How To Manage The Most Challenging Homeowners’ Issues At Your HOA Regardless of where you live, conflicts can arise between your residents or HOA board (BOD) members. What makes an HOA successful is their preparation for handling those disputes and solve them promptly. If your HOA board has been struggling with resident and HOA board…
DetailsDealing With HOA Violations In The Community Residents benefit a great deal from living in a community that has an HOA. However, residents do have to understand that the improved quality of life in their community does come with a price. Residents are expected to adhere to HOA guidelines while living in the community. When…
DetailsTips On Selecting The Right Vendors For Your HOA One great challenge for HOAs is to choose the appropriate vendors to complete the required tasks of their communities. If HOAs are not careful, they will end up spending unnecessary amounts of their allotted budgets on expenses that they could have found less expensive elsewhere. For…
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One of the most difficult issues for HOA board members to manage is what kind of insurance that their association has. Carefully researching what kind of insurance policy that your association will invest in is essential to maintaining coverage for major expenses that may arise as your association deals with the many different issues that…
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The end of the year is a very fun time for residents within communities across the United States. Residents are inclined to make their homes look festive both inside and out. Where the holiday season can become complicated is deciding how to balance decorating the outside of homes within your community while still adhering to…
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Since the end of the year is now approaching, HOAs need to ensure that they have completed all of their required tasks to successfully close out their fiscal year and end of year strategic planning. When considering what tasks need to be completed before 2019 ends, it is wise to review the list below to…
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Dealing with difficult homeowners is inevitable for board members of an HOA. It is just part of the job. Every community will face conflict and have its fair share of difficult people. A key part of your job as a board member is to keep the peace and diffuse any difficult situations as they arise.…
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Much like a business, a functioning community incurs costs and earns revenue. As such, it’s important to set up HOA accounting standards to maintain accurate financial reporting. Now, accounting can be quite stressful for community managers to navigate. With so much money going in and out, sometimes on a daily basis, it can be a…
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The Importance of Having an HOA Maintenance Checklist As communities age, it is important for them to be maintained properly. The communities that do not invest in this end up deteriorating much faster, which can subsequently cause property values to decrease exponentially. It is important for communities, regardless of their size, to have a maintenance…
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In many ways, a homeowners association is comparable to a business, and the HOA board heads it. The board handles a wide range of duties such as overseeing repairs, maintaining common areas, and managing monetary funds. In addition to this, there are certain HOA legal responsibilities to keep in mind. As a board member, you…
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