If you’re on an HOA board in Los Angeles, you’re safeguarding one of the last realistic paths to ownership many Angelenos have left. Roughly one in four Americans now lives inside a community association. California carries more of that load than any state, with an estimated 51,700 associations, many of them in the LA basin. […]

Burnout doesn’t look like burnout while it’s happening. The manager in trouble is usually still hitting deadlines, still making board meetings, and still answering homeowner inquiries, until the time they hand you their notice. If you’re the one with managers reporting to you, it’s your job to catch it before they do. And to catch […]

There are 373,000 community associations across the U.S., home to around 78.1 million residents in HOAs, condos, and co-ops. Behind all of that is a small workforce of about 60,000 to 65,000 community managers. And because of the big mismatch in numbers, a full-time CAM runs 8 to 10 communities, each with its own board, […]

If I asked you right now what’s sitting on each of your managers’ plates, which board is waiting on a reserve study, which vendor still hasn’t called back, and which resident has emailed repeatedly about the same issue, could you answer without picking up the phone? For a lot of the management companies I talk […]

A good HOA website does more than make a community look professional. It gives residents one dependable place to find information, complete common tasks and stay connected to what is happening in their neighborhood. The best HOA websites help residents quickly answer questions such as: However, not every HOA website is equally useful. Some look […]

A practical buyer’s guide for self-managed communities and community management companies Most “best HOA software” articles start with a ranked list of vendors. That can be useful when you already know exactly what you need. But for most boards and management teams, the harder question comes first: what actually makes one HOA management platform better […]

Communication problems in community management are never a shortage of channels. It’s the opposite. Residents text, email, and message through the portal, sometimes about the same issue on the same day, and none of those channels know the others exist. And what worsens the problem is scale. Community associations are now home to 78.1 million […]

The state your community sits in can shape your board’s legal and financial exposure, and reserve funding is where that shows up most. Florida is the clearest example. For years, boards there could vote annually to waive reserve contributions entirely, letting associations defer funding the roof or the parking structure indefinitely. That loophole closed after […]

Roughly 373,000 homeowner associations and condo associations are operating nationwide as of 2025, and close to 80 million Americans live inside one. Almost none of those residents negotiated a single clause of what governs them. And if you ask homeowners what’s actually written in their association’s governing documents, most will just give a vague memory […]

Condos make up roughly one in five homes in Chicago, per DePaul University’s Institute for Housing Studies, and more than half the housing stock in neighborhoods like the Loop and Near North Side. Buy one, and you automatically join an association. Someone has to run that association day to day, and that’s the work of […]

If you live in an HOA, you’ve probably already formed an opinion about whether your fee is fair, and so has your board. In my experience, after years on the property management side, that opinion is built on gut feelings and complaints, and whatever the number happened to be the year someone moved in, not […]

Dallas-Fort Worth added 123,557 residents between mid-2024 and mid-2025. That’s about 339 new neighbors a day, second-most of any U.S. metro. Much of that growth is filling in master-planned communities along the Dallas North Tollway and rippling into Collin and Denton counties, where Collin County is now the second-fastest-growing county in the country. If you […]

Property managers can make life so much easier for condo boards and residents in the building, so we selected 10 noteworthy management companies based on client feedback, experience, credentials, public reviews, and industry reputation. Top 10 companies How to choose the right management company for your condo Comparing condo management companies in Toronto isn’t quite […]

Financial onboarding is the number one step to prevent financial friction with new owners, and the financial services world figured this out a long time ago. Banks invest heavily in the account opening experience because that first window of interaction determines whether a customer trusts the institution, pays on time, and stays. Community associations aren’t […]

You didn’t join your HOA board to chase payments. And yet, here you are, again, drafting reminder emails, making follow-up calls, and having conversations with neighbors who have somehow missed their dues. It’s tiresome, it eats up your time, and it has nothing to do with the reason you volunteered in the first place. What’s […]