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No Trip Zone

No Trip Zone

Just as an automobile manufacturer publishes standards for the type of gasoline and lubricants to be used in their automobiles, flooring comes with detailed specifications for the installation, use and maintenance of the product.

If you have installed the wrong flooring product or find you are maintaining it with the wrong cleaning fluids, consider yourself lucky.

Motivating & Rewarding Passion

Motivating & Rewarding Passion

What are your volunteers interested in, passionate about? What are they good at? What do they want to learn about?

Suspicion of Fraud

Suspicion of Fraud

Q: A visitor to our association is claiming she fell down on a wet spot inside an entry way and badly injured her back. No one saw her fall and our security patrol observed no water in the area after the fall . A check of the security cameras does not show her falling only the woman holding her back while waiting for an elevator.

Free Legal Advice

Free Legal Advice

The unlicensed practice of law is a serious charge, and can put that Board member
in harm’s way.

Property managers make money off condos’ insurance

By JULIE PATEL Sun Sentinel (copy of online article) Updated: 2:11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010 Your property management company may be making money off your condo association’s insurance policy. Some say that’s a conflict of interest because management companies also help associations pick their insurance. “Referrals should be based on good service only and [...]

The Politics of Peace

The Politics of Peace

How to address behavioral issues deal with the various personalities of the Board and maintain peace in your community.

No Dark Water

No Dark Water

Clean drinking water turns to filthy black water in only 48 hours.

Herding Cats & Managing Volunteers

Herding Cats & Managing Volunteers

Managing a group of volunteers, each with his/her own ideas, can feel like herding cats.

Character Assassination & Harassment

Character Assassination & Harassment

Our board members are being harassed by an owner with threatening behavior

Citizens Florida Rate Increase

Citizens Florida Rate Increase

Condo Multi-Peril Policies will increase by 8.1%, Wind-Only by 11.0%, HOAs & Co-Ops by 0.7 percent and 11.3% respectively.