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Prepping Your Outdoor Amenities
Thanks to its tropical climate, erratic weather changes are nothing new to
Southern Florida residents. There are cold fronts from November through March,
and if that’s not enough, the hurricane season is kind enough to coincide with the wet
season. Despite the lack of four distinct seasons, this occasional volatility
makes the maintenance of outdoor HOA amenities a year-round proposition.
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Holiday Harmony
One of my young daughter’s favorite YouTube clips involves an elaborately decorated house, whose
thousands of colored Christmas lights were programmed to flicker, strobe, wave,
and blink to the tune of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s hard-rock holiday anthem “Wizards in Winter.” (The guy’s electric bill must have been through the well-lighted roof that December).
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More Than Just Monkey Bars
Often when we think of the “good old days,” thoughts of a time before cell phones, Facebook and GPS come to mind, when kids
played in public parks stocked with swing sets, monkey bars and maybe (if you
were lucky) a basketball hoop and teeter-totter.
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Breathe In, Breathe Out
Few things are as important to our health and well-being as the air we breathe,
especially inside our own homes. That is why it is so important for individual
homeowners as well as management to stay up-to-date on issues of indoor air
quality and ensure that everything possible is done to provide a healthy
environment.
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Brew Your Own Juice
Among the many perils experienced by Floridians during the blackouts and
hurricanes that swept the state in the middle of the last decade,
non-functioning emergency systems in condominium buildings were a major
problem.
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Keeping Up Appearances
There’s nothing quite like making a first impression. For those living in condominiums
or homeowner associations in South Florida, a great deal of creating this
important impression is often out of a resident’s hands, so it’s necessary for a manager or board to keep things looking great at all times.
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Association Management and Property Maintenance
The most important contribution that professional management can make to a
client property and its owners is the protection and enhancement of the
property’s quality of life and its investment value. It is from these primary fiduciary obligations that all other management
activities take their direction.
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H2Oversight
Stretching south from Orlando, the Everglades are vital to sustaining Florida’s sensitive ecosystem. To this end, proper water management is critical to
maintaining equilibrium for residents, vegetation and wildlife. In a climate
like southern Florida's, well-planned and managed water management and drainage
systems are essential. Neglecting this can have devastating result from—flooding to mold to costly residential and commercial real estate damage.
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The Sound & the Fury
Noise is a key quality-of-life problem for almost anyone living in a
densely-packed urban environment. It's the bane of many a condo-dweller’s existence, and over the years engineers, architects, and designers have tried
any number of ways to reduce the problem of noise in multifamily buildings—some more successfully than others.
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Q&A: Boards and Contract Dealings
How about a board president who creates a landscape contract specifically designed for his brother-in-law so that no other company can bid on it? The cost is a difference overpayment of $13,000 a year. This president also states in said contract that all owners and workers must be U.S. citizens with social security cards. Is that legal? Read More
