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All You Need to Know About Using Social Media to Build Community
Social media can be a phenomenal marketing and communications tool for your community association! But you need a strategy! -
Choosing the Right Lifestyle Community for Your Needs: Five Tips
Lifestyle communities are becoming one of the fastest growing sectors in today's housing market. Read the five most common considerations that go into choosing the right lifestyle community. -
Does My Community Need a Clear Vision to Drive Policies and Compliance?
Discover how your community’s vision ties into both creating and enforcing policies among your residents and homeowners. -
Great Service: Does Your Community Association Management Team Have What It Takes?
The right support, personality and set of expectations from your community are critical for your management team to deliver exceptional results. Does yours have what it takes? -
Eight Skills Community Association Board Presidents Should Master
Are you considering volunteering to serve as the president of the board for your homeowner or condominium association? Here's what the position entails. -
Factors Influencing the Future of Community Management
Community association management has been around for 50 years, making tremendous strides in that short time, as have the communities that have benefited from having professional teams managing their property. -
HOA Parking Rules: 6 Questions to Assess Your Policy
How can you ensure that your association’s parking rules are fair and easy to understand and follow? Here are 6 essential questions to ask before you create or enforce parking policies. -
Five Simple Ways Your Board Can Influence Public Policy
As a Board member, you are familiar with the great things your association does for your community. Some times legislators charged with creating policies and laws that directly affect associations have very little knowledge of their inner workings. -
A capital improvement plan for your Georgia association
A successful capital improvement project requires a lot of planning to ensure that things go as smoothly as possible. Does your community know where to start? -
How Good Policy Enforcement Can Improve Your Community
Your board took the time to create a vision for your community. You’ve gotten buy-in from your residents and crafted policies that support it. Now, how do you enforce those policies to ensure that the vision is supported? -
How to Keep Holiday Spirit While Maintaining Holiday Decor Standards
It can be tough to balance festive and tasteful, when it comes to holiday décor. Setting policies for decorating will help maintain peace and goodwill for all within your association. -
How to Set Pet Policies for Your Community
Very few issues and problems that come up seem to have anything to do with pets. However, here are tips to help resolve any pet-related issues. -
Keep Your Community Safe and Cool: Summer Water Safety
Fishing, boating, swimming, water skiing and other refreshing water sports are a key part of summertime in Georgia. Georgians have plenty of opportunities to enjoy the water throughout the summer months. -
Avoid Board Burnout: Ease Your Workload and Keep Your Sanity
Board members can become overly burdened and burn out. Working with a quality property management company can help ease board burden. Learn how. -
Nine Ways to Build Community Spirit
Community spirit is not something that just happens; it requires an association where residents contribute and enhance the living experience of their neighbors. -
Reopening Amenities: Creating New High-Rise and HOA Swimming Pool Rules
As the weather heats up and stay-at-home orders surrounding COVID-19 are lifted, it's important to remember the social distancing guidelines in place. -
Rule Enforcement During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Whether your board is dealing with emergency rules or general community policies, here are some things to consider when addressing change in your community. -
Board Member Titles and Roles: What Does My Title Mean?
What are key ingredients of a great community? Committed residents, a dedicated board and a clear understanding of everyone's roles and responsibilities, and you have the recipe for success. -
Association Policy 101: How to Make Rules Without Making Enemies
As a board member, you know the importance of making rules and establishing policy; these must be clear and sensible. The process for creating and enforcing rules successfully is the same. -
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! -
Want to Make Your Community Smoke-Free? Four Tips to Help
The dangers of smoking and secondhand smoke have been highlighted in recent years. Smoking also affects our physical environment by increasing risks of fire and property damage, raising insurance rates and increasing legal liability. -
The Top 10: What You Should Expect from Your Property Management Company
Boards are finding that they prefer to hire a quality property management firm than to self-manage. It's not an easy decision for Boards to make, but it is a wise decision and the best one for all involved parties. -
Four ways to set decoration policies for your community association without being a grinch
The holiday season is upon us, and nothing puts you in a festive spirit like pulling your holiday decorations out of storage. Many people derive a sense of community and comfort from seeing familiar decorations at the same time each year. -
How preventive maintenance can keep your HOA ready for all seasons
Cold weather will soon be upon us, so now is the time for your homeowner association (HOA) to make sure your maintenance program is on track. As brutal as Chicago winters can be, you certainly don't want to discover a leak in your roof during a heavy snowfall or have a boiler stop working during a record cold spell. Don't get caught in the cold!