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2025

Q2 - 2025

June

June

19 June ☀️ ▶️ Knowledge Game + | 💯Be the Change | Lawsuits! Governance Matters | 📜 The Ombuds are Coming!

May

May

29 May 🦋 🐈 Celebrating Pets | 🐦‍🔥Burnout | ⚛️ Going Nuclear | 🔹Small Homes, Big Price | 📜 Legislative Updates

15 May 🐝 📖 Open Meetings | 🆕 Old is New Again | 🌳 Environmental Impacts | ☂️Insurance | Governance Matters

01 May 🌿 ⌛Valuing Time | 🤨 Foreclosure Reversed | 📉 Bankruptcy | Governance Matters | 📜 Legislation

April

April

17 Apr 📫 🤚 Alternative Leadership Model | 🎧 The Podcast | 🏠 Housing Like WWII | 💰Tariffs | Governance Matters

03 Apr 💩 👎 Owners Prefer No HOA | 💩 Stinky Situation | 🤑Fraud | 🌳Tree Trouble | Governance Matters

2025

Q1 - 2025

March

March

20 Mar ⚖️ So Much Legislation! | 🤑 Crypto | 🎓 Public Education | 🏘️ Housing Affordability | Governance Matters

06 Mar 💐 🥂 CTA is MOOT! | ☀️ Florida's Condotastrophe | 🔢 Numbers! | 🏠 Market | Governance Matters

February

February

20 Feb 🎢 🎢 CTA is BACK! | 🚨 Covenant Crisis | 🏢 Deconversions | 🏠 WOO-KAI-U-WHAT? | Governance Matters

06 Feb 🧊 👎 Industry Shenanigans | 🦖 History of the Present | 🤮 (Lack of) Enforcement | 🏠 Housing Affordability

January

January

23 Jan 🥶 🗺️ Statute Concepts Matrix | 🏙 Condo Crisis | 🔥Insurance Disaster | 💵 Fiscal Policy | Governance Matters

09 Jan 🤧 💡Eisenhower Matrix | ⚡Power's Out | 🧠AI Drain | 📉 Housing Affordability | 🔥$50B Fire | Gov. Matters

2024

Q4 - 2024

December

December

26 Dec ☃️ 🏘️🏚️🏙️ CIC Housing | 😫 THE NAUGHTY LIST | 👎HOAs + Districts | 🏡 Housing Market | 💰Money Matters

12 Dec. ❄️ 📝 Survey Says | 💰Surplus Funds | 📖 Academia | 🥦 Assessments | 🏥 Insurance | Governance Matters

November

November

28 Nov. 🦃 🦃 Thanksgiving! | 📒 Reserve Study Failure | 🦵 Kickbacks | 🪙 Stubborn Inflation | Governance Matters

14 Nov. 🍁 💡 Power | 🛠️What's the Remedy? | 📏 Rules | 🌍 🥵 Global Warming | 💵 Investing | Governance Matters

October

October

31 Oct. 🎃 🎃 HALLOWEEN PHOBYAS! | ❌ CTA Injunction Denied | ❓ Pressing Questions | 💥 Disaster | Governance Matters

17 Oct. ℹ️ 🤝 Don't Feel Trapped | 🔊 Full Funding Podcast | 😨 Fear-Mongering | 🏥 Insurance | Governance Matters

03 Oct. 🥳🎉 🥳 100th Issue Celebration | 💰 $1.5M Embezzlement | ☔Rain Rain Go Away! | Governance Matters

2024

Q3 - 2024

September

September

19 Sep. 🗺️ 🗺️ CAI Lobbying Map | 😊 Satisfaction | ❓Survey Says | 🏠 Unaffordable Housing | Governance Matters

05 Sep. 🌡️ 🌡️ Ethical Lapse | 🩸 Fines for Water Distribution | 🌡️ Risk Temperature | 🐂 Bullies | Governance Matters

August

August

22 August 🚨 💻 Newsletter DB | ⬆️Assessments Going UP! | 🤡 Hall of Shame | 🚨 Insurance Emergency | Litigation

09 August 🎓 🎓 Mis-Education II & III | 🍋 Lemonade Police | 🍄 Mold | ❌ Canceled Termination | Governance Matters

July

July

18 July 🎓 🎓 Assumptions | 📝 Contracting | 🙋 Q&A | 💸 Theft (Again) | 🏥 Insurance | Governance Matters

04 July 🎆 🎗️ Remembering Surfside | 📋Insurance Survey | 🏠 Origins | ⚡Energy | 🏥 Insurance | Governance Matters

2024

Q2 - 2024

June

June

20 June 🧮 🧮Condo & Home Sales | ✉️Unhinged Letter | ⛵Offshoring | 🏘️ Housing Troubles | Governance Matters

06 June 🔢 🔢 Satisfaction Part Deux | 💸Felony Theft | 🚒 Fire |⚡Energy | 😦UNaffordability | Governance Matters

May

May

23 May 💥 💰 Reserve Funding Strategies | 🏆Advice | 🧠 Group Decisions| 💥 Insurance | Governance Matters

09 May 🤞 ⚒️ Naught Without Labor | 🎯Directors & Officers | 👊Violence | 🤑 Grand Theft | Governance Matters

April

April

25 Apr 🌿 ❎ Satisfaction Survey | 💸 Reserve Expenses | 🗣️Plain Language | ☠️ Grim Reaper | Governance Matters

2024

Q1 - 2024

March

March

28 Mar ☔ 🕹️Condo CURE | 🔆Bright Lines |💪Increasing Efficiency | ☔Insurance Magic | Governance Matters

14 Mar ⚙️ 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🗣️Meetings | 🔋The Board's In Charge |⚙️Technical Debt | 🏘️Affordability | Governance Matters

