About: Derek Greene

Nobody joins an HOA board expecting to knock on a neighbor's door about their dead lawn at 7 p.m. on a Tuesday. Or to read a violation letter aloud to someone sitting six feet away at a board meeting, arms crossed, clearly furious. Or to announce a...

The community your board serves today probably looks different from the one it served five years ago. More rental properties. Younger homeowners who barely glance at paper newsletters but respond to texts within minutes. Residents with fundamentally different daily schedules, different priorities, and different expectations for how they want to be communicated with....

When an HOA board proposes spending money on community improvements, the conversation often turns contentious fast. Residents see an assessment increase. The board sees a capital investment. Neither side is entirely wrong, and both sides are usually talking past each other.

The missing piece is almost always the business case,...

Your board has a member who still insists notices be mailed. Another who thinks everything should be decided in a Slack channel. One who's been governing this community since before half the current residents bought their homes. And one who moved in eighteen months ago with very specific ideas about how things should...