The 9 Most Pressing Issues for Condo/HOA Boards in the New Year
Thursday, December 12, 2019 — This Thursday!
2-3 p.m. Eastern
An Exclusive HOAleader.com Webinar
With Practical Tips for Condo and HOA Boards
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The new year will be upon us before we know it, and with it will come issues you may not have even anticipated. Fear not! We've got you covered!
Join us for a must-attend webinar on December 12 where you'll hear from three community association experts with decades of experience in advising associations and tracking trends that will affect boards like yours.
You'll discover the steps you should take now to prepare for a successful 2020. You'll also hear the trends our experts are tracking for their clients—including what you need to know to ensure you're ahead of them, rather than reacting to them after a challenge arises.
Join us and learn about these critical trends from our experts:
- Election law changes—California just changed the law on how associations must conduct elections, and they’re, frankly, a mess. But it’s not the only state beefing up laws on how elections are run.
- The challenges with electronic voting—On top of election law changes that have nothing to do with electronic voting, more states are now permitting e-voting—making elections even more complicated than before. One of our experts says with e-voting, the devil is in the details, so few associations are trying it. You’ll hear the various ways associations can conduct evoting—online
and by renting electronic voting machines from a vendor (associations actually do this), for instance—and common requirements associations must meet to do it properly.
- The ever-more-important need to be proactive—The best-run communities will be increasingly proactive in providing ways for owners to become more involved, in providing (certain, but not all) records, adjusting quorums, and using media.
- Common area maintenance failures—One of our experts says she’s seeing too many condo associations failing to proactively maintain common area and exclusive use common areas, and the risk could literally lead to life-and-death situations. Legislators have noticed and are considering measures to force condos not to defer maintenance.
- Becoming better educated on insurance coverage—Creating effective decision trees and educating owners while maximizing insurance coverage and minimizing your owners' risks to your deductibles are just a few of the ways the wisest boards will make better decisions about insurance coverage
- How HOAs are getting drawn (against their will) into the workforce housing shortage—The lack of housing for low-wage workers prompted lawmakers in California to force HOAs to permit garage conversions and the addition of accessory dwelling units on owners’ property. Will this stand? Will it spread?
- Why enforcement fairness is taking center stage in courts and legislatures—Illinois is just one state that's taken on rules enforcement and forced associations to create, and follow, more fair and reasonable processes.
- The lack of attention community associations are paying to cybersecurity—Many associations have lots of confidential data on their homeowners but aren’t taking enough proactive steps to protect that information. One of our experts is advising her clients about why that must change.
- The shift to virtual meetings—Gotomeetings. Zoom. Plain old phones—the options for virtual meetings are broad, but again, the rules are complicated. In some states, board members or owners can’t vote if they participate virtually. We’ll explain the trend, state laws that are tricky to follow, and some the workarounds for how to meet virtually successfully.
In just 60 minutes, you'll gain practical, valuable tools you can use right away to make your rules more enforceable and your violation process more fair. Register now for this informative event for community
association board members.
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| Todd J. Billy is an attorney at The Community Association Lawyers in St.
Louis, where he provides to clients general consultation, governance and enforcement counsel, guidance on FHA condominium project approval, in addition to providing transaction and litigation expertise. Billy is licensed in Missouri and Illinois and has more than 1,000 active condo and HOA clients. He is a Community Association Institute member and a College of Community Association Lawyers fellow. He has served on the Heartland Chapter's board of directors and is currently the treasurer of
CAI's Missouri Legislative Action Committee.
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| Debra A. Warren, PCAM, CCAM, CMCA, is vice president of development at Associa®. She has more than 25 years of experience in community association management and was founder and principal of a successful consulting practice after 15 years as president and CEO of a management firm in Northern California, which she sold in 2005. Warren has also been actively involved in the education of community management professionals and volunteer board members across the
country. She has 20 years of experience as an educator and in 2010 was named by the Community Associations Institute as educator of the year.
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| Elizabeth White is counsel at the law firm of Sands Anderson PC in Williamsburg, Va., where she leads the firm's national community association industry team. With more than 32 years of practicing community association law, White is a frequent speaker at CAI events on topics relating to community association law and is a regular contributor to such publications as www.HOAleader.com. She teaches a class on community association law at William and Mary Law School,
which is the only one of its kind in Virginia and one of only a handful nationwide. White has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America®.
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time.
Plus, for one low price, you can get as many people on your condo or HOA board to participate as you can fit around a speakerphone and a computer screen.
And now, with our special group membership offer, your entire board can attend—even from different locations. This offer requires an HOAleader.com Group Membership. When any group member orders, we will set up access for the entire group. Up to 10 users can attend for one low price. It's another incredible deal as part of HOAleader.com Group
Membership.
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