Community Matters

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Community associations often get creative in programming activities for homeowners. Sometimes these activities may involve games of chance like raffles, lotteries, drawings and 50/50s. But these games are considered gambling, and state r...

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Today's episode is about the always important topic of assessment collections and delinquencies in community associations, and what impact, if any, the Covid-19 pandemic has had on homeowner delinquencies in community associations. Today...

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. The topic for t his episode is nuisances in community associations – odors, noise, neighbor to neighbor disputes, and more. This is a topic that often comes up in conversations with association board members and managers and how they can...

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. A year in to the Coronavirus pandemic, and there is a light, however dim, at the end of the tunnel. Vaccines are rolling out and ramping up and case counts are, at the moment, dropping dramatically in the United States. Does this mean it...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. One of the biggest expenses that can face any community association is the maintenance and upkeep of asphalt roads and parking lots. A community with miles of roads can literally spend tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars on maintain...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. CAI often gets questions from community association managers and homeowner leaders on the topic of service and support animals. These questions range from what the difference is between a service animal and a support animal, the state an...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Today’s episode is part three in a mini-series of episodes focused on our business partner members and how they are marketing themselves in the new, virtual world we’ve all existed in since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. We’ll be...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Today’s episode is part two in a mini-series of episodes focused on our business partner members and how they are marketing themselves in the new, virtual world we’ve all existed in since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. We’ll be t...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. This episode is all about millennials - specifically, how to attract millennial homebuyers to your community association. Our presenter for this episode is Jenniffer Harrington, Business Development Manager for Associa MidAtlantic, a CAI...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. With this episode, we’re expanding our podcast beyond the issues of managing and governing community associations. This new mini-series of episodes focuses on our business partner members and how they are marketing themselves in the new,...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. In this episode, we'll be discussing the use of social media and its potentially significant impacts on community associations. Today's guest is Edward Hoffman, Jr., a Partner and Co-Founder of Barrow|Hoffman, a Community Association Law...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Community Associations, like other businesses and organizations, are slowing starting to re-open facilities and amenities now that stay-at-home orders have been lifted in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. But how do associations re-...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Most community associations probably don’t think very often about your building’s pipes. But it might be too late by the time a leak shows up – your pipes are likely already failing. In this episode of Community Matters podcast, we discu...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. We often hear people talk about the need for communication skills, especially in a crisis. And crisis communication skills are needed perhaps now more than ever in the midst of a global pandemic. We’re going to talk about crisis communic...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Memorial Day is fast approaching, and, with it, pool season. But, this year’s pool season is different from all the others, thanks to Coronavirus. Many community managers and homeowners are facing the same question right now about their...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. This topic was adapted from an article by Ross Rutman, with JGS Insurance, that was originally published in the May/June 2019 issue of our chapter publication, Community Assets. It’s a pretty common question. Nearly every homeowner has a...

Today’s episode of Community Matters podcast is being recorded during the ongoing coronavirus public health emergency. Millions of workers have been furloughed while millions more have been working from home for the last few weeks, and for the foreseeable future. This sudden change means a new and unfamiliar routine for many of us. In this episode of Community Matters podcast, we’re talking with A...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations.  Today’s episode is being recorded during the Coronavirus global pandemic, during which tens of millions of Americans are under stay at home orders. We are re-visiting and re-purposing older content that we believe may have some useful v...

Today’s episode is all about technology – more specifically, the technology necessary to efficiently manage a condominium or homeowners association, and a community association management company. From accounting and collections, to data security, communications platforms, and even mobile apps, we’re going to touch on all of it with today’s guest, Steve Gothard, Director of Operations for CAMCO Ma...

This episode of Community Matters is this first in a new series of episodes re-purposing content from CAI's bi-monthly magazine, Community Assets. The topic for this episode is dealing with hoarding in community associations. This article was originally published in Community Assets in the May-June, 2016 issue, and was authored by Josephine Wolf, Esq., and Scott MacNair, Esq., with the law firm Cl...

Tune in the audio version of CAI's The Minute Email Newsletter for December, 2019. Spend sixty seconds to hear about December events, our new podcast on Religion in Community Associations, the 2020 member directory and more! Visit our website for more information on CAI .

This episode of Community Matters is being recorded at the start of the holiday season, which means associations may be dealing with holiday decorations, religious displays, and related issues that may lead to violations of fair housing laws. We’ll be discussing the challenges that religion may pose to community associations with today’s guest - Ed Hoffman, co-founder and partner of Barrow Hoffman...

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters Podcast. This is a very special episode featuring Chapter President Cathy Dunn, Chapter Secretary Nicole Skaro and Business Partners Council Chair Sean McCabe talking about CAI’s efforts to support Covenant House of Pennsylvania’s Executive Sleep Out. On Thursday, November 21, 2019, nearly 40 members and friends of CAI will be participating in the Execu...

Today’s topic is invasive pests…specifically the Emerald Ash Borer, which has been killing our Ash Trees, at an alarming rate, for the last several years. The threat persists despite new treatments. We’ll cover this topic in today’s episode of Community Matters, including where the Emerald Ash Borer came from, and what you can do to help save any Ash Trees that may be in your community or on your...

Tune in the audio version of CAI's The Minute Email Newsletter for November, 2019. Spend sixty seconds to learn how to join a chapter committee, nominate a member for CAI's Excellence Awards, and more! Visit our website for more information on CAI .