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Be Prepared with These Landscaping Safety Tips for Hurricanes
This hurricane season, start your preparations from the outside in with these 13 landscaping quick fixes. -
Here's How Your Property Management Staff Can Prepare for a Hurricane
Does your onsite property management staff know policies and procedures, and their individual roles when a storm is on the horizon? -
Nine Steps to Building the Spirit of the Community
Association boards strive for a property of residents brimming with community spirit. A tightly knit community can be the product of following just a few simple steps. -
Not Your Grandma’s Retirement Community: Today’s Active Adult Communities in Florida
Baby Boomers, the largest generation in United States history, turning 55 in 2019. Their children are grown, retired or scaling back on full-time work, and it's their time in the sun. Literally. -
Policies for Hurricane Season: What Your Community Needs to Know
What hurricane policies should you have in place to make sure that all residents are on the same page and protected? -
Discover the 8 Steps of Budgeting Process
Your budget should be a tool to move your community to action, and as such, it is important to follow some guidelines. Below are eight tips for preparing a budget that works. -
Rebuilding After a Major Storm: What Your Community Needs to Know
As high-rises and community associations in Florida know, you can take all the precautions and make the right preparations before a hurricane and still suffer devastating effects. -
Conflict Resolution for Condo and HOA Community Association Board Members
Ideally, all parties in a homeowners or condo association agree, but In the real world, disagreements are a fact of life. Get tips on conflict resolution at your HOA or condo community from industry experts.ca -
Here's What to Know About Conducting an HOA Reserve Study
If you are a high-rise Board member, resident or property owner looking for the peace of mind that insurance provides, make sure you have the correct coverage. Follow our guidelines! -
Seven Ways to Fight Mold - And Win
In Florida, mold is something we all will encounter sooner or late. How can you keep mold from taking over your sanctuary? And if it has, how can you eradicate it? These tips will help maintain a healthy home. -
The Deadline for Fire Sprinkler Retrofitting is Fast Approaching. Is Your Condominium Ready?
Confusion may grow as deadlines for Florida condominiums fire sprinkler retrofitting draw near. The statutes applicability to all condominiums as opposed to just high-rise also raises questions. -
The Facts About Radon and What Exposure Can Mean for You and Your Family
Radon can pose a threat to our health and well-being. Below is an overview of what radon is, where it's found, its risks and how you can protect your home and your family from it. -
Top 10 Socially Distant Activities to Keep Your Community Healthy
As the days and weeks pass, and residents of your condominium or HOA are asked to stay home, it's more important than ever to help your community stay fit and active! -
Buying the Best Insurance for Your High-Rise: Seven Tips
High-rises are a growing segment of the Georgia housing market. A complex high-rise has its complexities, too, and one of those is finding the right insurance coverage. -
Fire Safety Tips for Condos and High-Rises
High-rises come with challenges, and chief among them is fire safety. Here are four Fire Safety Tips from the experts at National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). -
How Your Property Management Company Can Help Your Community Prepare for Tornadoes
Tornadoes are fearsome because of their unpredictable nature. They can strike at any time of year and almost any place. Here's how to stay prepared! -
Is Your Staff Properly Trained to Respond to Emergencies?
Whether you live in a high-rise condominium, a gated community or an active adult community, emergencies happen. Does your onsite staff know what to do to protect residents and the community? -
Keeping Your Community Safe During Summer Vacation Season
Georgia is fortunate to have milder winters than much of the United States, but summer is still the most wonderful time of year for a lot of people. Of course, a lot of folks take that opportunity to travel. -
Riding the Storm Out: How Your Property Management Company Can Help With Hurricane Planning
In recent years, hurricanes have become so large that they can affect the entire state of Florida and move well into Georgia, causing loss of power, flooding or sustained damage. -
Top 10 Socially Distant Activities to Keep Your Community Healthy
As the days and weeks pass, and residents of your condominium or HOA are asked to stay home, it's more important than ever to help your community stay fit and active! -
Communicating Your Association Budget
Budgeting is the time for making tough decisions for how your association spends its money, and sometimes those decisions can, unfortunately, lead to contention. Clear communication about the association budget should be provided to all homeowners throughout the year to help solve problems before they begin and smoothly pave the way for needed changes. -
Creating Condo and HOA Policies That Make Sense
It’s a common problem that many condo and homeowners’ associations (HOAs) face: rules that simply don’t work as they were intended. Sometimes it’s because they are enforced inconsistently or aren’t enforced at all. Other times it’s because they go too far. At their worst, poorly instituted HOA policies can even cause neighborhood discord. -
Does Your Association Have A Plan For Fostering A Sense Of Community?
Humans are social creatures with a deep-seated yearning for connection and community. This is particularly evident in a condo association or HOA, where a strong sense of community can be the difference between long-standing residency and high turnover. -
Five Steps to Running More Effective HOA Board Meetings
One of the most challenging aspects of being on the board of your homeowners association (HOA) can be running board meetings. It’s not always easy to keep everyone tuned into the business at hand. In addition, you have to manage the inevitable disagreements among board members. How do you keep these meetings running smoothly?