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Thank you to Melissa Bagherian and A. Todd Moseley for spending some time with us to discuss how to build a go-to-market strategy from scratch, what worked, what didn't, and where they wish they'd started sooner. Full replay available here and if you want to learn more, Catie Marks and Maegan Woytek would love to connect today: https://lnkd.in/e8vtH8Jk #HOA #CommunityManagement #referrals #growth #GTM #CAMLeaders

Boards that pay attention to their reserve funding levels and routine maintenance needs now can likely “have a smoother and more predictable assessment trajectory over time.” We help HOAs set realistic budgets that account for the true cost of ownership - not pushing that cost into future years or to new buyers. Coupled with affordable housing issues in Utah, (https://lnkd.in/gVSuQ2Wv) we are helping each of our clients be financially responsible and realistic with their community budgets.

Ben Currin nailed it. His point is the one most people miss: boards held dues flat for years because no one wants to raise costs on their neighbors. That instinct is human, but it has a cost. Underfunded reserves and deferred maintenance always come back as bigger special assessments and harder decisions later. Dues did not spike in a vacuum. They caught up to reality, after years of boards working hard to avoid any increases. But, the best boards are making thoughtful, transparent decisions to protect the long-term health of their communities, and that might mean a few neighbors who are not sending Christmas cards this year. Transparency is the throughline. In dues. In reserves. In how boards communicate with neighbors. Lawmakers love to promise it. Boards have been delivering it for decades. Real transparency is built in the boardroom, not the Capitol. This is why partnerships matter. When the people building the platforms we run on, like Vantaca, are paying attention to the same pressures our boards are navigating, we get sharper. The conversation gets honest. The work gets better. At Silverleaf Management Group, LLC, that is the standard we hold ourselves to. Better partners. Better operators. Better communities. #WeAreSilverleaf #CommunityAssociationManagement

CAMCO Management Company's Julia Robbins discusses how HOAi cut their budgeting time in half. Their teams shifted from doing the work to reviewing it, and that change alone created efficiencies across the board. And there will be even more to unpack on May 28th at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT: https://lnkd.in/evAw6YpC #HOAi #BudgetSeason #CAM #PropertyManagement #CommunityManagement #AI #HOA

Median HOA dues jumped 44% last year, from around $500 to $757. Big number. But important context. As I shared with Claire Boston at Yahoo Finance, 2025 felt like an inflection point for community associations. Boards are navigating a much more complex operating environment: rising insurance premiums, higher repair and labor costs, aging infrastructure, and more frequent weather-related expenses. For years, many communities worked hard to keep dues stable for homeowners. That instinct is understandable. No board wants to raise fees on their neighbors. But well-run associations also have to plan for the long term. Dues fund the services, reserves, maintenance, and shared infrastructure that protect communities and preserve property values. When communities underfund reserves or defer maintenance for too long, the eventual cost can be much higher: larger special assessments, bigger repair bills, and more difficult decisions down the road. The best boards are not simply raising dues. They are making thoughtful, transparent, and responsible decisions to protect the health of their communities. Grateful to Claire for the thoughtful reporting on a critical piece of the American homeownership story. https://lnkd.in/ec3ejPjJ Vantaca

$436,000.... That's the median home price in America right now. And it's quietly reshaping every community association in the country. Three stories from this week show how: → Credit card delinquencies are at their highest point since 2011 (Bankrate). The people moving into your communities are carrying more financial stress than their paperwork shows. → Multigenerational households jumped from 3.2M to nearly 4M in a decade (TheStreet). Families are consolidating under one roof to survive the math. → Minnesota just passed HOA reform after two years of resident pressure over reserve fund and special assessment confusion. 82% of new homes in the state are built inside an HOA. Financially stretched homeowners. More complex households. More legislative scrutiny. All landing inside community associations. Maegan Woytek giving you what you need to know over a Friday coffee ☕ #CommunityManagement #HOA #reform #delinquencies

We're offering a BIG giveaway at CAI Annual this year, which you can learn more about by stopping at Booth #707 🏝️ See Vantaca in action with hands-on product time, 1:1 meetings, and a ticket to the CAI Annual Forward Feels Good party you can't possibly miss: https://lnkd.in/e5CQe9M9 #CommunityManagement #HOA #AI #CAI #CAIAnnual

Mike McGee's category on G2 has 97 companies in it. The average category has about 75. So when Mike talks about how he is building his product marketing team at Vantaca, he is really talking about how you avoid sounding like the other 96. His answer is the newsroom. On this week's Content Amplified, Mike laid out a structure where each product marketer covers a customer role the way a reporter covers a beat, with an editor's layer on top. He got the idea from Nilay Patel's Decoder, specifically the episode on how Airbnb folded product, product marketing, and program management into one team built around the customer instead of the platform. What sold me is that it was already running inside the company. Support reorganized around customer roles first, then implementation, and now it is product marketing's turn. They even stopped sending email from "the marketing team" and started sending it from a person, out-of-office bounces and all. Two more things he is firm on. Pressure-test every messaging call against a Seth Godin question: who is it for, and what is it for. And don't restructure for the sake of it. Look at what is already predictable and replicable, find the gaps, and only blow up the org chart when there is no other way to get where you are going. Great conversation if you are scaling a PMM team or thinking about how content and customer marketing should fit together. Connect with Mike on LinkedIn. https://lnkd.in/gSS3CdtW - Benjamin Ard