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Replacement Reserve Costs vs. “Total Insurable Value”

A Reserve Study helps the Board assemble a responsible budget to care for the Association’s major common area repair and replacement responsibilities, and disclose the Association’s Reserve Fund status to its members. The individual projects listed in the Reserve Study (roofing, painting, asphalt, elevator, etc.) are very different from an Association’s “total insurable value”.

Reserve Funds – How best to account?

“How do I reserve? Let me count the ways” is not exactly what Elizabeth Barrett Browning had in mind when she penned her famous poem about love, but if you have 37 different Reserve components, how many Reserve contributions do you make and track each month? One or 37? There is a good answer.

What Exactly is Percent Funded?

What is Percent Funded? Learn how HOA boards calculate reserve fund strength using Reserve Fund Balance and Fully Funded Balance.

Capital Improvements vs. Reserve Expenses

What is the difference between a Capital Improvement and a Reserve project? Or more specifically, when can a Capital Improvement be more properly considered as a Reserve expense? This question becomes important to Association-governed communities s they consider what funds can be used

Can An Association Move Surplus Funds to Reserves

Associations that have excess funds at the end of the year face the decision if and how those funds can be moved to Reserves, or if they must be rolled over to the Operating Fund the following year.

We have a Reserve Study… Now what do we do with it?

Your reserve study is fundamentally a budget/cash flow model and road map for significant future expenses. It is a planning tool.