A few days ago several of my community manager colleagues and I were talking about how several of their associations had a great deal of deferred maintenance and were concerned about the cost to have it completed. We started talking about borrowing the money for the repairs. One of the managers was the on-site manager of a large adult community and his board was dead set against borrowing money for the repairs. This got me to thinking about how low the cost of borrowing was right now and how quickly the cost of items, like lumber and oil that is used for asphalt and roof shingles, is going up.   Read the entire article……………………………….