The Laws That Bind
June 6, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster If you're an HOA leader and haven't heard of SF 1750, you've unfortunately been living under a proverbial HOA rock. This much ballyhooed legislation was passed into law on May 12 and will be the law of our Minnesota land on January 1, [...]
Pop Up Survey #8: Landscaping
June 6, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster Our June chapters are underway, but we're always a few months out in our planning for what comes next in our five active locations in the metro. We've had a lot of requests from members to cover landscaping issues for associations, which seems [...]
Is CTA on the Way?
June 3, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster Just when you think things couldn't get any more "interesting" for HOAs, here's a doozy from Realtor.com: A bubbling legal battle over a federal anti-fraud law has sparked worries from homeowners association advocates that they could be newly buried in bureaucratic red tape—and [...]
More Intro Courses Scheduled
May 31, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster We have had high demand for our Introduction to HOAs for New Board Leaders Seminar, which we piloted in January, February and March in New Brighton. We filled nearly every class to capacity, and now we're taking it on the road. We have [...]
Webinar on SF1750
May 29, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster It's been an active month of chapter meetings and discussions around SF 1750, the so-called HOA "bill of rights" that was passed into law on May 12. The countdown clock to compliance is ticking, with the law becoming effective on January 1, 2027. [...]
HOA Insurance Presentation
May 28, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster We've been focusing on HOA insurance trends in our chapters the past two years or so, as many of our members have reported rising premiums and increased deductibles. In the HOA where I'm a board member, we converted from "all in" insurance (where [...]
