By Bob Gourley
A colleague recently asked for comments on a communication issue within an HOA. A non-Board Member volunteer offered to create an electronic newsletter for the community. Here are my comments.
I have been publishing community newsletters since 2004, paper and electronic. May I assume that part of this person’s request comes from a lack of an existing community newsletter? If so, I would suggest that the Board begin producing regularly scheduled newsletters either on their own or (pardon the plug) via an outside firm, such as MyEZCondo.
Whether the newsletter is hard copy and/or electronic is secondary to the importance of keeping residents informed of the important decisions being made on behalf of their community.
As a former BOD president, I would like to echo Ruth’s sentiments of accepting volunteer help any day. In fact, there are very few BOD members that didn’t begin their service as volunteers for their communities. Today’s volunteer is likely to be tomorrow’s active BOD member, maybe even the future president.
The HOA where I live has only 1 meeting a year. I have asked to see our financials and they ignore me
We took out a loan for $125,000. To repair the parking lot. That was in September shouldn’t the unit owners know how the money is to be paid back? Any ideas? I’ve asked and again ignored.