
16 April 2015 | 2 replies
Footnote: even before the licensing law was fully implemented the Community Association Institute (CAI) had private meetings with leadership in DORA and with several legislators to craft changes to the law: proposed Bill 15-1343.

11 April 2015 | 6 replies
I have a script that I pulled from one of Michael Quarles threads that I could try to craft into a policies and procedures manual.

26 December 2016 | 151 replies
There are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many different ways to work and enjoy this craft...and so many ways to make money.

20 April 2015 | 20 replies
Some of the best craft beer and food in the area.

15 April 2015 | 1 reply
The business model to develop Community Association Manager (CAM) licensing legislation (and other HOA legislation): 1) legislators consult with the Community Association Institute (CAI)) to craft a Bill aimed at mitigating abusive practices of property managers who are the very folks the CAI represents 2) CAI lobbyist and their CAI “dependable” legislators become Bill sponsors 3) the Bill is assigned to Committees with CAI “dependable” legislators 4) the Bill becomes law with little to no home owner input, full of promoting CAI interests, and heavy on fees and costs and processes imposed on CAMs and 5) the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) implements licensing rules highly reflective of CAI efforts but fail to even contain explicit language for CAMs to obey State law or an HOAs governing laws or for CAMs to report observed violation of the law thus ensuring oversight is empty from the home owner’s perspective.

13 April 2015 | 17 replies
There's lot's of properties like this which is why I don't like anything that old unless it's been owner occupied and meticulously maintained.

18 April 2015 | 5 replies
FCI is certainly not the only player however they have crafted their programs to be reasonably well-suited for the smaller note investor.

1 February 2016 | 13 replies
The best craft beer brewpub near Naval Base Everett is the Scuttlebutt, about a mile north of the main gate in the Port of Everett.

9 October 2022 | 11 replies
This whole process just made me feel like I was being sent down someone's marketing funnel and that his initial pitch video detailing his struggles, angst and pain points was just a carefully crafted story line as a lead in to his "products".

5 October 2015 | 3 replies
A few examples I have been theory-crafting are affordable student housing, foreclosure relief programs, and new graduate housing (these are mostly from personal experience, I am sure there are plenty of other markets out there and I'm sure that there are many markets that are yet to be created).