Letter from the Guest Editor

By Jasmine F. Hale, Esq.

While the weather outside is warm, and it’s time for the pool, summer vacation, or to hit the beach, the wheels of managing a common interest development never stop!

It can be easy to overlook some of the more “routine” aspects of managing a community association and assume you know what they are. Still, experience shows they are often anything but easy. Managers deal with issues from complying with the financial requirements to navigating the various state and statutory regulations on a daily basis, and yet much of it is not often discussed or taught.

This issue of the Law Journal seeks to illuminate the myriad and complex requirements that managers encounter in their day-to-day jobs with articles covering financial and banking requirements, corporate status, balcony bill lessons, director indemnification, and annual disclosure tips. We also help you unpack the ever-changing election laws.

With all the fun in the sun, I hope this edition provides a useful and ongoing resource for some of the trickier, anything-but-routine issues you run into in your day-to-day jobs. I wish you all a wonderful summer and a stress-free start to your budget season.

Jasmine F. Hale, Esq., is a Partner at Berding & Weil, LLP, and oversees the firm’s corporate counsel practice group, with 20 years of experience working with community association boards of directors and their management teams.