What You Need to Know About the Trend of Condo/HOA Managers Hooking Up Their Bodycams
In this week’s tip, we report on a new trend that’s growing—HOA managers wearing bodycams...
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More Condo/HOA Managers Turning to Bodycams, Either Voluntarily or With a Push
We saw a reference to HOA managers wearing bodycams. What?! Then we asked several of our manager experts, and they said yep, it’s a growing trend—including in owners’ units and at meetings, where they believe it keeps some owners’ worst behavior in check—but that some insurers also require it....
HOA Checklists: Your Road Map for an Entire Year of Homeowner Association Operations
Special Report -- newly updated and expanded for the 2nd edition -- is intended to be your road map for an entire year of operations that you begin using today and turn to for years to come....
HOA Board Misreads (Or Doesn’t Read at All?) Their Documents, Then Goes from 0 to 100 in Enforcement [HOAleader.com Video]
In this week’s tip, we try to understand how a HOA board didn’t know they had the authority to regulate rentals. We also assess whether this board’s newly discovered enforcement authority is perhaps being applied too aggressively, you know, considering their failure to enforce at all until now....
Consider This Your Friendly Reminder to Read Your Condo/HOA Documents (Plus, Is This Enforcement Too Much Too Soon?) [HOAleader.com Video]
If you had no idea your governing documents gave you the authority to regulate rentals (wait, what?), can you now hit the gas and start enforcing proceedings against almost half of your owners?...
Tech-Savvy Condo/HOA Manager Shares His Best AI Secrets
“AI is here,” says Brad van Rooyen, president of Folio Association Management, a Florida-based firm that manages 90,000 residents and 45,000 homes across Florida that was recently integrated into Odevo, a global community association management firm. “It’s not going anywhere. It’s not a fad.”...
5 Effective Ways This Condo/HOA Manager Is Using AI
“AI is here,” says Brad van Rooyen, president of Folio Association Management, a Florida-based firm that manages 90,000 residents and 45,000 homes across Florida that was recently integrated into Odevo, a global community association management firm. “It’s not going anywhere. It’s not a fad."...
Smart, On-the-Spot Responses When Condo/HOA Owners Surprise or Challenge You
You’ve certainly heard completely off the wall or unworkable suggestions for running your condo or HOA from some of your owners. Your superpower as a board member should be to respond to every one of those recommendations in a way that makes the homeowner feel heard but that doesn’t commit the board to take any action. At the same time, you want to be sure you don’t escalate if you’re already in a tense discussion....
How Expansive Does Your Condo/HOA Board Meeting Notice Need to Be?
A California HOA resident wants to know if their board has to do more than post board meeting notices on the HOA’s website—such as also emailing members....
Long-Term Fixes May Help Ease Your Condo/HOA Insurance Pain
In this week’s tip, we lend a hand to a reader who responded to our request for information on the insurance challenges they’re facing....
The Alleged Roommate and a Condo Board In a Tough Spot
Our experts have seen it repeatedly—an owner in a condo that bans or limits rentals saying they’ve just got a roommate. In one recent case, the condo’s amended bylaws say owners can rent their unit only in cases of hardship. There are no additional rules implemented, such as requiring that owners submit a copy of their rental or roommate agreement. No hardship was sought, and then the owner took in a “roommate,” as other owners have done over the years....
Struggling to Get Affordable Condo/HOA Insurance? Our Experts Have Ideas
We asked our readers to tell us the challenges they’re having with insurance. One reader wrote in and said: “We’ve had two incidences of water damage in our 17-owner HOA. One was egregious mold, put aside knowingly for well over a year. We’re in Pittsburgh, and this case cost $40,000. The owner put in $5,000, and the association did, too [it sounds like there was a $10,000 deductible]....
Of All the Ideas to Save Money, This HOA Board Chooses This One?
In this week’s tip, we gasp at a recent report of a board considering removing a safety feature in the common areas—streetlights, to be exact. But safety is a complex issue at many condos and HOAs—how far boards should go to provide safety varies by state law and governing documents. So maybe we’re missing something, and our experts don’t agree?...
