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		<title>Stop Using &#8220;No Name Service&#8221; for Your Community Association Bookkeeping</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With today’s ever increasing state and federal regulations, rising delinquencies and resultant cash flow issues, community associations are under ever increasing pressures to have proper financial accounting performed on their behalf.  It is time to stop using “No Name Bookkeeping Service” and a hire a bookkeeping company that specializes in servicing community associations. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fidelity Bonds for Community Associations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not aware of any law that requires a community association to have Fidelity Bond coverage, but in the normal course of business it is a prudent form of protection.  Fidelity Bond coverage provides protection for loss of money (i.e., reserves or operating expenses, additional securities and property) that would arise from fraudulent or dishonest acts of those who would be defined as persons handling the association’s money.]]></description>
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		<title>Use Caution When Posting Minutes on a Community Association Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As community association websites become the norm for the industry, Boards of Directors and management need to gain guidance from the association attorney on how meeting minutes should be written and handled in order not to cause any potential legal problems for the association.]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Community Association Have a “Drive By” Property Manager?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a “drive by” property manager working for your Community Association?  You know, the one that has the Board of Directors, the unit owners, staff and the service personnel frustrated and left to wondering what is going on?  This type of property manager does not have the time to properly devote to your community as they always seem to be in a rush and are usually disorganized too.]]></description>
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		<title>14 Common Complaints about Property Managers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though most property managers are professional, hardworking, and sincere in their duties and responsibilities, some are not, and this small percentage of managers can give the property management business a bad name.  Below are some of the most common complaints about property managers.  I am sure some of you can come up with additional complaints as well.   ]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Community Associations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about “15 Common Problems with HOA’s” and to counterbalance that assessment, I will detail what is good about community association living, based on a survey conducted by Zogby International of community association residents.  Overall, a majority (70%) of the respondents of this survey told pollsters that they are satisfied with their homeowners associations, condominium communities and cooperatives.]]></description>
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		<title>8 Ways That You Can Be the Best Board Member You Can Be</title>
		<link>http://www.apmnews.org/being-a-great-board-member-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apmnews.org/being-a-great-board-member-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just been fired from a new client who was totally uncooperative with our staff, uninterested in setting things up properly between the 2 entities and basically unorganized, in disarray and their Board members existing without any common goals, our staff recently collaborated on the following, in order to help other community associations to avoid enduring what we just had to….]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Management Company Have a Conflict of Interest?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apmnews.org/?p=566</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are often asked if we have or own subsidiaries that will provide landscape, janitorial, pool, irrigation and tree trimming services to prospective clients. Though it sounds like a logical step to have all of those services under the same property management umbrella, I will explain why this may be unwise for an association to consider.  ]]></description>
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		<title>10 Tools a Community Association Can Use to Communicate to Their Owners</title>
		<link>http://www.apmnews.org/tools-to-communicate-keep-owners-happy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apmnews.org/tools-to-communicate-keep-owners-happy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apmnews.org/?p=552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A common problem associated with community association living is poor or inconsistent communications with their members and residents.  Lack of communication leads to misunderstandings as any official business is filtered, is left for interpretation and is usually wrong as it is spread throughout the community.  The following are some ideas for effective communications from the Board of Directors and management to the owners and residents:]]></description>
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		<title>The Blame Game – Let’s Blame the Property Management Company!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing worse in the management business than to negotiate in good faith, a management contract with a new association, only to have them not do what they had agreed to and blame the management company for their failures!  It is very difficult to properly manage a community association when your staff is not provided the support, cooperation and especially the time required to do a good job from the association. ]]></description>
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