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Can I rent your pool? Understanding the impacts of the new sharing economy

Ungrated

As seen with short-term vacation rentals , complaints about excessive noise, increased traffic, trash, and other governing document violations are likely to increase. What can community associations do when owners begin to monetize their underutilized or idle property assets via the sharing economy? Governing documents.

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The Year Without Pants and How to Replace Email

Association Navigator

The Year Without Pants is about the team that is maintaining and continuously improving the WordPress software, while rarely working in their offices in San Francisco. Commuting, kids, and travel create legitimate reasons for wanting to work remotely. There’s clearly a trend toward adoption of remote or distributed work.

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2015 Favorite Community Reads

Higher Logic

If you’re like me, you were bummed not to make it to the most recent CMX Summit in San Francisco. Since the Millennial generation is the largest in our country’s history, knowing how to incorporate them into your organization is very important. This is the document for you. The CMX digital magazine.

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Put Members in the Spotlight as Meeting Storytellers

Associations Now

What if you want to document these interactions as they happen and seize the moment to capture some of your members’ impressions, experiences, and best thinking? Its success hinged on a team of volunteer members, including one who is a podcast producer at a public radio station in San Francisco.

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Preparing for an Association Event’s Security Means Going Off Auto-Pilot and Taking Control for Yourselves

Association Adviser

While we have discussed what we as an association would do if a disturbance occurred, researching and thoughtfully writing out an emergency plan meant that we developed an integrated, cohesive plan for how to respond to all of those possible disturbances.

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Conference Circuit: Meeting of the Minds Heads to Detroit

Associations Now

The rate at which people and businesses abandoned Detroit over the last half-century is well documented. Industrial leaders from companies such as Oracle, Toyota, and IBM, will attend next week’s conference, alongside city officials from Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and other urban areas. Its population dropped from 1.85

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Following Sexual Harassment Scandal, Science Moves Forward

Associations Now

Among them is the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, which last week endorsed a statement that offered its members best practices on how to handle sexual harassment within the scope of AAPA’s leadership structure.