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Suffering from HOA management mayhem? Gassen, your property management services pros, is here with the solutions.

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HOA management has the responsibility to pick vendors that will serve their communities well, but this can be easier said than done!

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Holding a position in HOA management means a lot of public scrutiny, but you can learn to use both criticism and praise to your advantage.

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With the novel Coronavirus still being at large, HOA management teams everywhere have needed to change how they do things, and this may involve temporarily shutting down beloved amenities that, unfortunately, could foster transmission. As your community adjusts to the board’s new MO, though, you’re still left with the task of maintaining those amenities while they’re closed, which can be almost as big a job as keeping them open if you don’t know what you’re doing.

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Your HOA management team can’t do its job without its CC&R’s and its bylaws; Those dictations are how the high standards of living your community is so well known for is maintained. Plus, enforced rules give your community a sense of peace and order that non-HOA communities go without.

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Amenities are a mainstay of a happy HOA community. They provide your residents with some much-needed R&R, not to mention spruce up the neighborhood nicely. They also demonstrate that your HOA management board truly cares for and hears the community, boosting its reputation. As the board’s reputation both influences community morale and resident turnover rates, you’d be wise to use amenities to your advantage in this respect.

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Your reputation, while it might not be an exact reflection of how your board operates, is an important part of what attracts and maintains members of your HOA community. Who wants to live somewhere where they pay what they feel to be incompetent or cold HOA management? That’s a rhetorical question, of course, but you get the idea – it’s essential that you not only do a good job managing your community, but also outwardly appear as such.

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Are your community’s numbers on the thin side lately? We’re not talking about your finances! With proper accounting property management, you should have nothing to worry about there. We’re talking about your residents. Are people moving out?

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HOA communities are truly bastions of high living standards. From boosting property values to maintaining amenities to forging a strongly bonded community, they do quite a bit to make themselves so, and thus there’s often little residents can be dissatisfied about.

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Your HOA management is in tip-top shape. Your online property management is streamlined and simple, and your accounting property management services are nitpicky about their numbers – as they should be, of course!

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