February

February

29 Feb 📝 📝Board Meetings Survey | ❎Proxies |🤞Board Sustainability | 🏘️Affordability | Governance Matters

15 Feb 💝 💝 Feeling the Love | 💩 Dirty Deeds | 💥🛠 Repair Despair | Developer Abandonment | Governance Matters

01 Feb ⚖ 🗓️ Events | 🤝Homeowners Care | ‼️Foreclosure Mistake | Mediation | Governance Matters & Fair Housing

January

January

18 Jan ❆ ❆ Story-Telling | Reform Required |💰Fed Funds> Attorneys' Fees | 99% Insurance Hike | Governance Matters

04 Jan 🎉 🎉 New Year! | Legislation & Events | Survey | Reasonable?! | Housing Affordability | Governance Matters

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2023

Q4 - 2023

December

December

21 Dec ⛄ ❗ NAUGHTY List | Events | 2023 Recap | Free Education! | 🥊 Battling the Industry | Governance Matters

11 Dec 🕚 ⓵ One Statute | Events | 🔴 Red Lights | Origins & Concerns | Property Values | "Fees" | Governance Matters

November

November

23 Nov 🦃 🦃 Gobble Gobble! | Final Survey Results | Trials & Tribulations: IV | Relative Returns | Governance Matters

09 Nov 🎙 📺 CNBC Interview | 👎 Trials & Tribulations: III | 🗣 Dispute Resolution (ADR) | Governance Matters

October

October

26 Oct 🍅 🎃 Happy Halloween! | Trials & Tribulations: II | 🏥 Insurance | 🧱 Required Reserves | 🧐 Municode Matters

12 Oct 📆 📅 Events! | 🖋 Legislative Priorities | 🏘️ Housing Affordability | 👎 Declarant Control | The Chevron Doctrine

2023

Q3 - 2023

September

September

28 Sep 💲 💲Terrible Service is Expen$ive | No-Win Situation | Insurance Wake-Up Call | Massive Costs of Poor Decisions

14 Sep 🛈 📋 CAI Report Card | 📊 Association Statistics | ⚠️ A 7% World | What's a Meeting? | Prevailing: In Court and Out

August

August

31 Aug ☄ Attorneys' Fees | 🩹 Goodbye Insurance | New Lows: Housing Affordability | Radon | Swinging Colorblind

17 Aug 💣 💣 Embezzlement | Foreclosure | Eviction | Evacuation | Winging It | Bankruptcy | Edibles and so much more!

03 Aug 👀 👀 Naked Nuisance? | 🦄 Association Myths! | 🔢 Big Numbers | Enforcement | Sun + Heat + Accommodations

July

July

20 Jul 🚀 💹 So Much Fraud | 🔌 Plug In | 📉 Taming Inflation | Enforcement + Pitfalls of Poor Governance

06 Jul 🎆 🏢 Infrastructure Nightmare | 🌳 Save Fred | ✅ Budget Checklist | Mismanagement | Governance

2023

Q2 - 2023

June

June

22 Jun 🚭 🛖 Your Reserve Study Needs HELP | ⚐ Get HELP! | ⎅ Statute Matrix | 🚭 Nuisances Revisited | CTA

08 Jun ♳ Board Conflict | 🖋 Certainty in your Community? | 🏴‍☠️ Pervasive Plastic | Cut the Jargon!

May

May

25 May ✋ ✋ Frequent Mistakes & Lessons Learned | 🏡 Everything Housing | 💵 Debt Default?! | Covenants Limited

11 May 🏆 🏆 10 Habits of Great Homeowners | 🌳 Zero is EXPEN$IVE | Governance in Moderation +++

April

April

27 Apr 🔨 🔨 Ethics | Reserve Judgment | 🌳 Environment | 🏘️ Housing | 💵 Finance | Governance

13 Apr 🗣 🗣 John Oliver on HOAs | 🖊 Brutal Report | 🐷 Municipal $upport | 💵 Money Stuff | Governance

