by Laura Otto | Oct 9, 2018 | CAI, Community Associations, Education
Lake Michigan from the North Shore, Chicago In a deal worth $27 million, Edgewater Beach condominium owners in Chicago plan to sell their lakefront building to Greenstone Property Group, a New York- based real estate investor that will convert its 188 units to...
by Laura Otto | Aug 24, 2018 | CAI, Community Associations
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...
by Laura Otto | Aug 22, 2018 | CAI, Community Associations, Events
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,...
by Laura Otto | Aug 13, 2018 | CAI, Community Associations, Education, Technology
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...
by Laura Otto | Aug 2, 2018 | Community Associations
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...
