Strategic Planning Definition and PhilosophyStrategic planning is more than ensuring your association will remain financially sound and be able to maintain its reserves—it's projecting where your association expects to be in five, ten, or fifteen years—and how your association will get there. It Read More...

As of 2002, there are 240,000 community associations--condominium associations, cooperatives, and homeowners associations--in the United States, representing nearly 20 million homes and 45 million people. Currently, the average U.S. family spends nearly $1,300 a year on energy bills, with much of th Read More...

Use this checklist if you are going to sell the Association’s lien rights: When to consider assigning association’s lien:  Property is being foreclosed on by the first mortgage holder and association is not going to redeem.  Often times an association will be contacted by investors if there is Read More...

This publication is an accumulation of the Association's policies. We intend that it is a statement of purposes, policies, values, perspectives and relationships. Because of its nature this is intended to be a "work in progress." "Work in progress" in the respect that it will continue to grow and to Read More...

“A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.”  So states Samuel Goldwyn, in Goldwyn’s Law of Contracts.  What he didn’t say is that even a written contract, without key provisions, could be every bit as worthless as a verbal one.  The following are some key provisions that ev Read More...

The Service member's Civil Relief Act (SCRA) expanded upon the former Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act (SSCRA). The SCRA provides a wide range of protections for individuals entering, called to active duty in the military, or deployed service members. What affect does this law have on your a Read More...

In creating reasonable rules following a process will help ensure that the rule is necessary as well as valid: Determine the need for the proposed rule.  Good rules accomplish exactly what the board intended them to accomplish.  Unfortunately, some associations try to solve a problem by passing ru Read More...

Summer night breezes, a cool walk in the park and a barking dog…These are the ingredients for a great evening.  If dog barking has become a problem in your community, here are six easy solutions to silence the barking. Personal contact.  If the board is comfortable approaching the owner, many ti Read More...

The Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act (CCIOA) requires associations to make annual disclosures within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year.  Since the fiscal year for most associations ends on December 31st, associations with a fiscal year ending on that date should start planning to make Read More...

The purpose of An Introduction to Community Association Living is to introduce homeowners to community associations, provide a greater understanding of exactly how a community association works from both an organizational and people standpoint, and to endow home-owners with the information necessary Read More...