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Making Meetings Count: How to Reach a Quorum Through Proxies

Annual and special meetings require homeowner votes for new board members, assessment increases, capital improvement projects, and amendments to the association’s governing documents. The goal i...

When Your Association Should Consider a Buydown Policy

Insurance coverage is one of the many important aspects of managing and protecting community assets that HOA boards of directors must consider. If associations are faced with large deductibles, one op...

Why Associations and Developers Should Have Separate Legal Counsel

North Carolina has the third most planned communities in the United States after California and Florida. All of these planned communities typically evolve in a similar three-step process. First, a rea...

What are Your Association's Holiday Decorating Guidelines?

As we enter into the fall and winter seasons, many of your friends and neighbors will soon begin decorating their homes for the holidays. Though the holiday season is intended to be a joyous time of f...

When And How To Make Changes To Your Association's Governing Documents

At CAMS, we’ve seen through the years how positive — and necessary — change can be for homeowner’s associations (HOAs). Generally, we recommend every association do what we wou...

Tax Season: What Your HOA Should Know

Tax season isn’t just a headache for individuals and for-profit businesses; it’s also a big piece of the financial puzzle for homeowners associations (HOAs). As complicated as federal and ...

HOA Meetings are for More Than Board Members

If you live in a community with a homeowner’s association (HOA), you no doubt have seen signs, received emails, or even had people knocking on your door to alert you about HOA meetings. There ar...

Who is Responsible for Repairs and Maintenance?

Homeowners often have differing views of their individual homeowner’s associations (HOA). One thing everyone can typically agree on is that one of the primary responsibilities of an HOA is to ma...

Maintenance, Repair and Replacement in HOAs and Condos

Even in quiet times, issues related to maintenance, repair, and replacement are some of the more difficult ones we deal with as community association attorneys. And they are among the most common. A ...

The Value of Partnering with Financial Institutions

Community management companies, like the rest of the world, are being targeted for fraud and the threats are growing. This includes people attempting to cash fake checks at local banks, embezzlement, ...

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