Community Association Matters

  During one of our previous podcast and blog, we discussed how to properly vet your vendors to help ensure that you have picked someone reliable and who will execute a timely and professional job for the association.  But who manages the vendor?  Who inspects and creates the punch lists throughout the job?  Who checks up on inspections and the results of those inspections?  In short, who supervises the supervisor?  In the end, the vendor will be the expert and it is imperative that the right company is chosen for the job.  While Board members and property managers are not project managers, there is a list of things that they can do to help keep the project in question moving along. Meet with the vendor often to discuss what was completed and what is next.  The vendor should provide to you an understanding of the work, which was just completed and what to expect next.  You should be able to track the work and look for proper workmanship.  Did they clean up after themselves?  Were they timely, did they proper