Community Associations Institute (CAI) presents the “Verdict: Americans Grade their Associations, Board Members, and Community Managers,” a 2014 survey of CIC residents, as evidence of “overwhelming” CIC resident satisfaction. CIC is an acronym for Common Interest Communities, industry-speak for homeowners’ and condominium associations, cooperatives, and variations such as planned communities, property owners’ associations, and other marketing catch-all phrases. I have blogged before about the results of this biannual survey, but, honestly, one has to take any market “research” conducted by an organization for its own benefit with more than a grain of salt. There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the validity and reliability of the statistics CAI presents to the media, and good reason to doubt the ability to generalize conclusions drawn by CAI to over 64 million people.
Property values in Western Florida are in the gutter. So it’s not unsurprising that some low testosterone creep would complain that West Dunedin neighborhood values were down because a little boy was operating a little lemonade stand. Lots of neighbors support this kid, to no avail. He’s been ordered to take it down
Here’s another weird one. A friend of mine sells my book, Neighbors At War, from his packaging store. His last one sold just yesterday. Seems an angry customer was sending off a $1000 certified check to his HOA to pay for a garage door that was inadvertently left open.
