HOAleader.com - Tip of the Week - February 22, 2013
Published: Fri, 02/22/13
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HOA Presidents' Club: Time to Join or Start One?
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In this week's tip, we build on one Florida HOA
president's bright idea: Bringing other HOA presidents
together to share ideas. That organization, the Oviedo
HOA Presidents Association, now represents about 40
communities and has monthly meetings featuring a sponsor,
a speaker, and updates from local politicians, first
responders, and others.
Presidents' clubs aren't that common-yet. "I haven't
seen a presidents' club," reports Shanne Ho, senior
director of property management at Seabreeze Management
Co. in Aliso Viejo, Calif., which oversees about 30
associations. "I have seen where you have a master
association with subassociations who've tried to join
forces on their maintenance contracts to gain a level
of cost efficiency. That's worked and not worked because
sometimes people have different expectations when it
comes to the appropriate level of service. Still, I
think there's something advantageous about a presidents'
club. When it becomes collaborative, could it be done
in good spirit? Sure."
"I love that idea of calling it a president's club
and inviting them to a breakfast meeting," agrees
Lori Burger, CPM, CCAM, CAM, senior vice president
and director of Eugene Burger Management Corp., a
Rohnert Park, Calif.-based company that manages about
20,000 condo and HOA units; Burger is also the 2013
secretary/treasurer of the Institute of Real Estate
Management, a professional organization of property
managers. "That's an opportunity we don't as a company
take advantage of, but it's a great way to have better
networking among our boards."
They're popping up in Florida. "I've not only heard
of the idea of a local association presidents' club,
I've attended some meetings, and I've even spoken at
some," says Matthew Zifrony, who advises homeowners
and condo associations at Tripp Scott, a Ft. Lauderdale
law firm, and who's also served as the president of a
3,000-home association. "Where I live in Westin, Fla.,
there's a president's club where all association
presidents are invited, and we meet either quarterly
or every six months. We discuss issues affecting our
communities to see if we can pool resources."
Zifrony says sometimes management companies organize
such groups. "I've seen when management companies are
trying to make inroads in an area, they'll host
presidents' meetings," he explains. "It'll be under
the auspices of, 'We want to get everybody together
to help you out,' but they'll also have their
promotional material displayed. That way their name
gets out, and if presidents are unhappy with their
manager, they have a resource to turn to."
You can walk away with concrete benefits by organizing
or joining a local HOA president's club.
Learn more in our new article:
http://www.hoaleader.com/members/820.cfm
Best regards,
Matt Humphrey
President
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