When SB326 Works to Keep Our Residents Safe: A Case Study, illustrating that SB326 truly is a safety law that saves lives. Over the past five years since this law’s inception in late 2019, there has been much debate. Thankfully, many Associations throughout the state have engaged the appropriate engineering or architectural professionals to perform inspections of their Exterior Elevated Elements (“EEEs”), as required by the law.

If you have been one of the Associations that has complied with the SB326 requirements already, you should be pleased that you have done so.

An Association’s annual budget is an important tool for keeping an Association in Good Health. Within a good annual budget, there are both fixed and scheduled costs. Some of these are considered mandatory, and others are somewhat flexible in nature. Reserve Studies will many times identify annual maintenance items for components or systems that an Association should follow, and many are vital that need regular maintenance and are simple to predict as contracted ongoing servic

If your association has a solid, complete Maintenance Matrix and if it is followed and used religiously, chances are that your association is healthy and happy – physically, cosmetically, and financially. It draws a detailed roadmap to a well-kept and well-managed association, and shows visitors, buyers and appraisers alike that your homes are valuable and desirable.

If you are on an HOA board or are an association manager, it is possible, perhaps likely that you’ve heard the age-old adage that “the low bid is not always the best bid.” While many sayings like this can be considered overused and are sometimes “eye rollers,” it is hard to dispel the need to consider this concept when gathering bids and proposals for repairs and maintenance.