Every year boards seem to struggle trying to figure out how best to comply with the owner education requirement in CCIOA. But did you know CCIOA affords boards almost unfettered discretion concerning this requirement? Section 209.7 of CCIOA applies to both pre and post-CCIOA communities and requires associations to provide (or cause to be provided)Go to Resource
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Usually this column gives advice to the president or chair of a meeting. Today, our advice is for the “loyal opposition”, those members in the minority. Let’s say you are concerned about how the Board is handling, or failing to handle an issue. How can you best advocate for your position at an owner’s meeting?Go to Resource
We have all been to one of those meetings – the ones where the association is facing a controversial issue with strong emotions on each side. The board and manager are usually anxious about how to handle the meeting, the competing arguments, and the emotions in the room. This can be a difficult role forGo to Resource
I. OVERVIEW OF THE BASICS “Community Association” is the generic term for communities that are created pursuant to recorded covenants or other documents that create an association of the unit or homeowners. The term community association includes condominiums, homeowner associations and housing cooperatives. These are typically organized as non-profit corporations. Condominiums. A condominium isGo to Resource
Do you think your neighbors ever wonder where the monthly association dues are going? Is it all going into the flower bed at the front of the subdivision or are substantial neighborhood improvements underway? Just how good a job is your homeowners association doing? With thousands of homeowners associations operating communities, it is a questionGo to Resource