A Maryland court recently entered a $1M judgment against the Tomes Landing Condominiums and its management company, MRA Property Management, for providing misleading budgets to prospective purchasers. Read more here.
In the live Q&A session after a one of last week's webinars, one participant asked when it was best to perform a Reserve Study for their association... suggesting that he thought it would be best in the last quarter of a major component's life.
In the Reserve Study industry, the Percent Funded range of 70-130% is described as the "strong" range. So why shoot to be 100% Funded and not the lower (more attainable) target of 70% Funded?
I recently had a client have us investigate the contribution differences between our recommendation to Fully Fund their Reserves, and only Baseline Fund their Reserves.
According to National Reserve Study Standards (see complete standards here), an evaluation of Reserve Fund Strength is one of the three primary results from a Reserve Study (the current component list, the current strength of the Reserve Fund, and the current recommendation for Reserve contributions).
I was recently contacted by an association explaining their strategy of not funding their Reserves according to the recommendation in their Reserve Study. They looked at that recommendation, then decided on a smaller contribution rate that they felt was reasonable (about half, they explained).
