Board members and managers serving community associations are confronted with a daunting list of obligations. These responsibilities include budgeting and financial issues; repair, maintenance and construction issues; legal interpretations, issues and disputes; planning, evaluation and policymaking; as well as devising information systems and governance procedures to fulfill all of these functions. This article provides aGo to Newsletter
Tired of hearing phrases like that each time you send a violation letter?  Tired of feeling like you are back in grade school?  Enforcement of covenants seems to bring out the same questions of fairness we had when we were all children.  We want to be treated fairly and we don’t want to be toldGo to Newsletter
Most HOA boards have had at least one homeowner request access to and copies of association records.  Many boards have also had requests from many different homeowners, or received many requests from a single homeowner where the requests seem to be invading the privacy of other owners if produced.  How should these requests be handled?Go to Newsletter
Go back to 2012.  An owner in your community e-mails the board or your manager, asking for copies of all of the association’s financial records for the last 15 years.  Or he wants to see all of the e-mails between the Board members related to a controversial assessment increase.  Or he wants to see allGo to Newsletter