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Community Matters

Community Associations Institute Pennsylvania & Delaware Valley Chapter

Condominium, cooperative and homeowner associations join CAI to learn, achieve and build better communities.

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21:41

Preparing for Association Board Meetings with a Board...

Community Matters ·

2022/03/02

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. One of the primary functions of a community association board is meetings. Among other things, meetings establish policy, develop strategic plans, provide for owner input, and establish community finances and budgets. In today’s episode, we’ll be talking about how a community association board should prepare itself for meetings by

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24:50

Preparing Your Roof for Fall & Winter

Community Matters ·

2022/02/05

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. In this episode, we're talking all things roof related, and whether or not your roof is ready for the Fall season. Today's guest is David Velasco, with Lifetime Tool & building Products. David is an active member of CAI's Business Partners Council. For more information on Lifetime Tool Tool & Building Products, please visit their website

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16:19

Chapter Leader Chat: Nicole Skaro, Board President

Community Matters ·

2022/02/03

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. We're taking a bit of a different approach with some of our podcasts this year. In addition to the informational and educational podcast interviews that you are used to hearing in this space, we'll be including chats with CAI chapter leaders. And, to start off, this episode features a chat with Nicole Skaro, CMCA, EBP, with CIT Bank, the

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28:10

Let’s Talk Legislation with CAI’s PA LAC

Community Matters ·

2022/01/07

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. This is our first episode for 2022 and the topic is legislation. We’re in the middle of a very active legislative session in Harrisburg and CAI’s Pennsylvania Legislative Action Committee is currently tracking 34 pieces of legislation that could potentially impact community association operations in the Commonwealth. We touch on many of

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22:19

Resale Disclosure in Community Associations

Community Matters ·

2021/10/21

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. What is a resale certificate? Simply put, a resale certificate is a legally mandated document containing a very large trove of information that a seller must provide to a buyer of a home or unit in a community association. In reality, it’s a lot more complicated than that. Preparation of a resale certificate is important to both the buyer

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33:32

Lessons Learned: Association Boards, Reserves &...

Community Matters ·

2021/09/21

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Anyone listening to this podcast is very likely aware of the tragic collapse of the Champlain Towers South Condominium building in Surfside, Florida that occurred a few months ago. The discussion that we are focusing on today intends to serve as a conversation regarding the obligations of elected homeowner leaders, while avoiding any

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18:23

Re-establishing Community in a Post Pandemic World

Community Matters ·

2021/07/30

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. As a community association manager or board member, it can be difficult to fully understand the financial, legal, and emotional impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the residents of your community association. While it’s crucial to focus on budgets, board meetings, and other community obligations to get your community back on track, you

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17:58

Bet on This: Games of Chance in Pennsylvania...

Community Matters ·

2021/06/25

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Community associations often get creative in programming activities for homeowners. Sometimes these activities may involve games of chance like raffles, lotteries, drawings and 50/50s. But these games are considered gambling, and state regulations do apply. We’ll discuss these games of chance and how community associations can become

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23:38

Managing Collections & Delinquencies

Community Matters ·

2021/05/17

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Today's episode is about the always important topic of assessment collections and delinquencies in community associations, and what impact, if any, the Covid-19 pandemic has had on homeowner delinquencies in community associations. Today's guest is Sara Austin, Esq., founder of Austin Law Firm, LLC, located in York, Pennsylvania. Sara is a

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28:52

The Nuisance Factor

Community Matters ·

2021/03/26

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. The topic for t his episode is nuisances in community associations – odors, noise, neighbor to neighbor disputes, and more. This is a topic that often comes up in conversations with association board members and managers and how they can deal with complaints from homeowners about nuisances that may occur in their communities. Our guest for

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32:50

To Re-Open or Not - That is the Question

Community Matters ·

2021/02/18

Welcome to this episode of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. A year in to the Coronavirus pandemic, and there is a light, however dim, at the end of the tunnel. Vaccines are rolling out and ramping up and case counts are, at the moment, dropping dramatically in the United States. Does this mean it is now ok for community associations to re-open the clubhouse and the fitness center and other common

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17:29

Avoid the Road to Ruin: Asphalt Maintenance

Community Matters ·

2021/01/25

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. One of the biggest expenses that can face any community association is the maintenance and upkeep of asphalt roads and parking lots. A community with miles of roads can literally spend tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars on maintaining these roadways. My guest for today’s podcast, Paul Gates, is with Asphaltech Pavement Solutions

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18:36

Service & Support Animals: What’s the Difference?

Community Matters ·

2021/01/07

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. CAI often gets questions from community association managers and homeowner leaders on the topic of service and support animals. These questions range from what the difference is between a service animal and a support animal, the state and federal laws that apply, and how to evaluate what may constitute a reasonable accommodation request

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43:43

Virtual Marketing using Social Media

Community Matters ·

2020/12/17

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Today’s episode is part three in a mini-series of episodes focused on our business partner members and how they are marketing themselves in the new, virtual world we’ve all existed in since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. We’ll be talking with various business partner members about best practices for marketing in a virtual world,

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34:12

Virtual Marketing: The Perfect Virtual Elevator Pitch

Community Matters ·

2020/11/17

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Today’s episode is part two in a mini-series of episodes focused on our business partner members and how they are marketing themselves in the new, virtual world we’ve all existed in since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. We’ll be talking with various business partner members about best practices for marketing in a virtual world, how

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14:49

Marketing Your Community to Millennials

Community Matters ·

2020/11/02

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. This episode is all about millennials - specifically, how to attract millennial homebuyers to your community association. Our presenter for this episode is Jenniffer Harrington, Business Development Manager for Associa MidAtlantic, a CAI-accredited association management company with offices in King of Prussia, PA and Mt. Laurel, NJ. This

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34:08

The Value of Virtual Marketing

Community Matters ·

2020/10/27

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. With this episode, we’re expanding our podcast beyond the issues of managing and governing community associations. This new mini-series of episodes focuses on our business partner members and how they are marketing themselves in the new, virtual world we’ve all existed in since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. We’ll be talking with

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43:46

Social Media Impacts on Community Associations

Community Matters ·

2020/07/29

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. In this episode, we'll be discussing the use of social media and its potentially significant impacts on community associations. Today's guest is Edward Hoffman, Jr., a Partner and Co-Founder of Barrow|Hoffman, a Community Association Law and Litigation firm with offices in Warminster and Allentown, PA, and a member of CAI’s Pennsylvania

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15:44

Safely Opening Your Fitness Center during Covid-19

Community Matters ·

2020/06/30

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Community Associations, like other businesses and organizations, are slowing starting to re-open facilities and amenities now that stay-at-home orders have been lifted in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. But how do associations re-open gyms and fitness centers and operate them safely while Coronavirus continues to be a threat? We’ll

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24:12

Act Early to Ease the Cost of a Building Repipe

Community Matters ·

2020/06/23

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. Most community associations probably don’t think very often about your building’s pipes. But it might be too late by the time a leak shows up – your pipes are likely already failing. In this episode of Community Matters podcast, we discuss re-pipe as a critical capital improvement, with guest David Hossfeld, Vice President for Sagewater, a

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