Association Resources
- Building Communities Through Committees
- Once committees get started on their assignment, one can encourage greater community participation
- A Day in the Life of a Community Manager
- What a Community Manager does, with a list of Do's and Don'ts
- A Guide to Effective Presentations
- 4 steps for creating an effective presentation
- A Guide to Successful Association Meetings
- A list of agenda items and suggestions for having a successful annual meeting
- Achieving Quorum
- How to ensure you have enough homeowners present (or voting by proxy) to reach quorum at your board meeting
- Active Adults – Not Only “Active” But “Activists”
- The demographics of our country are changing. Our population is aging.
- After a Board Recall – Turning Things Around
- There will be those whose actions prompt the members to attempt a full recall of the board.
- An Effective Meeting Agenda
- Using a Meeting Agenda to keep meetings on track and to the point
- Architectural Approval Process
- The functions and how to procees of an architectural control or review committee for an association.
- Architectural Policies:
- Guidelines for establishing an architectural policy for homeowner and neighborhood associations.
- Are You Ready For Next Year?
- Things to include when doing yearly planning for your association
- Assessment Delinquency Rates
- Managers are beginning to see more associations with delinquency rates approaching 20%.
- Assessments, Dues, and Fees -- Oh My!
- How to figure the amount of assessment necessary to run the association/hoa.
- Association Consistency – Key To Success
- Perhaps the most frustrating thing for a customer is inconsistent service.
- Association Foreclosure: No Small Chore!
- What happens once a property is owned by the Association due to foreclosure
- Association Records: What's Available to the Members
- Help knowing which association records are to be public and which can be private
- Attracting Volunteers
- People volunteer for things they feel good about.
- Board Meetings for Every Situation
- Board Meeting types and their uses.
- Board Member Roles
- The roles of an Association Board member include being a leader, a policy maker, an enforcer, an arbitrator and a strategic planner
- Board of Directors: Who Are They and What Do They Do?
- Rights and responsibilities of Association Board members
- Board vs. Management Conflicts
- Types of board/management conflicts and how to avoid them.
- Budget Preparation Tips
- Things to take into account when preparing the association's budget.
- Budgeting Whys and Wherefores
- What goes into a good association budget.
- CC&R's - Isn't that a 60's Rock Band?
- Understanding governing documents (Covenants, conditions and restrictions).
- Cats and Dogs... A Manager's Tale
- An association manager talks about pet issues and pet stories for HOAs
- Closing Out Your Year End Financial Statements
- What to consider when closing out the year's books
- Communicate Before You Terminate
- When the Board and Management have good communications, small problems are resolved before they become big problems.
- Community Association Communication During the Development Period
- During the developement period, an effective communications system is needed and is comprised of several components.
- Condo Association Insurance - Who Covers What?
- Looking at Condominium Association Master Insurance Policies - who covers what?
- Condo Association Loans—2 Burning Questions...
- Many Condo Associations and HOAs are investigating loans as opposed to assessing their members. There are two burning questions.
- Condo Maintenance - Who Has Responsibility for What?
- A description of how to determine who is responsible for what on a condominium property.
- Condominium - A Type Of Ownership
- A discussion of what constitutes condominium owership and its importance
- Creating A Fire Defensible Space
- Wildfires are among the nation’s growing natural hazards.
- Creating Association Committees
- How to create a committee to do its job effectively.
- Creating Association Rules
- Thoughts on creating reasonable and enforceable association rules
- Creating Harmony In Your Community
- Find ways to educate and encourage members, and at the same time protect and preserve their physical assets
- Creating a new Community Association
- Six steps for creating a new association and some preconceptions
- Dealing with Difficult People the Practical Way
- Ideas for dealing with difficult people.
- Deed Restriction Enforcement
- Dealing with Deed Restrictions and Enforcement
- Deferred Maintenance. . .
- Deferring the common area maintenance of an owners association can have negative and lasting effects upon a community.
- Developer/Homeowner Transition: A Guide To Success
- A how to guide to transitioning a development from developer control to owner control.
- Directors, Officers and Conflicts of Interest
- A discussion of conflicts of interest, potential and actual, and and how to handle them.
- Dispute Resolution
- Challenges in resolving disputes between the Association and home owner
- Dispute Resolution: Give Mediation a Chance
- Compared to a lawsuit, mediation is swift, confidential, fair and low cost.
- Does Your Board Have the Correct Number of Directors?
- The importance of having the correct number of Directors on the board and ways to ensure compliance
- Effective HOA Communications
- Tips to help the HOA communicate effectively with its members.
- Employee or Independent Contractor?
- Determining employee or independent contractor status with IRS criteria
- Establishing Association Rules
- Things you should know before adopting new rules for your Association.
- Establishing a Landscape Liaison
- How to establish a landscape liaison person for your association.
- FCC Satellite and Antenna Regulations-the OTARD Rule
- How the OTARD Rule affects Community Association regulations for satellite dishes and antennas
- Federal Laws Do Apply to Homeowner Associations
- A summary of the Federal laws which apply to HOAs including Equal Employment Opportunity, Fair Housing, and FCC regulations
- Financial Reporting: Key to Sound Decision-Making
- Using accounting principals to provide financail reports and information to the HOA
- Fixing What the Previous Board Did
- Community Associations are like a living entity, which exist in a state of constant evolution
- Get To Know Your Town
- Here are just some of the reasons to get to know your town.
