Electric charge: Where will community homeowners plug in?
Community associations need to prepare for electric vehicles as more drivers bring them home and expect to plug in. Board members and managers can plan to either provide charging stations as an amenity or offer residents guidelines to install their own.
Reserve study standards: New guidance incorporates preventive maintenance, structural inspections
Community associations should incorporate preventive maintenance and structural inspections into their reserve studies—the important budget planning tools that identify the components a community association is responsible for maintaining or replacing, indicate the status of the reserve fund, and provide a stable and equitable funding plan to offset anticipated future major common area expenditures. The recommendations are part of new Reserve Study Standards released by Community Associations Institute (CAI), the leading international authority on community association governance, management, and education.
Can I rent your pool? Understanding the impacts of the new sharing economy
Community associations are familiar with the challenges associated with long-term home rentals and have become well acquainted with short-term rentals over the past few years, but a new trend in the sharing economy has been making waves recently: rentals for residential components such as swimming pools.
Evaluating safety: Recognizing a need to protect communities
Community association board members, managers, and business partners regularly face challenging and complex issues that can spark strong emotions. Many recognize it’s time to prepare for worst-case scenarios and to take steps to protect communities, colleagues, neighbors, residents, and themselves.
Tragedy and change: CAI honors the victims of Champlain Towers South collapse
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South Condominium in Surfside, Fla. The tragedy took 98 lives. CAI honors those who lost their lives, the loved ones of the victims, and the survivors who lost their home and neighbors.
Two years later: CAI, community associations rally around condo safety
The partial collapse of Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Fla., on June 24, 2021, killed 98 people and is considered one of the worst building disasters in U.S. history. The tragedy spurred CAI into action, galvanizing members and staff around condo safety. Over the past two years, CAI has educated community association residents, board members, managers, business partners, legislators, and regulators about structurally sound and fiscally responsible communities.
Community WOW: CAI recognizes outstanding contributions to community associations
CAI announced the recipients of its highest honors at an annual awards ceremony on May 19 in Dallas in conjunction with the 2023 CAI Annual Conference and Exposition: Community NOW. The honors salute individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and made outstanding contributions to advance community association living.
Community NOW Day 3: Education sessions motivate and prepare attendees
Day three of the 2023 CAI Annual Conference and Exposition: Community NOW introduced attendees to a multitude of education sessions to motivate and prepare. Topics ranged from EV charging strategies, to charting a course post-Surfside, to covering your assets, and more.
Community NOW Day 2: Conference education sessions inspire, inform attendees
Day two of the 2023 CAI Annual Conference and Exposition: Community NOW introduced attendees to the first set of education sessions to inspire and inform. Topics ranged from building maintenance and collecting assessments to conflict and more.
Community NOW Day 1: CAI kicks off 50th anniversary conference in Dallas
The 2023 CAI Annual Conference and Exposition: Community NOW is officially underway, with more than 2,000 attendees and exhibitors celebrating CAI’s 50th anniversary. Stay tuned for updates!