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Q&A Q&A: Breaking a Bad Board
2025 Summer Q&A: Breaking a Bad Board

Q. I was a member of our three-person association condo board for approximately one year. I resigned after I realized the other two people were having secret meetings and making decisions without my input, and bringing their 2-to-1 vote t…

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2025 Summer Yes, Associations Pay Federal Income Tax

With many associations currently earning significant interest income on their reserve accounts, it may come as a surprise that associations have to pay federal income taxes on that income. Even more surprising is that the applicable tax rat…

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2025 Summer Families, Kids & Quality of Life

Managing or administering a multifamily community like a condo, HOA, or co-op building is a lesson in balancing diverse, sometimes conflicting interests and priorities for the collective good. In buildings and associations where residents l…

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2025 Summer Landmark Co-ops & Condos

If you picture a specific American city in your head, what do you see? Its buildings, most likely. Cities come to be known and represented by their iconic buildings, one part often standing in for the whole: think the Empire State or Chrysl…

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2025 Summer Surveillance & Security

Back in the spring of 2017, a Boston couple was brutally murdered in their penthouse apartment in a high-end condominium building. The perpetrator was a former employee of a company that supplied concierge services to the condo, and so knew…

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2025 Summer The Insurance Landscape

Over the past few years, nearly all property owners, including shared interest communities, have seen sharp increases in their insurance premiums. That costs have spiraled and coverage gotten harder to obtain is obvious; the questions are, …

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2025 Summer 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 Summer Continuing Education for Managers

There’s no such thing as too much education—and that’s especially true in the realm of multifamily property management. Keeping one’s skills sharp and knowledge base both broad and current is a must for all management professionals, regardl…

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2025 Summer The Collections Process

Positive cash flow is the lifeblood of any multifamily residential community, be it a rental building, co-op, condo, or HOA. However, because the latter three are nonprofit entities, maintaining consistent cash flow is even more critical to…

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