- Glossary of HOA Terms
- Glossary of terms used in homeowner association documents
- Greening Up Our Community Associations
- It is no longer considered "weird" to show your concern for the environment
- Have An Effective and Efficient Meeting Every Time
- How parliamentary procedure can solve common dissatisfactions with association meetings
- Holding Successful Meetings
- Tips on planning and having a successful association meeting.
- How Do You Communicate?
- It is up to us to use our communication skills to be successful in our business lives.
- How Your Association Can Go Green
- Al Gore has warned us about global warming and most of us think we should do something.
- How to Tame the Unruly Meeting
- Naturally, planning ahead helps to provide some insurance against losing control.
- If You Must Have An Audit
- Audits can make people nervous. We all fear the dreaded "IRS audit"
- It's Budget Time!
- Checklist to help prepare an HOA budget
- It's Never too Early to Cover Your Assets
- Looking at how to provide funding for replacement of physical assets
- Loans for HOAs and Condo Associations
- Talks about how HOAs and Condo Associations have begun using loans as an alternative to large assessments.
- Making The Most of The Annual Meeting
- The different aspects of planning and holding a succesful annual meeting for an association.
- Making the Connection with Your Local Government
- Making the Connection with Your Local Government
- Management Challenges for Small Community Associations
- Challenges for a small association in finding a management firm.
- Management and Homeowner Communication
- How Homeowners and Management can communicate effectively about property issues
- Meeting Manners Matter
- Common sense manners to remember for association meetings.
- Motivating and Recruiting Members
- Ways to motivate and recruit members for the Association
- New Owners - Putting Your Association's Best Foot Forward
- Creating a positive impression of the association for new owners
- Organization: The Key To Effective Management
- Ways to organize Association files so information is at your fingertips
- Planning For The Future
- What to consider in long-term planning for the Association
- Planning for Disaster
- How to be prepared for a disaster in your Association
- Practical Painting
- Curb appeal is greatly affected by the condition of the building's paint.
- Protecting Homeowner Personal Information
- How prepared is your association or your management company in today's high technology world of information?
- Public Relations: What Can Your Association Do?
- Using the Media to improve your association's image
- Questionnaires: Taking the Pulse of the Community
- How to create a questionnaire and what questions to ask.
- Reserve Now Or Pay Later
- Important responsibilities of the association’s board of directors
- Reserve Studies
- Overseeing how reserve funds should be set up and managed for an HOA
- Review vs. Audit
- Differences between an annual financial audit or financial review
- Risk Management Through Property Inspection
- Community Managers should develop a detailed site inspection chart for risk management
- Risk Management and Insurance
- How insurance policies can help with risk management
- Roof Replacements: No margin for error
- Various factors a community association needs to consider when replacing roofs.
- Rules Enforcement Process
- Suggestions on policies and procedures for enforcing a Homeowner Association's Covenants and Deed Restrictions
- Selecting A Pool Management Company
- The selection of a certified and well trained pool management company is your first line of defense.
- Selecting a Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- Tips for choosing a CPA and a sample RFP to engage one
- Selecting and Contracting Service Providers
- What to consider when selecting a service provider and creating the contract with the Association
- Smart Irrigation Controllers
- A Smart Irrigation Controller can save you and your clients money with very little time and effort.
- Super Director
- How many of us have experienced the Board member who wants to control all aspects of the association's operation
- Taking Minutes Whose Job Is It And Why?
- Essentials for recording the Minutes at Association meetings.
- Talking to the Press
- Tips for a positive relationship with the Press
- Team Building for Associations
- How the Association can work as a team
- The Art and Value of Communications in Association Management
- Tips to ensure effective communication between Managemnt, Board Members, and Homeowners
- The Association Calendar: Guide to Important Dates
- Using a yearly calendar to promote continuity and compliance with HOA regulations
- The Case For Reserves: A Cautionary Tale
- Case study regarding the importance of funding reserves no matter the age of the association
- The Controlling Director
- How do you handle a controlling individual and keep the association out of trouble?
- The Developer Controlled Community
- The various aspects and differences between managing a developer-controlled community versus a homeowner-controlled community
- The Great Debate: Should We Reserve for Siding?
- Siding upkeep and whether it should be part of the Capital Reserve Fund
- The Importance of Reserve Planning and Funding
- Why Reserve Funding is crucial
- The Unhappy Co-Owner
- How Condo Boards should handle unhappy members
- Time Away From The Office
- It serves nobody well, including clients, for staff to forgo vacations because of workload
- Transition Inspections: What are the Engineers Looking At?
- Tips for the inspection process when the HOA is transitioning from Developer to Homeowners
- Transition Time is at Hand!
- Reflections from a Community Manager on the transition between a Developer run association to Homeowner control
- Understanding Authority is Key to HOA Communication
- Achieving effective communication between homeowners, HOA board, and the property management company
- Understanding Financial Statements: Internal Controls
- Internal controls checklist to insure financial transactions are executed with the proper authority
- Understanding Financial Statements: The Balance Sheet
- Primer on understanding finanical statements
- What Is The Value Of A Homeowner Association?
- How the HOA can protect property values and maintain standards
- What Should You Expect from Your Management Company?
- The qualities an association should look for in a management company
- Who Does “Our” Attorney Represent?
- An association's legal counsel represents the association, right?
- Why Have a Professional Reserve Study?
- Reasons to have your association's reserve study done professionally
- Workers Compensation Insurance?
- Reasons why HOA's are required to carry Workers Comp Insurance
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