Notes for self-managed boards
Practical notes for volunteers who run a Florida homeowners association themselves. No legal advice, no filler — the things that actually go wrong, and what to do about them.
- Meeting operations
What a self-managed board actually prepares for every meeting
A board meeting is not an evening. It is a chain that starts weeks before it and ends weeks after it. Here is the whole chain, written down once, so it stops living in one volunteer's head.
5 min read - Annual meetings
How to know you are short of quorum weeks before the meeting
The night an annual meeting fails, the answer had been sitting in a stack of returned proxies for two weeks. Nobody had counted it.
5 min read - Board continuity
When your HOA secretary resigns: the first two weeks
The records were never lost. They were in one person's inbox, and that person no longer answers. Two weeks of triage, in the order that matters.
4 min read
Something you can use today
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