March

March

30 Mar 👾 👾 Enforcement | 🐶 Pets | 🏡 Housing | 💡 Energy | Finance | Governance & Legislation

16 Mar 🏦 🏦 Bank Failures | 🏚️ Deferred Governance | ❗ Housing Affordability | 💸 Monetary Policy

02 Mar ⚖ 🏡 Forced Selling | 💵 Keep Money OUT of the Bank | 👁 Forced Nudity | Governance Matters

February

February

16 Feb 🏡 Fraud | 40yr Pain $$$ | 🏡 Housing | Dollar$ & $ense 💵 | Governance Matters & Legislation

02 Feb 💸 Architectural Discretion | 🏘️ Housing | Dollar$ & $ense 💵 | Legislation | Governance Matters

January

January

19 Jan ⚖ Contempt for Service | 🏡 Housing | Dollar$ & $ense 💵 | Governance Matters

08 Jan 🖊 Demand Freedom 🆓 | 🏡 Housing | Dollar$ & $ense 💵

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2022

December

December

31 Dec 🦄 BLOG: The Myth of Full Funding | Housing 🏡 | Dollar$ & $ense 💵

15 Dec ⛄ Giving Thanks | Housing 🏡 | Dollar$ & $ense 💵

08 Dec ☠ Survey Results | Opt-In | Masking 😷 | Excommunication ☠ | Housing 🏡 | Dollar$ & $ense 💵

01 Dec 🎁 Packages 🎁 | Housing, Housing, Housing! 🏡 | Mug Shots 🤯 | 💸 Fiscal Responsibility

November

November

10 Nov 🦃 Gobble Gobble! 🦃 | HOAs Dominate New Housing 🏘️ | Exploding Heads 🤯 | Plan for Yield 💰

03 Nov 💸 Federal and State Statute Lookup ⛯ | 💸 Monetary Policy

October

October

27 Oct 💸 Budget Season Dollar$ and $ense Requirements 💸 | The Lost Souls of Ukraine 🧨

20 Oct 🧨 Reserve Study + Reserve Funds 💸 | Inflation's Financial Frenzy 💸 | Ukraine Under Siege 🧨

13 Oct ⚖ BLOG: Know Your Business: You MUST Go Beyond 'the Basics' | $Crunch 💰 | Governance Matters

06 Oct Staff Compensation Survey Results 📝 | Carbon Monoxide 🍄 | 💸 Financial Turmoil

September

September

29 Sep Global Financial System Pressure 📉 | Governance (AGAIN!) | Survey LAST CALL 📝

22 Sep BLOG: Down to Earth... | Fed Policy 💰 | Governance Hierarchy 📖 | '22 Compensation Survey 🖊

06 Sep CIC Staff Compensation Survey 🖊 | Housing 🏡 | Fire Safety 🔥 | Monetary Policy | Nominations

August

August

25 Aug ⛯ Federal and State Statute Lookup ⛯ | $URVEY! | Updated Publications 📃 | Rates 💰 | Help ❗

18 Aug 💸 Inflation Reduction Act 💸 | Financial Education 💰 | Article of the Week 📰 | COVID-19 💉

11 Aug Fair Housing | ADA | Reserve Resources | Inflation | Governance Matters | Illicit Communication

04 Aug BLOG: What to Do: When Things go Askew | Record Inspection | 2022 Reserve Survey Results

July

July

28 July Unit Resale / Resale Certificates, Model Oath of Office, 75bps Rate Increase, Board FAIL & more

21 July Collection$, WA CIC Database, Inflation & investing updates, Governance Matters, Tea Party?!

14 July Inflation Insights: Are Your Reserve Funds Dying in the Bank?, Governance Matters: Ducks & more

07 July BLOG: Principal Guaranteed Securities: Are you Trading Convenience for Yield? & more!

June

June

30 June Looking Back: The First Half of 2022: 7 Blogs and 24 Info Bytes!, Board Compensation, VFOTW

