HOA Strategic

"In city hall and in local government, you have to get things done without drama," Lexington, Kentucky Mayor Jim Gray explained recently in Politico. It's much the same for volunteers elected to HOA boards and property managers, isn't it? Like mayors, they "have to get things done without drama." So, when HOA residents walk up to their mailboxes at night and lights automatically go on, that's infrastructure doing what it's meant to do. The same for street lights at HOAs, and common area irrigation systems, and recreational facilities, and the list goes on. Getting things done managing all the infrastructure at HOAs, hopefully without drama, is what people serving HOA communities do. You know...like mayors. 

There was the article he wrote about a billy goat and his boss discussing job security . And another article urging politicians to "take field trips to well-run homeowner associations"...to see how HOA leaders "are actually spending public money prudently and efficiently." And there's the book he's written that walks HOA boards and property managers through communication and PR. The book, At Least Some PR by Harvey Radin, boils down years of managing communication for large corporations. When you're in a spirited debate with your HOA neighbors or when there's a newspaper or TV reporter who wants to have a word with you, Radin explains how to buy time when you need to step back to catch your breath. People in PR and communication "often start conversations with the word -- SUPPOSE," he says in the book. Suppose this or that happens, what are you going to do? And there's more in the book that's available through Amazon Books o