• Rochester Ribbon cutting

Rochester, Now Open

By |September 18, 2026|

September 18, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster Our sixth chapter in Minnesota is now open, and it was an amazing start. Despite a few technical glitches and some other hiccups that we always expect with [...]

  • Freddie and Fannie Reserve Requirements for HOAs

Fannie / Freddie Reserve Changes

By |September 17, 2026|

September 17, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster Editor's Note: Back in May we ran this blog from Antony Startup of Twin Cities Criterium Engineers, one of our sponsors who conducts reserve studies for HOAs. He [...]

  • HOA Ombudsman

Ombudsman Anew?

By |September 14, 2026|

September 14, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster Could we have a new HOA Ombudsman? As you likely remember from our past blogs, the first ombudsman went out as fast as he came in, and we've [...]

  • Phil Frosch on Budgeting

HOA Budgeting 101

By |September 14, 2026|

September 14, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster At our Oakdale chapter on Friday, we were privileged to have Phil Frosch, Former CFO of Sunstream (and a pedigree from other large companies) present to our chapter [...]

  • Mark Foster interviews MEI

Onsite with MEI

By |September 13, 2026|

September 13, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster It's always interesting for me to conduct interviews with subject matter experts in the HOA industry. I've done a fair amount of them, and recently I visited with [...]

  • HOA Scammers

HOA Scammer Alert

By |September 12, 2026|

September 12, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster If you've been paying attention, you know that HOA boards will need to disclose even more information to residents as a result of new legislation going into effect [...]