After your organization has set up its HOA accounting software and created a budget, the next step to a well-run, streamlined operation is to create financial reports. While a budget is a set of goals for your HOA, reports help your organization stay on track to meet those goals. Even if you don’t have an …
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Homeowners associations (HOAs) are tasked with being community leaders. At times this means finding out-of-the-box solutions to management challenges. A well-run neighborhood demands flexibility. Because of this, an HOA board may be wary of all-or-nothing management tools. For self managed HOAs, there’s no third-party company to handle the workload or to hold responsible for mistakes. …
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Effective budgeting is a critical part of HOA community management. An association’s budget balances the community’s savings and costs. Budgets also have to weigh immediate upkeep against planning for future projects, so that funds are allocated where they’ll do the most good. In other words, how an HOA spends its money has major impacts on …
HOA accounting software should go beyond budgeting, invoicing, and bookkeeping. It should support your entire HOA operation.
Self-managing an HOA can seem challenging at first, but most HOAs can reap multiple benefits by managing their own communities.
When researching community association management groups, you likely came across HOA, POA and COA. Some people use the terms interchangeably, but they do have core differences. The primary variations depend on the type of property managed by each one and the powers given. Learning to distinguish one from the others can help you better determine …
Homeowners associations can be expensive to set up and operate. They become even more expensive when community managers hire property management companies to do the job. So the first thing HOAs can explore to keep costs low is to choose self-management. However, even self-managed HOAs can run into extensive man-hour requirements, budget problems, and high …