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Should Delinquent Owners be Allowed to Vote?

Filed Under Collections, Governance, Litigation, Meetings / Action Without Meetings

Posted February 1, 2013

Does your community have an upcoming homeowner meeting that includes voting on issues such as director elections, special assessments, or document amendments? Assuming your community also has owners that are delinquent in the payment of assessments, do you allow such owners to participate in the vote? Since the number of delinquencies and violations in associationsGo to Resource

Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Making Sure Your Meeting Notices are Properly Done

Filed Under Governance, Meetings / Action Without Meetings

Posted February 1, 2013

Your association has an important and controversial issue to decide at its annual meeting. As a manager or board member, the last thing you want is to go through the effort of calling the meeting, gathering proxies, and holding the vote, only to have the decision challenged on some notice technicality. An ounce of preventionGo to Resource

Meeting Moment–Amending Minutes

Filed Under Governance, Meetings / Action Without Meetings

Posted December 3, 2012

The first action item on most owners’ meeting agendas is approving the minutes of the last owners’ meeting. Let’s say that — as usual — you have an ambitious agenda, with many action items and a limited time in which to get through them all. But when the secretary moves to approve last year’s minutes,Go to Resource

Meeting Moment – Leadership Tips for the Minority

Filed Under Governance, Meetings / Action Without Meetings

Posted November 1, 2012

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

Keeping the Peace

Filed Under Governance, Meetings / Action Without Meetings

Posted November 1, 2012

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

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