Reserves

How to Assess the Financial Stability of an HOA

Understanding a Homeowner Association’s (HOA) financial stability is crucial for maintaining property values and ensuring residents’ high quality of life.…

2 weeks ago

Strategic Budgeting for Deferred Maintenance: A Roadmap for Long-Term Success

Analyzing the financial health of a homeowners association is a crucial task to ensure its ability to maintain and enhance…

2 weeks ago

Flip Taxes: Co-Op & Condo Boards’ Tool for Boosting Reserve Funds (NY)

It began back in the 1970s as a tool to discourage real estate speculators and to avoid assessments and increases…

3 weeks ago

Is it a Reserve Component (or a Capital Improvement)?

So the first criteria for a Reserve component is that it exists. If it does not exist, it is a…

2 months ago

HOA Reserve Funding: Real-Life Lessons from 3 Associations

When managing a homeowners association, reserve funding decisions made by the HOA board have a profound impact on the community’s…

2 months ago

Hidden Trouble: How Aging Infrastructure Threatens Homeowner Associations

It's easy to overlook the critical infrastructure subtly running behind the scenes of every homeowner association (HOA) community. While residents…

2 months ago

Navigating Inflation and Investments: Strategy Guide for HOA Reserve Funds

Whether your HOA reserve fund is modest or substantial, the pressing question remains: How can you best manage this crucial…

5 months ago

Condo boards across Florida work to increase state-mandated funding reserves

This is a crucial time of the year for condo associations across the state as they put together 2024 funding…

6 months ago

Comingling of Funds Questioned (FL)

Q: Can a condominium association’s operating funds be combined with the reserve money? My association has not moved money into…

6 months ago

SB 154 New Reserve Requirements and Exceptions For Condominium Associations (FL)

The new law, SB 154, passed in 2023, the following language was enacted, “In a budget adopted by an association…

7 months ago