Board Workshops

Total Propery Management is pleased to announce an ongoing series of Board of Directors workshops designed to provide continuing HOA education to our client Board members.  These workshops are held at the offices of Total Propery Management, 2 Corporate Park, Suite 200 Irvine and are customized to the interests and needs of our individual Boards.

Topics include, "So Now You're on the Board - Can You Spell Fiduciary",  "Budgeting 101 - Where Will All the Money Go", "Financials - Understanding the Mystery of Money", "Facilities - What Does the Crack in the Wall Mean?" and many others.

Please contact your Managing Agent or Phil Young at to schedule a topic.

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Board Seminars

Total Propery Management periodically holds seminars for our client Board members with timely topics to encourage dialog and provide pertinent information that allows them to understand the issues facing HOA's. Past seminars have included changes in the California Civil Code and Federal statues, Collection Processes and Procedures, Water Conservation and Landscape Practices and many others. Guest lectures are invited to address the attendees beginning at 6:00 p.m. and lasting approximately two hours. Refreshments and drinks are provided. A notice is provided to our client Boards two months in advance so that schedules can be confirmed.

Comprehensive training courses are available to community association leaders.

A Brief Explanation of Community Associations

Three features make community association homes different from traditional forms of homeownership.

1) You share ownership of common land and have access to facilities such as swimming
pools that often are not affordable any other way.

2) You automatically become a member of a community association and typically must abide
by covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&Rs).

3) You will pay an "assessment" (a regular fee, often monthly, that is used for the upkeep of the common areas and other services and amenities).

There are many advantages to living in this kind of development. The community usually features attractive combinations of well-designed homes and landscaped open spaces. The houses may even cost less than traditional housing due to more efficient use of land. Parks, pools and other amenities, often too expensive for you to own alone, can be yours through shared ownership. So now you have a chance to own and enjoy the pool, tennis court, or other recreational facilities that may have been unaffordable previously. What's more, you won't have direct responsibility for maintenance, so you won't have to clean the pool, fix the tennis nets, and you may not even have to mow your lawn. But that doesn't mean you'll never have to think about it.

The community association operates and maintains these shared facilities. Of course, you'll pay your share of the expenses and, as an association member, you'll have a voice in the association's decisions.