by Guest Author | Mar 19, 2025 | CAI Chapter Article, Guest Post, HOA Trends, Insurance, Tips
Guest Post By Holly Smith, CMCA, AMS, PCAM This article first appeared in the CAI Coachella Valley HOA Living Magazine, February 2025 Issue. One of the most important aspects of a community manager’s job is to ensure that you are managing your associations in...
by CAI CLAC | Dec 18, 2024 | HOA Trends, Legislative Accomplishments, Legislative Day
To wrap up 2024, CAI-CLAC recently held its final event for the year, our Virtual Town Hall: The Year in Review + A Look Ahead to 2025. We had a record-breaking number of 233 registered attendees. Unfortunately, the Town Hall started just after a Northern California...
by PR Chair | Jul 11, 2023 | HOA Trends, Insurance
The Insurance Task Force of CAI’s California Legislative Action Committee has been actively advocating to address the insurance crisis impacting many California community associations. Here is the latest. As you have heard from us in previous articles, the California...
by PR Chair | Jun 20, 2023 | Guest Post, HOA Trends, Partners
Guest Blog Post By Terri Guest, CIRMS, CMCACAI’s Annual Conference & Exposition took place in Dallas, Texas in late May and celebrated the 50th anniversary of Community Associations Institute (CAI). We can no longer call it the “National” Conference, as CAI has...
by PR Chair | Mar 23, 2023 | Guest Post, HOA Trends, Hot Bills, Legislative Updates, Uncategorized
The following interview first appeared in the CAI San Diego Community Insider. You can view the Spring 2023 Edition here. With fewer and fewer commercial insurance companies offering coverage for properties they deem to be too exposed to wildfires, what are the...
by PR Chair | Mar 15, 2023 | HOA Trends, New Legislation
If you’re wondering what CAI-CLAC’s Wildfire Insurance Task Force has been up to over the last two years, here is a summary of our efforts on behalf of California community associations and where we currently stand. The Wildfire Insurance Task Force of CAI’s...
by PR Chair | Nov 7, 2022 | HOA Trends, Hot Bills, Legislative Updates
This article first appeared in the CAI GLAC Chapter September/October Issue of Focus Magazine. Last year twelve bills were enacted that impacted, directly or indirectly, homeowners associations. When the year started, CAI’s California Legislative Action Committee...
by PR Chair | Aug 15, 2022 | Guest Post, HOA Trends, Hot Bills, Legislative Updates
Guest Blog By Kimberly Lilley, CIRMS, CMCA, EBP A sincere thank you to all who responded to our Call-to-Action this year! We appreciate that you are willing to take your time to be sure that our legislators, regulators and general public are informed about the current...
by PR Chair | Jun 22, 2022 | HOA Trends, Legislative Updates, Uncategorized
By Beverlee Gordon and Terin Reeder-Atkins According to the Department of Financial Protection & Innovation (“DFPI”), “routine HOA assessments” do not constitute a “consumer credit transaction” as defined under the California Debt Collection Licensing Act...
by PR Chair | Apr 1, 2022 | Announcements, HOA Trends, Legislative Day, Legislative Meetings, Legislative Updates
Guest Post by Pam Richardson, Esq. Each year, board members, community managers, and business partners working with community associations meet with their legislators to educate them about pending legislation and current issues affecting California’s 55,000 community...
