Category: Association Operations

 Asbury Park, one of the old showplaces of the Jersey Shore and a town that in  its heyday rivaled Atlantic City, has seen its fortunes rise and fall (and rise  again). Once viewed as a city in decline, Asbury Park benefited greatly from  …

 It’s an unfortunate truth that even the most harmonious condo community or HOA will  experience occasional friction between staff members, or between staff and  management. Sometimes it’s a personality conflict, or a case of an employee b…

 When it comes to the windows in your complex, like most people, you’re probably focused on energy conservation—keeping the air conditioning inside in the summer and the cold air outside in  the winter. While you’re probably aware that not…

Saving money by going green sounds great, but who has that initial capital in these tough economic times? The average person can’t afford the luxury of buying solar panels or driving a hybrid car, however, there are many energy-saving c…

 If one wants to ascertain the state of the green building industry, shared—or “fractionally owned”—vacation condos might be a good place to start.    While many homebuyers will settle for an uninspiring exurb lot near a convenient …

 Good property managers need to be one step ahead of the game, and September is  no time to be caught flat-footed. The once-packed swimming pool is now  virtually empty, and the kids who filled it weeks ago are now lugging school  backpack…

Talk of “green” homes and buildings these days often evokes images of roof gardens, solar panels, and even wind turbines humming in the background. For most condos and HOAs however, “going green” comes incrementally, in much smaller mea…

 The emergence of environmental problems and the corresponding need to reduce  carbon emissions, combined with tough economic conditions worldwide, is leading  more multifamily residential communities to work toward conserving energy and  …

 Real estate professionals, developers and builders are all reporting the same  thing: today’s homebuyers who are looking for maximum value are asking for more than granite  countertops and hardwood floors. They want energy savings and gre…

 When one thinks of Princeton, New Jersey, the first thing that comes to mind is  the Ivy League university that put the town on the map—and with good reason. Perennially ranked in the top handful of colleges in the  country and with an en…