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Thinking About Buying a Vacation Condo?
With warmer days arriving at last, thoughts turn to lazy summer days in a beachside house. But what's the best way to secure your spot on the beach if you don't want the hassles of full-time ownership? Condo-hotels and time-shares are two popular vacation home options, each with their own benefits and drawbacks. Read More
High Tech Tools for Building Management
In today's world, it's assumed that business can maintain contact internally or with their customers 24/7—whether via cell phones, the Internet or e-mail. This holds doubly true for the residential management industry. Read More
Desperately Seeking Neighbors
A lot of people buy condominiums because they never want to have to mow a lawn
or shovel snow again. But eight owners of University Park Lofts in Worcester,
Massachusetts, had no choice after the developer at the mostly-vacant 37-unit
community ran into financial problems and stopped servicing the property. For
more than two years, they became default handymen and landscapers in an effort
to maintain their investment in the converted factory. The original developer
eventually went bankrupt.
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The Next Generation
A property manager’s day often begins at daybreak with a flood of messages and continues at a frenetic pace until evening board meetings. But no two days are alike; each day poses a new challenge. Read More
Caught in the Middle
Conflict among neighbors is something every property manager must face. As long as people have different viewpoints and varied lifestyles, they will argue and bicker and call each other names. Add to that the close living quarters of some New England condominiums, and the problems can get even worse. Read More
Associations Can "Reasonably" Restrict Rights
Are homeowner association's governmental or quasi-governmental entities? Until last year, most attorneys who practice community association law would have said the answer was clearly, and appropriately, no. But a New Jersey appeals court called that long-standing assumption into question when it decided that a community association, in fact, plays the role of a municipal government, and its rules and regulations must, therefore, pass constitutional muster. Read More
Time For a Change?
Usually, life in a condo goes on uneventfully on a day-to-day basis, with
routine maintenance, elections, gardening, move-ins, move-outs and the like
taking up most of its attention. Every once in a while, however, something
comes up that points to things that need to be changed.
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How to Attract and Keep Management Staff
If a service company’s number one asset is its people, there is no more important topic than “How to Attract and Keep Staff.” The challenges of finding, hiring and keeping the best staff—at a cost that still fits within the overall financial plans of the company —are universal to all companies, but particularly important for managementfirms. Read More
A Delicate Subject
In a condominium, trustees, owners, managers, and developers are confronted each and every day with myriad infrastructure issues, each of which significantly affects the financial considerations of the development. Although not often a topic of polite conversation at social functions or even industry roundtables, waste- water management is typically a significant consideration for condominiums that are located in unsewered areas, where the condominium development must provide and manage its own wastewater collection, treatment, and dispersal system. Read More
Malden Massachusetts
When people mention “suburbs,” it’s not uncommon to think of quiet towns – bedroom communities – lacking the vibrancy of the nearby city that residents head off to each
morning. Malden, Massachusetts, however, though only a 12-minute train commute
from downtown Boston, is defying that stereotype. “Malden,” says Mayor Richard C. Howard, “is a city of opportunities” working to beautify and improve itself. Thanks in part to his long-term mayoral
leadership, the city is succeeding in doing just that, particularly in the
areas of schooling and housing.
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