Board Seminar

Monday, October 5th, 2009 @ 6:00 P.M. at the Rancho Senior Center: 3 Ethel Coplen Way, Irvine, CA.

Registration, Hors d’ oeuvres and Mini Trade Show - 6:00 P.M.
Program – 6:30 to 8:00 P.M.
Topic: Water - How much is enough?
Guest Speakers: Jack Rush from O'Connell Landscape

There will be vendors representing 10 different trades, so come out and ask these contractors all of your questions.

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This seminar is free and seats are limited, so please contact Elva Gonzalez @ (949) 261-8282, or email: to reserve your spot.

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.