Governance & Meetings — Anthoam Blog

• HOA Elections: Procedures, Inspector of Elections, and the Three Most Common Challenges

  Notice, secret ballot, inspector of elections, cumulative voting, election by acclamation, and the procedural failures that get HOA elections overturned.

• Fiduciary Duty of HOA Directors: Business Judgment Rule, Conflicts, and D&O Coverage

  What the duty of care and duty of loyalty actually require, how the business judgment rule protects directors who follow process, and what D&O does and doesn't cover.

• Self-Managed vs. Professionally Managed: An HOA Board's Decision Framework

  Most boards inherit their management arrangement and keep it by inertia. A framework for deciding self-management versus a management company — cost done honestly, the fiduciary duty that never transfers, and the hybrid most boards overlook.

• How Small HOAs Can Self-Manage (Without a Management Company)

  Below roughly 100 units, a professional management contract often costs more than it returns. The fiduciary, financial, and operational checklist a small board needs to self-manage well.

• Formal HOA Board Meeting Decorum and Rules of Order

  How to run an HOA board meeting that holds up — motions, seconds, votes, minutes, executive session, and the parliamentary rules most boards quietly get wrong.