Giving Thanks
November 26, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster If you're reading this in Minnesota, chances are you're dealing with some level of snow cover this morning. Here in the south metro where I live, we had three days of media hype about blizzard conditions and plowable (trigger-able) snow levels, etc. Sigh. [...]
Those Rising Costs of Homeownership
November 25, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster If you're an HOA leader or HOA resident, you likely made a decision to move into your HOA with the intent of streamlining your life so that capable people other than you take care of yards, snow clearing, maintenance, etc. You may have [...]
Your Master Insurance
November 24, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster When we ask our network members what they'd like to see at future chapter meetings for topics, the subject of insurance comes up often. After all, insurance prices have been spiking for HOAs and other homeowners over the past five years, forcing some [...]
The Wealthiest Generation
November 23, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster My 30-something-year-old children will often say "Hey Boomer" whenever I extol some virtue or make a comment about something I see as fact, but they view as old fashioned or outdated. It took me a while to realize they weren't being kind with [...]
The Boomerang HOA
November 22, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster What happens when you move into a home that you were assured to be outside of an HOA, only to get an invoice years later for actually being inside of one the whole time? Turns out this happened to a North Carolina couple, [...]
+$950M in Property Tax
November 22, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster You've likely seen your property tax statement from your county, and many of us have seen an increase projected for next year. KSTP-TV Channel 5 is on the case: Data from preliminary property tax levies across the state show that Minnesotans could have [...]
