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Anger Management

By Yvonnne Zipp

 For most people, “foaming at the mouth” is just an expression. Attorney Ellen Hirsch de Haan has encountered the real  thing – and not at an animal shelter, but at a condominium owners’ meeting. Read More

A Day Well Shared

By New England Condominium

 The date is fast approaching for New England Condominiummagazine’s first annual New England Condo Expo, a one-day trade event featuring over 120  exhibitors from all over the region. The show makes its debut on Thursday, May  7, 2009 at Boston’s Seaport World Trade Center. Read More

A Diamond in the Rough

By Jim Douglass

After 15 tumultuous years of delays and construction costs that soared from $2.6 to $14.8 billion, Boston's "Big Dig" highway project officially came to an end at the stroke of midnight on December 31. Read More

Civilian Again

By Liz Lent

 For board members, the time spent serving their association and fellow residents  can be among the most strenuous yet rewarding periods in their lives. For  years, they make decisions that affect their community in the present and may  continue to impact them years down the road.   Read More

Staying out of Court

By Laura V. Scheel

 That very sentiment, penned by our 16th president, is just as relevant today as  it was when written in the 1850s. Lincoln, like many experts in the field of  law, would likely favor and encourage a different option – alternative dispute resolution (ADR) –as the means to settle differences. And with many of the more typical conflicts  that plague condominium residents and board members, it’s well worth heeding Lincoln’s wise words and forgo the mad dash to the courthouse. Read More

Self-Management

By Domini Hedderman

It's not uncommon for condo associations in the New England area to have outside management companies handling the day-to-day business of running their buildings. Managers do everything from collecting maintenance checks to responding to homeowner issues to hiring maintenance contractors—and all manner of tasks in between. Read More

On and Off the Record

By Pat Gale

 To disclose or not to disclose? That is the question community association  boards wrestle with on a regular basis. If homeowners want to see the  association’s financial records, should the books be open to them? What about a list of  owners who are in arrears with their condo fees? Or details of the current  snowplowing contract? Should boards let neighbors know that a registered sex  offender has moved into the community? What if an association employee is under  investigation for stealing or other criminal activity? Read More

Top 10 Leadership Traits

By Hillary Pember

 Perhaps you are entertaining the thought of running for your association board  presidency. Or maybe by altruistic desire, default or coercion, you already  find yourself wearing that hat. Read More

Keep It Civilized

By Brendan Flaherty

In a community association or HOA meeting without procedural rules and organization, it's amazing how quickly a room full of adults can devolve into a room full of toddlers—everyone talking over one another and no one listening, insuring that no actual objectives are achieved. Fortunately for anyone who has been spared the annoyance and aggravation of meeting turned kindergarten classroom, over a century ago, an Army engineering officer named Henry Martyn Robert really embarrassed himself. Read More

Overdue Overhaul

By Greg Olear

 On July 1, 2010, a variety of sweeping changes to Connecticut’s Common Interest Ownership Act will take effect, and associations throughout  the state will need to change the way they approach building management. “It’s the biggest change to Connecticut condo law in 25 years,” says attorney Adam J. Cohen, the chairman of community law with Pullman & Comley in Bridgeport. Read More

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