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Looking for Answers
By: Nena Groskind
April 2013
Technology, climate change, demographic trends, and financial pressures will create an array of new challenges for community associations in the future and intensify existing ones.
Association board members will become savvier and condominium owners will become more diverse and more demanding.
Association governance will become more complicated and operating costs will rise. Liability risks will grow. Competitive pressures and the evolving needs of community associations will force association managers to rethink and perhaps repackage the services they offer.
Looking for Answers: Changes, Challenges, Conundrums and Concerns- What the Future Holds for Community Associations
By: Nena Groskind
April 2013
Technology, climate change, demographic trends, and financial pressures will create an array of new challenges for community associations in the future and intensify existing ones.
Association board members will become savvier and condominium owners will become more diverse and more demanding.
Association governance will become more complicated and operating costs will rise.
Liability risks will grow.
Competitive pressures and the evolving needs of community associations will force association managers to rethink and perhaps repackage the services they offer.
Why Do Roofs Fail?
By: Nena Groskind
March 2013
Why do roofs fail? This isn’t an academic question. It is, unfortunately, an all too common one, asked too often by far too many community associations.
This is not to suggest that roof failures – defined as roofs that have to be replaced long before the end of their projected life – are epidemic. But they are almost always avoidable, and usually the result of poor workmanship.
That was not always the case, according to Ralph Noblin, PE, principal in Noblin & Associates, a Massachusetts consulting engineering firm, who notes that 30 years ago, at least half the serious roofing problems resulted from inferior materials. Roofing materials have improved dramatically since then, Noblin says; the quality of the workmanship, however, has not.
Before Buying Insurance Make Sure You've Identified all Your Risks
By: Nena Groskind
February 2013
New parents will tell you that the world looks very different when a baby arrives. A once-comfortable home becomes a veritable house of horrors, filled with sharp edges that can slash, heavy objects that can crush, cords that can strangle, and doors that can batter and pinch. Furniture, household appliances, stairways and trinkets become dangerous and potentially lethal hazards; risks lurk around every corner and inside every room.
Board members may have a similar feeling when they stroll through the communities they are responsible for insuring. Those lovely, luscious trees could fall on buildings; sidewalks could become slippery; roofs could leak or collapse; pipes could burst; and let’s not even think about the swimming pool!
The Gift of Giving
By: Nena Groskind
January 2013
Charity may begin at home, but it continues, creatively and expansively, in the offices of many condominium industry executives, reflecting favorably on the companies and the industry, while helping the wide range of local and national causes they support.
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