How one CAI member helped clients during and after Hurricane Maria
San Juan, Puerto Rico: A work crew clears brush created by Hurricane Maria from a city park more than three months after the storm struck. Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 5 storm on Sept. 20, 2017, bringing devastating winds and flooding...
Hurricane Florence: Will FEMA help your community?
Photo credit: Mark Hiebert As community association managers and boards of directors prepare their residents for Hurricane Florence, they are burdened with the knowledge that the Federal Emergency Management Agency likely will not be there to support disaster recovery...
Community Associations Prepare for Hurricane Florence
Community association homeowners in the path of Hurricane Florence are readying disaster preparedness plans. Florence is forecasted to make landfall between South Carolina and North Carolina as a Category 3 or 4 storm late Thursday night or Friday morning and could...
How to Be an Effective Community Manager
Managing people is no easy task. Whether you manage a small team of professionals or an entire organization, the following tips will help you break down barriers and foster great relationships. Establish trust. Your employees and clients look to you for guidance, so...
Doggy DNA Testing Forcing Residents to Pick up after Their Pets
People love their pets. Regardless if you live in a community association, there is nothing worse than waking up to a pile of pet poop in your front yard. But the problem isn’t that the pets are out of control, it’s that residents don’t take accountability for their...
Hurricane Harvey: Many Texans’ lives still far from normal one year later
One year ago today, Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 storm in Texas, dumping as much as 51 inches of rain in some parts of the state—a U.S. record for rainfall from a single storm. Harvey caused an estimated $125 billion in damage and at least 68 deaths...
Making a difference after the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Every year, the CAI Southeast Florida Chapter hosts a golf event and donates a portion of the proceeds to a local charity. But this year was different. When the lives of 17 students and faculty members were lost at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,...
Electric scooters: Is the newest commuting solution bringing chaos to community associations?
Move over Uber, Lyft, and bike shares, dockless, electric scooters are the newest mode of transportation taking over cities, and controversy has already come to some community associations. The scooters, which can go a maximum of 15 mph, provide a relatively cheap and...
Smoking Ban Goes Up In … Smoke
A failed smoking ban remains a point of contention between residents at a nearly 40-year-old condominium building in St. Paul, Minn., according to the Star Tribune. The Gallery Tower board voted to ban smoking in the summer of 2017. The ban, which was due to go into...
Talking ‘Bout Your Generations
Four distinct generations—matures, baby boomers, Gen Xers, and millennials—own homes in community associations and are in today’s workforce. The mix of characteristics and diverse workstyles of these generations has the potential to lead to miscommunication and...
