Letter from the President

QUICK QUESTION: ARE YOU ROOTED IN HAA?

By STEPHANIE GRAVES, CAPS, CAM, IROP, 2023 HAA President

This year, the theme for the HAA Education Conference & Expo is “Rooted in HAA.” HAA’s biggest event of the year is all about finding your network, exploring all that this industry has to offer and building stronger roots in the process. Consider your ROOTS in HAA. Who has fed your career and helped you to blossom and grow in this industry? Send them a shout out, or better yet, invite them to attend this year’s ROOTED Expo happening on May 18! Credential holders get CE’s AND a discount on registration.

HAA has strong roots securing our organization, and this is the perfect opportunity for new and existing members to join our multifamily ‘tree’ of suppliers, owners, managers, builders, and volunteers in further growing our multifamily association. Houston has the largest local multifamily Expo in the country! That is something to be proud of and to participate in. Not only is it the best in the galaxy, but our Expo connects suppliers and management teams to share information about products, trends and services that assist with property performance, revenue management resources, maintenance and renovation best practices all that help the bottom line. Plus, on the Expo floor you can participate in a cash giveaway by visiting HAA’s Featured Suppliers (See Page 38 for details). Who wouldn’t want to get rooted in that?

You all know how important education is to me and this year we have an amazing list of speakers coming to our Education Conference. We have also added two Spanish speaking courses to the conference this year! You can plan on hearing from Dr. Stevi Dawn covering Leadership Without a Title and Nelson Carcamo discussing Leading with Questions – The Most Underutilized Tool of the Leader for our early sessions. Then, you can top off your morning listening to Jesus Zepeda’s Industry Update or Beth Z talking about the Tech Tools for Serious Self Care. We finish the conference portion of the day with lunch and our Keynote. Don’t miss Slam Poet Andre Bradford speaking to all attendees about Kintsukuroi: On Empathy and Other Things.

Another opportunity happens after lunch when the Expo show floor opens. This time gives members the opportunity to branch out. Network with your peers and our awesome supplier exhibitors to find new products, new services, and most important, new friends in multifamily to grow with. You never know who you might meet or what new technology you might find to make your job and life a little easier!

Finally, I want to take a minute to recognize the tireless work that the Expo Committee does behind the scenes to execute an engaging show for our membership. This one day requires a yearlong commitment of planning and execution. They recruit and assist exhibitors, promote the show to attendees with on property visits and then work the event for HAA all along with all the stresses of working their own booths and jobs. This year the Expo Committee is made up of top-notch members who have dedicated so much time to HAA. I can’t wait to see their hard work come to life (I know they will be proudly representing in their florescent green EXPO shirts). So be sure to tell them THANK YOU! See them on the cover and meet them on Page 36.

I am asking all of you to SHOW UP and SHOW OUT for this year’s Education Conference and Expo and to get ROOTED IN HAA! You will thank me after hearing the best education this industry has to offer and engaging with HAA’s strongest network. I will see you there!

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