Encouraging residents to be vocal about their thoughts can help make your HOA community a better place. This blog post answers what your HOA board can do to get more input from homeowners. 

Board meetings are also crucial to the governance of your community association. Effectively managing an association will ensure it functions well. Learn how reading this article.

The function of the CC&Rs or the property management company's role in implementing them can be confusing. Therefore, it’s always best to work with your management company to develop guidelines that work best for your community.

In this two-part guide, we'll explore practical tips on how to start an HOA social committee and the social committee roles it occupies. Social committee guidelines also call for a social chairperson, so next week, we will focus on social chair responsibilities.

It's essential to remember that there's a proper way to go about this. The secretary should record HOA meeting minutes for any meeting the HOA board holds. Here, we discuss that and provide you with a helpful HOA meeting minutes template.

The board regularly convenes meetings in homeowners associations to discuss agenda items and vote. It is imperative to take HOA board meeting minutes to record what transpires at these meetings. But what is the process for doing so?

One may mistake highly vocal residents as nitpickers. Some nitpickers are anxious and worrisome, and they may nitpick because of their need to feel in control. Fortunately, community associations have several less litigious options before pursuing a cease-and-desist letter or a lawsuit.

A homeowners association (HOA) is no better than the board of directors that leads it. The association must develop excellent and willing volunteers for it to be successful. Outstanding board members understand that their position is of service rather than control. They serve their neighbors; they don’t supervise them. A service-forward attitude results in a defenseless perspective, so new ideas and opinions are welcomed and not perceived as insults or threats.

Board Meetings are the backbone of the homeowners association (HOA). From budget concerns to hot topics or issues in the community, board members must run a successful meeting to reach the HOA's goals.

One of the most complex decisions a homeowners' association (HOA) board of directors will have to make is hiring the right people for their management company. When your board writes and distributes a request for proposal (RFP), they're simplifying the process. Read on to learn about RFPs, why they're important, how to draft one, and more.

To be a genuinely successful HOA, you can't simply focus all your efforts on attracting new homeowners. Your board must also work hard to keep new and existing members. All methods from last week's post apply, but here are a few additional tips for retaining homeowners.

Homeowners associations rely on people to make decisions and perform organizational functions. For constitutional matters, a vote comes from all HOA members. For day-to-day affairs, an association acts through its board of directors and officers.

Did you know that you don't have to be interested or involved in a specific cause to serve on a nonprofit board of directors? The fact is that there are lots of nonprofits right in your community that has vacancies on their boards of directors. A great deal of the time, they don't even require prior experience. Read on to learn more!

Under Florida law, an association attempting to enforce a covenant or restriction against one homeowner while allowing another homeowner to violate the same regulation without consequences constitutes selective enforcement. Unfortunately, this is a common problem for association boards.

Governing homeowners associations include documents, among which are the bylaws and the CC&Rs. However, there will come a time when you will need to amend those documents. Continue reading to learn how to change HOA bylaws and CC&Rs.

Conducting effective board meetings plays an essential role in the Board of Directors' ability to govern their community successfully. However, it takes a great deal of time and effort for a board meeting to run in a timely and productive manner.