Q I live in a 34 unit condo building in Chicago, IL. About 40% of the units are renter occupied and almost half of those absentee owners live outside the country. The usual Board to owner to renter communication is cumbersome at least and could be a potential risk/liability on matters of security and
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Renters
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Crime
June 2012 Q I live next door to a vacant home and recently one of the garage doors was removed/stolen and the home was vandalized. The home is not secure at all with the missing garage door. I believe the home is a bank-owned home but I cannot find any information on owner. What can
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Financial Records – Access
Q Secret Books. I am worried. Our manager, our board president and the bookkeeper are all working under the impressions that the membership is not entitled to see the actual books. The Washington state law is very precise on this, the books belong to the membership. I do not see any evidence of wrong doing
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Surveys
Q We are preparing to survey our community concerning street parking situation. As a starting point are there any “canned” surveys that might be available for us to modify for our purpose. Our community is a mixture of single family homes with adequate parking and wide streets and townhouse with limited parking availability and somewhat
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Website
Q I am a president of our hoa in *******, wv. I would like to put our hoa on the web. Could you advise me of some providers that provide web sites? – John A Check out web providers through the Community Associations Institute (www.caionline.org), and investigate both the national and chapter providers. They specialize
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Agreements
Q I live in a condo building of 4 units (3 and a garden apartment which owns a smaller share of the building since its a smaller unit). In order to get that 75% vote that is necessary to basically do anything in the building, we would need all 3 of the larger units to
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Committees
Q How many members should the HOA have on committees? Our HOA rules do not specify. Is four adequate– such as on the Long Range Planning committee and the Architectural Review Committee. We currently have 7 board members. A The number of volunteers on a committee depends on the type of committee and the level
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Conflict of Interest
August 2012 Q One of our board members recently took a job with our property manager. Neither of them disclosed this arrangement. The rest of the board found this out from several 3rd parties. When confronted, the property manager confirmed the employment and told the board that it was none of their business who they
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Meetings – Parliamentary Procedures
Q If the Chairman of the BoD/President of the Association makes a statement at a BoD meeting to send a letter to the county re: a required legal permit, should that announcement be recorded in the official minutes of that meeting? Thank you. A This is a challenging question and the answer is not
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Committees – Architectural Review
Q Background: We live in a 29-unit co-housing, open-air condominium community with a homeowner’s association board. We are not a typical condominium as residents own individual lots and submit their own plans to build homes. We share common areas: a common house, road, playground, and forest area. Our Architectural Review process and CC&R’s require that