HOA Management, What Designation is Acceptable?
People gravitate to my site for all kinds of reasons. I get a lot of email questions about what it takes to be CID (common interest development) manager, and complaints about managers acting badly, or not knowing what they are doing (at least in the eyes of the beholder – the owner who sent the email). HOAs are CIDs in California by the way. I have articles on my website about what is required, and there are two very active organizations that serve and train managers listed on my resource page (CACM AND CAI). I have developed a class that would satisfy the legal aspects of what is required to call oneself a “Common Interest Development Manager”; however, (1) I have not had a lot of time to promote or even teach it and (2) Attendees have to come to me with a group proposal to get me to take 8 hours off from my everyday lawyering to teach; and (3) My class does not satisfy the overall 30 hours of course training needed for the right to call oneself a “CID Manager”. Here is the most recen
