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Category: Association Operations

Landscaping Row of modern brick town houses along a tree lined sidewalk in a residential district on a sunny spring day. Chicago, IL, USA.
2025 Expo Boosting Curb Appeal on a Budget

“You only get one chance to make a great first impression,” goes the old adage.  That’s the essence of curb appeal. When someone arrives at your property, they can be pleasantly surprised, or disappointed. Much of that reaction will depend …

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2025 Expo Working With Designers

Maintaining your community’s public spaces is critical to the image your community puts forward to residents, visitors and potential buyers. Frequent updating and polishing of common areas—particularly high-visibility, high-traffic areas li…

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2025 Spring Sprucing Up for Spring

As the days get longer, warmer, and more full of outdoor activity, multifamily boards and property managers must consider a whole new list of maintenance and preparation tasks to ready their buildings for the approaching summer. It’s finall…

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Energy Conservation A person is cleaning a window with a squeegee. The window is covered in streaks and the person is using a blue and white squeegee to clean it
2025 Spring Clear Benefits to Clean Windows

Windows give us the ability to enjoy pleasant views, provide natural light, insulation, and ventilation, and add to a building’s overall aesthetic. When regularly cleaned and properly maintained, they improve energy efficiency, easing the b…

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2025 Spring Smarter, Greener Landscaping

Any community looking to create and/or maintain a landscaped area these days ought to consider integrating smarter, greener practices and products to maximize environmental benefits, minimize overuse of resources, and sustainably provide be…

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Winter 2025 Managing Diverse Communities

The term ‘diversity’ encompasses an expansive range of demographics within a population, from ethnicity, age, gender and orientation, ability, religion, and socioeconomic status to culture, language, and personal lived experience. These fac…

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Winter 2025 Clear Communication

When it comes to property management, both traditional and more tech-savvy communication approaches, from personal interactions to digital portals, can help a building team operate successfully. A carefully considered full-spectrum approach…

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Management Stepping Up Your Building’s Data Security
2024 Fall/Expo Stepping Up Your Building’s Data Security

A decade ago, I was elected onto the board of a condo of a fairly young building that was plagued with assessments, lawsuits, and other issues. A previous board member—happy to pass on the troubled torch—came over to hand me a binder as pa…

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2024 Fall/Expo Money Mindfulness

It’s an all-too-common habit among many condo and HOA board members: assuming that their treasurer or property manager is keeping a close eye on their community’s financial information, they don’t bother familiarizing themselves with their …

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