In today’s community management
world, we are all stretched out pretty thin having to deal with board meetings,
emails, classes, seminars, inspections, vendor meetings, and whatever you can
squeeze in to what has never been a 9 to 5 job.
It’s amazing how budget season, pool pass season, and snow removal
season all start to blend in to a year-round, ongoing process.
In our company, Tidewater
Property Management, we sum it up in three words – Progress in Motion. It’s the
non-stop plugging away, advancing, and pushing forward and onward that keeps
the momentum going and building in order to be successful in this industry, in
this day and age.
With this being said, it is
important to make a difference when and where you can. At the end of July, I was excited to see an
email from the Chapter, subject line:
CAI MENTOR PROGRAM! I am writing this article as an endorsement to this
effort and the folks who willingly volunteer to be a Mentor. You see, while leading the Membership
Committee last year, I and a team of dedicated volunteers helped create Club
CAI. I am saying this because I am proud
of Club CAI and its mission – it is the result of countless hours of
brainstorming and planning. It was a
difficult decision to hand over the reins to Ted Porter of PuroClean, but I
was happy with the groundwork we laid and I knew that there would certainly be
people that would volunteer as Mentors and that Club CAI would be a success
with Ted’s brilliant leadership. With my
crazy schedule, it was all I could do to help get Club CAI up and running. But now, its success is due to the support of
the CAI Chapter, the Board, the Membership Committee and the Mentors. These volunteer members are available now to
provide the guidance that anyone in our industry, new or experienced, can take
advantage of.
With a career in this industry,
it is important to gain as much knowledge as possible and to stay on top of the
ever-evolving laws and standards. That’s
the beauty of the CAI seminars and classes.
Take advantage of them – you can’t get the industry-specific information
from anywhere else. But when your
schedule is booked with board meetings, emails, inspections, and vendor
meetings and you need answers quickly, call a Mentor from Club CAI. They can offer you expertise on issues from
accounting to insurance to association law.
Some of us may be competitors,
but at the end of the day, we are all in this together!
