What Does a Homeowners Association Do for Communities?

People have different ideas about homeowner associations. Sometimes, they get a bad reputation because of their role in enforcing community guidelines and standards.

With the right property management company, you can be sure your HOA is supported, respected, and understood. Community Property Management can help you communicate with your residents, partners, and leadership about what you do and how you help.

Your Role as a Homeowner Association

A community Association serves as the governing body within a common-interest community, which may be a neighborhood or a building. Every HOA is managed and funded by residents. A board of directors is typically responsible for holding meetings, managing budgets, and enforcing dues, fees, rules, and regulations. Board members are volunteers.

You want your HOA to demonstrate functionality, a sense of community, and authority.

With the right presence, HOAs can achieve a number of things, including:

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Increasing property values for homeowners in the community.

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Ensuring the community is attractive, clean, and safe.

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Creating community spirit and cooperation.

HOA Fees and Regulations

When residents complain about their HOA, it’s usually a complaint that centers around the fees that are charged or the rules that are perceived as too strict. It’s important that you know how to communicate with your residents and potential buyers so everyone understands the responsibilities and expectations of living in your community. Our team at Community Property Management is especially good at this.

Dues or HOA fees are collected monthly, quarterly, or annually, depending on how you have your collection methods and accounting set up. Your job is to help residents understand what these fees cover and why they’re necessary. Usually, they pay for:

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Maintenance and cleaning of common areas.

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Landscaping.

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Security.

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Lighting, sidewalks, and streets.

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Elevators, pools, fitness centers, clubhouses, and other amenities.

Fees range from under $225 per month to more than $1,000 per month, depending on where your HOA is located and what type of community you’re managing.

A majority of HOAs are underfunded, even when they’re able to successfully collect their dues and fees. This is where a professional association management company can help. Find out how we keep your finances in order and your dues collected at Community Property Management.

More Information About Our Service Areas

CPM was started in 1985 with the idea that community management should be accessible, transparent, ethical, and proactive. With this simple business plan in place CPM has expanded to serve a variety of communities (to include, Condominium, Villa, Single-Family Homes (HOA), Town-home, Mid-Rise, and other styles of Multi-Family communities) and extended our service area to the entire Greater St. Louis Missouri and Illinois Metropolitan area including Missouri’s St. Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson, and Franklin Counties; and the Illinois counties of Madison, Monroe, St. Clair and Jersey.

St. Louis County Missouri

St. Charles County, Missouri

Jefferson County, Missouri

Monroe County, Illinois

St. Clair County, Illinois

Franklin County

Occupied by succeeding cultures indigenous peoples, this area was populated by the historic Osage tribe at the time of European encounter. The region was first settled by Europeans during the rule of the Spanish Empire. The Spanish log fort San Juan del Misuri (1796–1803) was built in present-day Washington. After the American Revolutionary War, migrants from the new United States started moving West. Among them were the family and followers of Daniel Boone, an explorer from Kentucky who settled the area starting in 1799. For the next two decades, most settlers came from the Upper South, especially Kentucky and Virginia, bringing their slaves with them to work the land.

In 1833 substantial numbers of German immigrant families began settling in the area, and soon they outnumbered the slave owners in the county. The German newcomers were opposed to slavery, and their sons would become Union supporters during the U.S. Civil War. Former governor and then Confederate General Sterling Price led his cavalry though the county during his Missouri raid of 1864.

Before the war Franklin County had served by steamboats that moved freight and passenger traffic on the Missouri River. Afterwards, it became a railroad transportation center. Manufacturing industries were established at the end of the Civil War and successive ones have continued.

Bias Vineyard, near the small city of Berger, is located within the Hermann American Vinticultural Area (AVA), designated in 1983. Röbller Vineyard and Winery near New haven is also in the Hermann AVA. Wineries along both sides of the Missouri River are part of the Missouri Rhineland, whose vineyards were started by German immigrants in the mid-19th century. Before Prohibition, Missouri was the second-largest wine-producing state in the nation. Everything was closed down except for limited production of wine allowed for religious purposes. The state's wine industry had to be completely rebuilt, which has been taking place since the 1960s.

Madison County

Jersey County

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Always very responsive. I don’t always like the answers, but Jane Oliver gets back to me very promptly and gives me very direct answers.

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Responsive to my requests. Always.

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Good Morning, I had the pleasure of talking to Treasa this morning about our account , she helped me register our account and setup auto pay. Being new here and our mail and internet was slow being setup and working . Treasa has good people skills and patience with this senior citizen . Thank you for the your help.

Dec 5, 2020

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First, I would like to thank CPM for their two amazing employees Terry and Angie. Earlier this week I had an issue that was brought to my attention by a pest control company that mice were getting into my attic by way of a small gap around my gutters. I immediately called Terry S. and she had someone out with 24 hours to fix this problem. (I would like to mention that this saved me $900 with the pest control company.) The crew that she sent were very surprised that I was going to be charged that amount After telling them about the other issues the pest control company had mentioned in my basement, they checked that for me. I am elderly and did not go into the basement with the pest control inspector, but I did go with the crew that Terry sent. Needless to say, there was nothing wrong in my basement. I was being taken advantage of because of my age - but Terry and her crew saved me! And this saved me an additional $2,000.00. That evening Terry called to make sure the issue was resolved. (I have never experienced that with a management company.) This is the third management company that I have had with this HOA since I moved here and I have never had anyone that would respond and then check on the work afterwards. Terry and Angie have been wonderful! So Terry and her crew have saved me almost $3,000.00. I cannot thank you enough for having such wonderful employees! I will be forever grateful.

Dec 4, 2020

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T0 whom it may concern, I just wanted to say how grateful I was for having my plumbing problem taken care of in a timely fashion and on a Saturday afternoon .I had a plumber come out and he ran the rooter from the condo out, and said it was in the outside part of the line. So i called the emergency number and they cleared it up very quickly. I did appreciate their the job they did.

If we can be of help or you’d like to learn more about what it’s like to work with Community Property Management, get in touch. We’d be happy to assist you or explain the differences CPM can make for your community through our proven systems and services.

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