23 June 2022 Reserve Questionnaire, CIC Volunteer Feat of the Week!, Governance Burden, Discussion

BLOG: CIC Candid Interview: Community Association Manager Insights + Governance Matters

BLOG: DOLLAR$ and $EN$E, Education & Research Survey Results, News, Discussion & more!

May

May

26 May Education & Research Survey, CRITICAL Reminder: WA State CICs, State Statute Database +++

19 May Education & Research Survey, The Ultimate Challenge: TLDR, Help Wanted and Discussion

12 May Settlement in the Surfside Collapse, Volunteering, Enforcement, Dialogue and more!

05 May What Are CICs?!?, NEW Discussion Feature!, CIC Calendar, 8 Commandments for Rules & more!

April

April

BLOG: KNOW Your Experts, They Might be YOUR NEIGHBORS, Management Toolkit & more!

21 April Model Management Contract, CIC Staffing Survey, EV Charging, HOAs Lock Out Investors +

BLOG: There's Only ONE Sandbox, CIC Staffing Survey, Resource Updates

BLOG: START Serving Your Community, Resource Updates, Governance Matters

March

March

31 March SPECIAL EDITION: CAI Silences Dissenting Voices

Model Management Contract and Exchange Highlights

Multi-Family Residential Property Security Expert Session, Decision-Making 101, Pigeons & more!

BLOG: GREAT EXPECTATIONS!: What to Expect from your Management Company and much more!

03 March Support the people of Ukraine, Volunteer Involvement Survey, Lender Requirements and more

February

February

24 February Volunteer Involvement Survey, Reserve Study Tools, Second Hand Smoke, Governance Matters++

17 February Document Management Survey, Parliamentary Procedure, Communication, Timely Financials ++

Decision-Making 101, Fair Housing, Document Management Survey, Fines and Financials

Common Interest Community Governance / Responsibility Matrix, CAI Exchange, Governance Matters

January

January

27 January A flurry of interesting CAI Exchange topics!

NEW: Example Satisfaction Survey, Portal Comparison, WSCAI Journal Articles, Survey Results

13 January NEW: Resource Pages + Surveys

2021

DEC

December

31 December

BLOG: Always Ask "WHY?": Are Empathy and Reason YOUR Stars and Stripes?

23 December 2022 Condo Questionnaire + Governance Matters: Assoc. Managers Aren't Debt Collectors!

16 December

60 Second CAI / WSCAI Survey | Survey Results

09 December Disaster Assistance Equity Act + Governance Matters

01 December Meetings, Condo Sales Data, CAI Manager Code of Ethics, Governance Matters

NOV

November

Vendor Lists, Listening to our Homeowners, Holiday Guide, Diversity Resources, 2020 Statistics

13 November

Elevator Modernization Costs

06 November

Board Meeting Survey

OCT

October

29 October

Governance Matters: Associations Need Accurate Records to Prevail in Collection Proceedings

Disclosure Requirements + Articles about Infrastructure, Reserves and Contractors

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