guest blog by Deborah Goonan
To legislators at the state and federal level, and housing policy makers, CAI (Community Associations Institute) presents itself as the sole authority on HOA issues, and an advocate for homeowners. In reality, CAI is a trade group that represents the interests of businesses that serve – or exploit – homeowners and residents in mandatory associations.
CAI’s recently published white paper on Association Governance reveals its true agenda – to perpetuate blind acceptance of the Association Governance as the only viable housing institution, and to simultaneously create an ever-growing need for “expert” services of managers, attorneys, and various HOA service providers.
Here’s a link to my own blog site where I take an in-depth look a few of CAI’s outrageous assumptions and objectives:
Dissecting the CAI white paper manifesto on Association Governance (part 1)
Dissecting the CAI white paper manifesto on Association Governance (part 1)
My experience with WSCAI is not a memorable one. They intervened in the reading of SB5263 to the detriment of the WA HOA owners. Now we wait until 2017 to get some stigmatized mindshare of the WA state Finance Committee. This bill has been worked on since 2008 and structured around the moneyed interests. Really short-sighted as the consistent lack of legal oversight keeps values down in such communities. In time people will avoid buying as word gets out. Unregulated Boards are killing the desire and killing the financial stability of HOA’s.