Q4 - 2024

November

• 🦃 Thanksgiving! | 👎Reserve Study Failure | 🦵Kickbacks | 🪙Stubborn Inflation | ⚖ Governance Matters

• 💪 Power | 🛠️What's the Remedy? | 📏 Rules | 🌍🥵 Global Warming  |💵 Investing | ⚖ Governance Matters

October

• 🎃 Halloween Frights! | ❌ CTA Injunction Denied | ⁉️ Pressing Questions |💥Disaster | ⚖ Governance Matters

• 🪤 Don't Feel Trapped | 🔊 Full Funding Podcast | 😨Fear-Mongering |🌂Insurance | ⚖ Governance Matters

• 🥳🎉100th Issue Celebration | 💰$1.5M Embezzlement | ☔Rain Rain Go Away! | ⚖ Governance Matters

Q3

September

• 🗺️ CAI Lobbying Map | 😖 Satisfaction |❓Survey Says | 🏠 Unaffordable Housing | ⚖ Governance Matters

• 😂 Ethical Lapse | 🤑 Fines for Water Distribution | 🌡️Risk Temperature | 👊 Bullies | ⚖ Governance Matters

August

• 💻 Newsletter DB | ⬆️Assessments Going UP!  | 😦 Hall of Shame | 🚨Insurance Emergency | ⚖ Litigation

• 🎓 Mis-Education II & III |🍋Lemonade Police | ☠️ Mold | ❌ Canceled Termination | ⚖ Governance Matters

July

• 🎓❗Assumptions |📝 Contracting | 🙋‍♂️Q&A | 💸Theft (Again) | ☔ Insurance | ⚖ Governance Matters

• 🎗️ Remembering Surfside |📋Insurance Survey | 🏠 Origins |⚡Energy | ☔ Insurance | ⚖ Governance Matters

Q2

June

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

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

May

• 💰 Reserve Funding Strategies | 🏆Advice | 🧠 Group Decisions| 💥 Insurance | ⚖ Governance Matters

• ⚒️ Naught Without Labor | 🎯Directors & Officers | 👊Violence | 🤑 Grand Theft | ⚖ Governance Matters

April

• ❎ Satisfaction Survey | 💸 Reserve Expenses | 🗣️Plain Language | ☠️ Grim Reaper | ⚖ Governance Matters

Q1

March

• 🕹️Condo CURE | 🔆Bright Lines |💪Increasing Efficiency | ☔Insurance Magic | ⚖ Governance Matters

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

February

• 📝Board Meetings Survey | ❎Proxies |🤞Board Sustainability | 🏘️Affordability | ⚖ Governance Matters

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

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

January

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

• 🎉 New Year! | Legislation & Events | Survey | Reasonable?! | Housing Affordability | ⚖ Governance Matters

2023

December

• ❗NAUGHTY List | Events | 2023 Recap | Free Education! | 🥊 Battling the Industry | ⚖ Governance Matters

• ⓵ One Statute | Events | 🔴 Red Lights | Origins & Concerns | Property Values | "Fees" | ⚖ Governance Matters

November

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

• 🎙CNBC Interview | 👎 Trials & Tribulations: III | 🗣 Dispute Resolution (ADR) | ⚖ Governance Matters

October

• 🍅 Happy Halloween! | 🛞 Trials & Tribulations: II | ☔ Insurance | 💰 Required Reserves | 😬 Municode Matters

• 📆 Events!  |  🖉 Legislative Priorities | 🎢 Housing Affordability | 👎 Declarant Control | 🗎 The Chevron Doctrine 

SEPTEMBER

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

•  🂿 CAI Report Card | 🧮 Association Statistics | ⏫ A 7% World | What's a Meeting? | 🪟 Prevailing: In Court and Out

AUGUST

• 💸 Attorneys' Fees | ☄ Goodbye Insurance | New Lows: Housing Affordability | Radon | 💔 Swinging Colorblind

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

• 👀 Naked Nuisance? |🦄 Association Myths! | ❿ Big Numbers |⛑ Enforcement  | ⚖ Sun + Heat + Accommodations

JULY

• 🚀 So Much Fraud |🔌Plug In | 📉 Taming Inflation | ⚖ Enforcement + Pitfalls of Poor Governance

• 🏢 Infrastructure Nightmare | 🐢 Save Fred | ✅ Budget Checklist | 🢃 Mismanagement | ⚖ Governance

JUNE

• 🙈 Your Reserve Study Needs HELP | ⚐ Get HELP! | ⎅ Statute Matrix |🚭 Nuisances Revisited | ⚖ CTA 

• 🔊 Board Conflict | 🖊 Certainty in your Community? | ♳  Pervasive Plastic | ⚖ Cut the Jargon!

MAY

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

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

APRIL

• 🔨 Ethics | Reserve Judgment |🌳  Environment |🏡 Housing |💵 Finance | ⚖ Governance

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

MARCH

• 👾Enforcement | 😻 Pets |🏡Housing | 💡Energy |💵 Finance | ⚖ Governance & Legislation 

• 🏦Bank Failures |  ⚖ Deferred Governance | 🏡Housing Affordability |❗Monetary Policy

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

FEBRUARY

• Fraud | 40yr Pain $$$  | Housing 🏡 | Dollar$ & $ense 💵 | Governance Matters & Legislation  ⚖

• Architectural Discretion | Housing 🏡 | Dollar$ & $ense 💵 | Legislation | Governance Matters  ⚖

JANUARY

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

• Demand Freedom 🆓 | Housing 🏡 | Dollar$ & $ense 💵

2022

DECEMBER

• BLOG: The Myth of Full Funding | Housing 🏡 | Dollar$ & $ense 💵

• Giving Thanks | Housing 🏡 | Dollar$ & $ense 💵

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

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

NOVEMBER

• Gobble Gobble!🦃 | HOAs Dominate New Housing💻 | Exploding Heads 🤯 | Plan for Yield 💰

• Federal and State Statute Lookup ⛯ | Monetary Policy💸

OCTOBER

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

• Reserve Study + Reserve Funds 🖩| Inflation's Financial Frenzy 💰 | Ukraine Under Siege 🧨 

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

• Staff Compensation Survey Results 🖊 | Carbon Monoxide 🚒🚨  | Financial Turmoil 💰

SEPTEMBER

• Global Financial System Pressure 🦈| Governance (AGAIN!) 📖 | $urvey LAST CALL 🖊 

• BLOG: Down to Earth... | Fed Policy 💰| Governance Hierarchy 📖 | '22 Compensation $urvey 🖊

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

AUGUST

• Federal and State Statute Lookup ⛯ | $URVEY! | Updated Publications 📰| Rates 💰| Help❗

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

• Fair Housing | ADA | Reserve Resources | Inflation | Governance Matters | Illicit Communication

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

JULY

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

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

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

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

JUNE

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

• 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 SEN$E, Education & Research Survey Results, News, Discussion & more!

MAY

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

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

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

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

APRIL

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

• 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

• 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!

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

FEBRUARY

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

• 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

• A flurry of interesting CAI Exchange topics!

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

• NEW: Resource Pages + Surveys

2021

DECEMBER

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

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

• 60 Second CAI / WSCAI Survey | Survey Results

• Disaster Assistance Equity Act + Governance Matters

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

NOVEMBER

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

• Elevator Modernization Costs

• Board Meeting Survey

OCTOBER

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

• Disclosure Requirements + Articles about Infrastructure, Reserves and Contractors