Community Association Managers (“CAMs”), often incorrectly referred to as property managers, are the people that can make your life as a resident of a condominium association or a homeowners association wonderful or painful, depending upon the quality of the manager and the reasons you need to or have to interact with that person. The core responsibility of such CAMs is to guide an association through its annual cycles of governance, budgeting, and maintenance. However, depending upon the size and needs of your association, you may want a less than full service manager, or you may want a larger management company with an extensive finance department and/or a construction management group.   Read the article………………………………….