Category: Association Operations

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2025 Summer Updating Your Lobby Furnishings

Keeping lobby spaces attractive and up-to-date often requires more than a fresh coat of paint and seasonal floral arrangements. One key component is the lobby décor; the furniture and furnishings that fill out the space and make it appealin…

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2025 Summer Pet-Friendly Policies

Pets have always been a source of comfort and emotional support for many of us, and since the pandemic created more opportunities for us to remain at home, pets have become even more constant companions. Given that integrating animals into …

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2025 Expo Managing Cannabis

With cannabis use becoming increasingly normalized (as of 2023, 38 states permit medical marijuana use and 23 permit both medical and recreational consumption), co-op and condo administrators are faced with yet another quality-of-life issue…

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2025 Expo Families, Kids & Quality of Life

Managing or administering a multifamily community like a condo, HOA, or co-op building is a lesson in balancing diverse, sometimes conflicting interests and priorities for the collective good. In buildings and associations where residents l…

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2025 Expo Stopping Noise Complaints Before They Start

Noise complaints are easily the number-one grievance of people living in high-density, vertical communities with shared walls, floors, and common spaces. No matter how long you’ve lived in a city, and how accustomed you are to a certain bas…

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2025 Expo The Collections Process

Positive cash flow is the lifeblood of any multifamily residential community, be it a rental building, co-op, condo, or HOA. However, because the latter three are nonprofit entities, maintaining consistent cash flow is even more critical to…

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2025 Spring Onboarding New Building Staff

The first day of work can be intimidating; there are new coworkers, new tasks, new routines, and lots of new names and faces to remember. Whether the new hire in question is a super, porter, custodian, or other on-site staff member, that ac…

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2025 Spring Minimizing the Impact of Major Renovations

Capital projects like major facade work, window replacements, and essential system overhauls can significantly disrupt daily life for the people who call a co-op or condo building home. Engineers, general contractors, and construction compa…

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