If you decide to purchase a condominium, a town home or a single family residential home in a planned community, you may suddenly find yourself obligated to pay monthly fees or dues, called assessments, as a mandatory member of the association that represents the community. This association is governed by a Board of Directors who are typically elected by the members of the committee, and this Board makes final decisions in regards to just about everything.

Homeowners Associations are becoming more prevalent in communities and neighborhoods throughout the country. With that, more homeowners are finding themselves living in HOAs and serving on a homeowner's association board. However, many new board members don't realize what is involved with serving on the board of their HOA and what is expected of them.

  Homeowner association management involves management of a large number of households. An association of home owners is usually an elected body headed by a board of directors or any other board who actually looks after the job of management on behalf of all the members. But these people are no professional managers of properties. So they are not always competent enough to look after all the details that go into a successful management of an association.