In this week's tip, we pull our jaws up off the floor long enough to ask: Who has authority to purchase supplies for your condo and HOA, and how much can they spend?
That question arises after we did a double take when we saw a question posted online mentioning that a board member was expensing more than $5,000 for mileage to free community events, computers, printers, and more.
Click on the arrow below to hear a short clip in which two of HOAleader.com's experts—Robert E. Ducharme, founder of Ducharme Law in Stratham, N.H., who specializes in representing community associations, and Alex Noland, CCAL, founder of Noland Law PC in San Francisco, which represents 200-plus community associations throughout
California—discuss how often they see this problem in their communities and what causes it.
