CACM Celebrates 25 Years of Serving California Community Managers

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CACM Celebrates 25 Years of Serving California Community Managers

“CACM’s history is rich, but rife with conflict,” notes founder Melinda Masson. In the mid-1980s, following the bankruptcy of a large community management business amid allegations of embezzlement, the California Association of Realtors (CAR) proposed a bill in the California Assembly that would have required all community managers to have a real estate broker’s license. In response, Masson organized a group of experts, whose testimony helped to defeat the bill.

Later, under the auspices of the Community Associations Institute (CAI) and its California Legislative Action Committee (CLAC), Masson formed a “Blue Ribbon Committee” to perform an in-depth analysis of California’s community management industry. In 1991, the committee presented its findings to CAI and recommended a self-regulatory program. At the same time, CAR renewed its own agenda to regulate the industry.

When CAI subsequently rejected the committee’s recommendations, it became imperative to establish a state-specific manager organization to address California issues and block CAR’s proposal – an organization “designed by community managers, for community managers.” CACM filed its Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State that September and held its first corporate organizational meeting the following month.

In the years that followed, CACM has constantly evolved and developed, yet has remained true to the principles that led to its creation.