your 2021 HOA Budget?
While we’ve talked a lot about budgeting needs for your HOA and condo association, there is a specific subject regarding budget that we wanted to tackle in this blog. It’s the reserve fund. What is the reserve fund? The reserve fund, or reserve budget, exists to take...
Collecting HOA Dues and Unpaid Assessments 10 Months Into the COVID-19 Pandemic
HOAs, condo associations and other communities have banded together to confront the challenges of COVID-19. At this point, we are approaching a year into COVID-19, which was declared a pandemic by the WHO on March 11th, 2020. We’ve navigated implementing emergency...
Properly Planning for a New Year
After a year like 2020, we might feel lucky just to still have a roof over heads and a community to live in. There’s nothing like a pandemic, social justice movements, natural disasters and an election to put things in perspective. But for HOAs and condo associations,...
Good Riddance to 2020:
What We Learned and What We Hope For Goodbye, so long, don’t let the door hit you on your way out. 2020, bless you and the lessons you taught us, but we couldn’t be happier to say adios. While we never hope to see a year like that again, we did learn quite a lot about...
Preparing for a New Year in Your HOA
With 2020 coming to a close we look to prepare for 2021 after one of the most challenging years most of us have ever experienced in our lifetimes. While it has not been the easiest year, we have been amazed and impressed by how HOAs, condo associations and planned...
How COVID-19 Has Impacted BODs and HOAs
It has now been a full year since COVID-19 has taken the world by storm. We have seen massive shifts in every facet of life across the globe. And on a local level, in our HOAs, condo associations and housing cooperatives, we have had to make many adaptations to the...