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  • It’s Not Just Planning: Take Your High-rise Emergency Management to the Next Level

    Jul 03, 2018
    Planning for emergencies is step one. Your board also needs to know how to manage those New Jersey high-rise emergencies when they happen.
     
  • Email Communication

    Jul 03, 2018
    You may be unaware that you are opening up all of your emails to scrutiny. When using a personal or work email address to conduct association business, there is a potential liability involved.
  • Emergency Preparedness: What You Need to Know & How Your Management Company Can Help

    Jul 02, 2018
    A good emergency plan is critical to the safety of your Pennsylvania high-rise residents and property. Learn how to create one and execute it today.
  • Difficult Residents: Good Communication Makes All the Difference

    May 17, 2018
    Every community has at least one. You know who they are: the squeaky wheels, the complainers, the busybodies. Difficult residents are a fact of community life. 
  • Pennsylvania HOA fire safety

    Pennsylvania community association fire safety: Your in-depth guide

    Apr 03, 2018
    Part of your job as a board member is ensuring the safety of residents in your community association. To that end, it’s important to educate homeowners about possible fire risks and the steps they can take to prevent fire hazards in their homes.  Chances are that fire safety isn’t top of mind for residents. However, home fires are more common than most people realize.
  • What to look for in a property management company

    What to look for in a property management company

    Oct 27, 2017

    As part of your responsibility to preserve, protect and enhance your community association, you may choose to bring in a professional property management company. Professional management can provide a depth of resources that you may not have access to otherwise, can help you optimize your budget while improving your residents’ lifestyles and more. 

  • qualities of a treasurer

    What Are the Qualities of a Treasurer?

    Aug 18, 2017

    The board members of your community association serve many important leadership functions. Although they may have diverse backgrounds and skill sets, they are all committed to the common goal of bettering your community association, taking actions that ensure its financial health, enhancing property values and improving the lifestyles of the residents. What can happen if you don’t have an effective board treasurer?

  • Choosing the Right Banking Program for your Community Association

    Aug 14, 2017
    As a community association board member, one of your chief responsibilities is to protect the financial interests of your association and your fellow residents. That includes making sure that the association’s reserve and operating funds are carefully managed, protected and invested. Smart decision-making and sound financial stewardship are critical to the association’s long-term financial stability and health. Unfortunately, even the best-intentioned board members may not have the experience or financial knowledge to choose the right banking programs and products to meet their community association’s needs. What should you look for when choosing the best banking program for your association? Read on…
  • Seven Essential Financial Best Practices for Your Community Association

    Aug 11, 2017

    Community associations can be wonderful. They have amenities that otherwise might not be so close to home, like a community pool, fitness center, golf course or riding trails. Being part of a managed community often means having shared interests with your neighbors, imparting a sense of community that isn’t easy to achieve in an ever-transient world. It means that everyone abides by the same high aesthetic standards. But none of that happens without stable finances, including a balanced budget and a well-funded reserve.

  • Five Steps You Can Take to Maintain Your HOA’s Financial Fitness

    Aug 11, 2017

    The principles to fiscal fitness and physical fitness aren’t that different: Don’t overindulge. Make smart choices. Keeping your community association’s finances healthy requires care and exercising good judgment. Follow our tips to help you do that.