Category: Board Operations

Board Operations Protecting Your  Reserves
2025 June Protecting Your Reserves

In our current environment of steeply rising costs, it’s more important than ever to safeguard your reserves to ensure that your association has sufficient funds available for immediate and future capital projects.  Unfortunately, many ass…

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2025 June Making the Most of Your Annual Meeting

Every co-op, condo, and HOA resident has a stake in what happens in their community. Each decision—from financial oversight to building improvements—impacts everyone collectively. That’s why holding and attending annual board meetings is so…

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2025 April How To Win a Board Election

It may seem counterintuitive, but the person who wins a seat on their co-op or condo board is often not simply the most popular person to throw their hat into the ring. Before the votes are cast at the annual meeting, candidates eyeing boar…

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Board Operations Failure to Communicate
2025 April Failure to Communicate

It takes many vital components working in unison to enable a residential multifamily building to function effectively: a management team to help things run smoothly, committed, engaged board members who volunteer their time, and residents w…

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Board Operations The CooperatorEvents Spring Expo
The CooperatorEvents Spring Expo

For over 20 years now, co-op and condo board members, managers, and the professionals they depend on to keep their buildings running safely and smoothly have made the annual pilgrimage to the CooperatorEvents Expo—and this past March 4 was …

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2025 March When Boards Go Bad

A condominium, cooperative, or homeowners’ association elects its board for a specific purpose: to manage the community’s day-to-day business, oversee special projects, and draft and uphold the rules and regulations that keep life orderly a…

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2025 February Evicting an Owner or Shareholder

What’s a board to do when a shareholder or unit owner consistently fails to hold up their end of the agreements—both spoken and unspoken—that underpin successful multifamily living, either through nonpayment of fees, or objectionable behavi…

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2024 December The President’s Role

What is the role of a board president in a shared-interest community? Is he or she more like a CEO, an administrative custodian, or a figurehead? Depending on the community and the needs and expectations of its members, the answer could be …

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