The Essentials of Community Management

I'm in Natick, MA., preparing to teach the CAI course on The Essentials of Community Association Management tomorrow and Friday.  I don't teach this course as often as some others, but every time that I do teach it, I am impressed as to what a good overview of the industry that it provides.  I've taught board members, attorneys and many managers in the course, and I think it provides knowledge at all levels.  If you haven't taken the course, you should consider it.  It is also available as a home-study course, if you're not inclined to take the time to learn from one of CAI's distinguished national faculty members.

Truth in Advertising of "Utah HOA Attorneys".

There's a new website out there that purports to be a listing of HOA attorneys in Utah.  There's one firm listed on the site, and the listed lawyer (who won't be identified) is identified as a "thoroughly [sic] attorney."   Since I'd never seen the site before, I thought I'd give it the benefit of the doubt, and suggest Hobbs & Olson for a listing, but I clearly indicated in my email that I was not interested in paying for a listing.  5 minutes later, after 9 p.m., I received a response which stated: "we are a paid only service, we do not give space away for free..."

So, if you want to find a "thoroughly [sic] attorney," who is paying to be the listed HOA attorney, you might want to find that other site by Googling it.  I'm not going to list it here, because that would be assisting that site's credibility, and I don't think that a website that purports to list "the best hoa attornies [sic] in Utah," but that is a "paid only service" deserves any credibility.