Showing Articles from the category 'Feature'
Financial Transparency and Building Trust with Owners
Condo Living: A Manager's Perspective
Feature || Maria Finoro, RCM
Before one can discuss how to build trust with condo owners, trust must first be established amongst the individual board members and then between the board and the property management company.
An Owner’s Guide to the Declaration, By-laws and Condo Rules
Condo Living: A Manager's Perspective
Feature || Laura (Glithero) Gurr
The condo corporation’s governing documents (the Declaration, By-laws and Rules) each serve a unique purpose. When operating well, these documents set the stage to allow the condo corporation to grow and adapt to any necessary changes. As an owner, understanding these documents will help you know how your condo corporation operates and what your role and responsibilities are within the condo corporation and the community.
The Impact of Governance and Management on Condominium Lifestyle
Condo Living: A Manager's Perspective
Feature || Vadim Koyen
Condo communities are often at the mercy of the board, which governs regulations and policies, and the property management companies who carry out the orders of the day. Collectively their job is to ensure the owners’ right to quiet enjoyment while also considering the type of lifestyle the condo community provides. When the two parties fail to manage the property effectively, its value, amenities, social aspects, and the residents’ lifestyle is negatively impacted.
Compliance and Mental Health Disability in Condominiums
Diversity and Its Challenges
Feature || Deborah Howden
People suffering from mental illness in a condominium setting, as in any community, represent a diverse group. They are persons experiencing many different types of health conditions, including anxiety, depression, phobias, hoarding, paranoia, schizophrenia, and dementia – and the list goes on. Each disability condition can range from mild to severe. Some people with mental illness require accommodation within the condominium setting – many others do not.
Condo Culture: Crossing Global Borders to Strengthen Neighbourly Bonds
Diversity and Its Challenges
Feature || Maryan Florio, RCM
Understanding your building’s cultural demographics is essential to build a sense of community, especially if there is a heavy concentration of residents in the building with ties to the same culture or region of the world.
Creating Meaningful Diversity in Your Workplace Can Lead to Better Business
Diversity and Its Challenges
Feature || Brian Bosscher
This could be the year that companies really start taking active steps to improve diversity in the workplace, but change won’t happen on its own.
Diversity and Inclusion in Condominiums
Diversity and Its Challenges
Feature || Stephanie Sutherland, MSc
The many advantages of condominium living mean that this lifestyle is appealing to a variety of different individuals. This diversity of condominium owners and occupants has the potential to create wonderful, well-rounded communities, but it can also present challenges, particularly when there is a lack of understanding about differences between the various populations.
Diversity: My Own Journey
Diversity and Its Challenges
Feature || Ruki Mohamedbhai, RCM
The issue of systemic racism needs to acknowledged and confronted. It challenges our perceived roles and makes us complicit in what is happening today. Whether an organization or society, everyone plays a key role in accepting, and most importantly, embracing our differences, regardless of your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or political beliefs.
Embracing Diversity
Diversity and Its Challenges
Feature || Bill Lang, RCM
Condominium corporations and directors should encourage more diversity among the owners who run for their boards. Currently, people from minority backgrounds are underrepresented in board positions. Too few are even remotely interested in running for open positions.
The Law Around Service Animals in Ontario
Diversity and Its Challenges
Feature || Denise Lash
In this article, we outline the service animal laws that condominiums must follow in responding to accommodation requests and the various legal definitions that apply to service animals in Ontario.
Through Another’s Eyes: Helping Diverse Condominium Communities Thrive!
Diversity and Its Challenges
Feature || Kirsten Dale, RCM
Few moments of my career will ever compare to the day I arrived at work to a protest outside of the management office because of Christmas decorations.
The Impending Deadline for Transitional General Licensees
The RCM Advantage
Feature || Dean McCabe
The impending deadline for Transitional General Licensees to complete the transition and obtain their General License has created a fear that many experienced managers will choose to walk away from the profession rather than complete the educational requirements.
The Importance of Maintaining Membership
The RCM Advantage
Feature || Henry Dwinnell
Retaining both my ACMO membership and the RCM designation has been, and continues to be, important to me and my career for a variety of reasons.
Validation
Leader of the Year
Feature || Harold Cipin
I received my RCM in May of 2000. Looking back, it was challenging and time-consuming to balance going back to school with learning a new job and raising a young family. But in the end, it was all worth it because obtaining my RCM has validated my career, and a true career was what I was looking for.
What Does Being an RCM Mean to You?
The RCM Advantage
Feature || Michael Trendota, William Colucci, Jasmina Bahtijarevic
We asked three condominium managers what it means to hold their RCM designation.
