When HOA boards behave badly
Q: Your June 7 column addressed the rights of the HOA board or the board members when they believe an association member’s conduct is bothersome. What about the converse – where an HOA board acts...
View ArticleThe Board and Homeowner Struggle
One of the most often asked questions we hear from disgruntled homeowners is “who gave the board the right to tell me how to live my life?” This is a question we hear almost every day, and it is one...
View ArticleFrustrated? Stifled? Trying to Get Something on the Agenda of Your HOA?
I commonly receive questions about meeting and committee agendas. Owners want to get something on the agenda for an upcoming meeting. Sometimes the owner is also a board member. And somehow the item...
View ArticleHow to have a yard sale in a homeowners association
Do you live in a homeowners association (HOA) and want to plan a yard sale to get rid of the stuff your family no longer needs? Don’t post flyers all around town advertising your sale just yet. Before...
View ArticleAre You Being Reasonable, or Are You Harassing Your Association? It May Turn...
Many homeowners are unhappy about the management of and/or by their community associations: They don’t give me financials on time. They don’t give me the documents I want. I don’t see where my dues are...
View ArticleWhen Boards Don’t Play by the Rules: Controlling Rogue Board Members
Many if not most boards of trustees get along famously. There are boards that have had the same members for decades and run their communities without a hitch. But sometimes boards don’t get along so...
View ArticleHow to Work with All the Members of the Board
Some people are just negative, making it hard to work with them. While you may simply want to avoid those people, it’s impossible to avoid them when they are part of your board. Learn the importance of...
View ArticleYour Board’s Presence Is Present Enough: Don’t forget to say “Thank you” this...
We’ve all received the party invitation with a note letting us know that gifts are not requested–Your presence is present enough. Some of us take the cue, while others go above and beyond and bring a...
View Article“We want to remove the board because we want to fire the manager”
So, this won’t be like my usual posts where I share a recent case or discuss a section of the Condominium Act, 1998. Today I’m going on a rant about the relationships between owners, directors, and...
View Article5 Ways to Get ‘Sticky’ with Award-Winning Community Associations
For a Community Association Management Company, there is one metric that is especially important to your success, but hard to quantify. Let’s call it Stickiness. Stickiness is the ability of your...
View ArticleDealing with a rogue condo board
Most boards in condominium associations are filled with well-meaning, pleasant men and women who willingly give up free time. They do this, strangely enough, to volunteer at odd hours to help run their...
View ArticleIs your condo association run by a ‘bully board?’
“Bully boards” are so prevalent in the world of condominiums that the term is commonplace among community association property managers and real estate attorneys. It’s a moniker used to describe condo...
View Article5 Reasons There’s a Disconnect Between the HOA Board and Homeowners
The success of a homeowners association is based on the members and Board working together. If the community is not taken care of, it will catch up with Association, affect property values, decrease...
View ArticleRoles and responsibilities of a community association board
To uphold their fiduciary duty, boards must run their community associations according to governing documents, applicable law and good business sense. Some responsibilities are given to all board...
View ArticleThe Secrets to Handling Negative People in Your Board of Directors
All-in-all, many board members are people who simply care about the community in which they live and who sincerely want to do what is right for the condominium residents. They are often fairly well...
View ArticleWe Don’t Hear You: Handling Board Complaints
Communication is vital to running a successful condo complex or co-op building. So what happens when dwellers complain that board members are not listening and—even worse —ignoring their problems?...
View ArticleGetting an HOA Approval for House Color
Some homeowners associations have strict rules regarding what color you can paint the exterior of your home. In other communities, they may require you to get an approval before you paint your house a...
View ArticleConfessions of a Manager: What Every HOA Board Should Know
Do you want to be the best Board you can be? Then you’ve found a goldmine because we asked a seasoned and experienced HOA manager what he hoped all HOA board members would learn early on to help them...
View ArticleSolve homeowners association problems with politics
An attorney who specializes in condominium- and homeowner-association law said electing a new board of directors is often the best and cheapest solution to problems with an ineffective or incompetent...
View ArticleI Really Don’t Like My Neighbor’s Tenants
It is an all too common situation, especially in coastal communities, mountain retreats, and college towns: You bought a home in a planned community that has a homeowners’ association with thoughts of...
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