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With the sunlight finally beginning to feel warm again, the unmistakable feeling of spring has entered the air. For some people, this can mean a sudden itch to get outdoors. While for others, it can mean a need to relax, and while for others, a fierce drive to start spring cleaning! There’s a reason why the term has stuck around in our language as long as it has. There’s something about warming weather that can make you want to dust off, declutter, and start completely anew. Why not adopt this line of thinking for your HOA?

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If you’re a new resident in an HOA neighborhood, or your neighborhood has recently started an HOA, all the terminology thrown around can be confusing. Of course, you might know what words like “president” and “treasurer” mean outside of an HOA context, but what about the inside of it? What do these positions do? And what’s the deal with HOA boards and property management services? Don’t they essentially do the same thing? It all can feel so overwhelming.

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Spring has finally arrived here in Minnesota! While it can be tempting to kick back in the sun and absorb some much-needed warmth after a long, cold winter, good HOA management knows better. Chances are, if you’ve hired property management services to work with your neighborhood, they’ll be hard at work landscaping, planning, and checking over community amenities to make sure the snow and cold haven’t done too much damage. It’s a multifaceted and demanding job, but somebody has to do it, and with the help of accounting property management and online property management from a reputable company like Gassen, your board and HOA management company can tackle anything spring maintenance throws at them.

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When it comes to property management services, good HOA management can be hard to spot without the proper industry-related context. In other words, if you don’t have a knowledge of what’s considered normal in the industry and what isn’t, you might not know when your property management services are going above and beyond. Unfortunately, this line of thinking also applies to poor property management services. If you don’t know how your online property management or accounting property management services should be behaving, you might let a lot of unacceptable behaviors slide.

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As secure and well-managed as most HOAs are, they are not completely immune from financial hardship. For example, unseasonably poor weather, such as severe storms and excessive rainfall, can mean that the neighborhood amenities require repair, and that might mean drawing deep into the HOA’s finances. While it’s always for the best to have a pool of funds available for such unplanned emergencies, when hard times hit one on top of the other, it can be the case that these funds might not be enough to cover everything. When your HOA can’t make ends meet, what is a responsible board to do?

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You’re an HOA board member. Driven by your passion for a harmonious and successful neighborhood, you devote countless hours to unpaid, volunteer HOA management. Whether you're a treasurer or secretary or even something in between, this is no easy task. You do everything from accounting to property management to vetting contractors to effectively communicating news to your neighborhood residents—all without earning a single penny for it!

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Unification is just another thing that HOA’s do well. From their well-balanced street aesthetics to their devoted communities, these types of neighborhoods are well-known for the high standard of living invoked by their pursuit of order and harmony.

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Wondering if an HOA is right for your neighborhood? An HO management company that provides online property management weighs in.

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We’ve all heard the phrase “there is no I in team.” This idea, to some degree, does apply to HOA management boards. While we here at Gassen believe that board members as individuals make a huge impact on their communities, it’s the function of the board as a team that really makes HOA neighborhoods shine.

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If you’ve poked around our website, you may have noticed our page “The Gassen Difference.” Indeed, the way we run things is slightly different from many HOA management companies. Our being different is a good thing; it enables us to provide one-of-a-kind, individualized service, while also setting us apart in the industry and giving us the tools we need to help your neighborhood shine.

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