- Building Communities Through Committees
- Once committees get started on their assignment, one can encourage greater community participation
- 5 Things The Pros Do Before Every Board Meeting
- Preparation not only enables you to participate more thoroughly, but you also appear more professional and reliable.
- 5 Tips When Nobody Will Run for the HOA Board
- What happens when no one will run for the HOA board?
- A Guide to Successful Association Meetings
- A list of agenda items and suggestions for having a successful annual meeting
- After a Board Recall - Turning Things Around
- There will be those whose actions prompt the members to attempt a full recall of the board.
- Assessments, Dues, and Fees -- Oh My!
- How to figure the amount of assessment necessary to run the association/hoa.
- Association Basics for Committees
- Often overlooked or under-appreciated, committees are the basic building blocks of a healthy association.
- 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
- 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.
- Budgeting Whys and Wherefores
- What goes into a good association budget.
- Communicate Before You Terminate
- When the Board and Management have good communications, small problems are resolved before they become big problems.
- Creating Association Committees
- How to create a committee to do its job effectively.
- Creating Harmony In Your Community
- Find ways to educate and encourage members, and at the same time protect and preserve their physical assets
- 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
- Fixing What the Previous Board Did
- Community Associations are like a living entity, which exist in a state of constant evolution
- 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
- How Do You Communicate?
- It is up to us to use our communication skills to be successful in our business lives.
- How To Start A Neighborhood Association
- A step by step guide to help you start your own neighborhood association.
- How to remove an HOA board member
- Need to recall a member of your community associations board
- How to take good HOA board meeting minutes
- Meeting minutes are official records for your homeowners association. Learn what must be included and how to take good minutes.
- If You Must Have An Audit
- Audits can make people nervous. We all fear the dreaded "IRS audit"
- Is Your Neighborhood Ready For 2011?
- Things to include when doing yearly planning for your 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.
- Motivating and Recruiting Members
- Ways to motivate and recruit members for the Association
- Organization: The Key To Effective Management
- Ways to organize Association files so information is at your fingertips
- Questionnaires: Taking the Pulse of the Community
- How to create a questionnaire and what questions to ask.
- 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
- Run an effective HOA meeting
- Five tips to help make your HOA meetings run more smoothly.
- 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
- 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 Association Calendar: Guide to Important Dates
- Using a yearly calendar to promote continuity and compliance with HOA regulations
- Transition Inspections: What are the Engineers Looking At?
- Tips for the inspection process when the HOA is transitioning from Developer to Homeowners
- What Should You Expect from Your Management Company?
- The qualities an association should look for in a management company
- What is Fiduciary Duty?
- Though the term is typically used in the legal and governmental system, it can also be applied to any professional relationship,