Preparing for Pool Season

Summer is quickly approaching, which means pool season is just around the corner! If your community is fortunate enough to have a pool, boy are you lucky! To ensure that the pool season goes smoothly, you want to make sure that residents and the community are properly prepared.  Below are ways you can get your […]

Wi-Fi Safety Around Pools, Public Buildings

Many homeowners associations offer free Wi-Fi around public areas such as pools and clubhouses. In order to make use of it, members will need to agree to the terms and conditions of HOA policy.   Read the article……………

Pool Season Is Over: Tips for Closing Outdoor Pools

As the weather gets colder, no one wants to go swimming in a chilly outdoor pool. If you or your community has a pool, it’s time to shut it down for the fall and winter seasons. Check out these tips on how to properly winterize your pool, so it will be good to go when […]

Swimming Pool Etiquette for Courteous Condo Tenants

Just like any community location, manners go a long way in helping everyone get along. Swimming pool etiquette is every bit as important as laundry room etiquette or keeping the noise down at night. And it goes far beyond not peeing in the pool.     Read the article………

How to Establish Your Community’s Pool Rules

A community pool is a great perk for any neighborhood, and it may attract many potential residents. However, a pool without rules is a serious danger. When establishing your community’s pool rules, use these five guidelines to help you.   Read the article…………….

Liquid Assets: Maintaining a Safe Community Pool

Some lucky condos offer the benefits of an indoor or outdoor swimming pool for their residents; it’s a splashy amenity that many people request when looking for a home…but there are many drawbacks, issues, and liabilities that come with managing a pool.     Read the article……….

Pools and Pool Safety

Does your board have a resident or vendor who likes to “prop open” the pool gate to make access to the association pool easier?   Read the article………

Pool Season: Is Your Association Ready to Take the Plunge?

Many Community Associations prepare to open their neighborhood pool by adding chemicals and performing maintenance to ensure the health and safety of the Owners. But just as HOAs take care in measuring chlorine and skimming leaves, Boards of Directors are well-advised to take care in preparing the Association’s Pool Rules. This blog post reviews the […]

Cannon Ball! It’s Pool Season!

Swimming and summer time – the two are inseparable. If your community is fortunate enough to offer residents this simple summer treat, let’s make sure your HOA is prepped and ready for some poolside fun!  We’ll start with the obvious and most important: pool safety. Despite their innocent appeal, pools can be dangerous if they […]

Pool Rules – A Confusing World

With warmer weather, we’re getting our usual barrage of pool questions.  Many deal with appropriate pool rulesand pool signs.  Without question, pool issues are one of the more confusing areas of our practice in that there are few absolutes.  That’s particularly the case when it comes to dealing with Fair Housing Act issues.     […]

Feds complicate HOA pool rules

Most swimming pools have a list of rules posted somewhere on the premises. We’ve all seen them. The rules contain common sense prohibitions against dangerous pool activities, such as having glass in the pool area and diving into the shallow end.       Read more……….

Pets, Pools & Pilates

Years ago, when you bought a co-op or condo apartment, you looked for a unit that had the right number of bedrooms and bathrooms, a perfectly-sized kitchen, and some great living space. For the longest time, that ideal combination was all a condo needed to attract a buyer to a particular building or association.   […]

Q&A: What Could Happen If Our Condominium Association Does Not Hire Lifeguards?

Q: Our condominium association has a swimming pool and every year we hire lifeguards for the pool season even though there is no ordinance that requires the association to have lifeguards. This year the board is contemplating the need for lifeguards. If the association does not hire lifeguards: Will it impact our insurance costs or […]