The November/ December 2008 issue of the newsletter will be sent out soon. In this issue:
-South Coast HOA – 20th Anniversary Meeting
-Understanding your Association’s Financial Statements
-The Art of Delivery: Mail, Posting or Personal Delivery
-Federal Pool Safety Act Affects HOA Pools/Spas
-2009 Condominium Bluebooks in Stock
Several additional items of interest:
1) Bluebooks are in and being sent out [...]

Law and Legislative Update Meeting – will be held Wednesday, Jan 28 at 7PM at a place still to be determined. Attorneys James Smith and David Loewenthal will present new legislation effective in 2009, significant court cases from 2008 and current legal topics of interest. Watch for email updates and newsletters for additional [...]

An article on graffiti removal was posted today on the Santa Barbara Independent website including instructions on how to remove certain types of graffiti. Some associations have reported increasing problems with this. The link to the article is posted below:
The Santa Barbara Independent – Goleta’s Graffiti Fighters

The 2008 Condominimum Bluebooks will be shipped to all renewed members during the week of December 17. If you haven’t renewed for 2008, please remit your payment of $60 as soon as possible. Reminder notices were sent out on December 15. A limited number of extra Bluebooks are available – $18.00 members/$22.50 nonmembers.

I have been asked to compile data concerning the impact of Goleta Water proposed meter fee adjustments to affected associations. I would like as many associations to reply by May 7 so that I can draft a response to the district. Some preliminary calculations submitted by associations show an increase of $6 to [...]

The Santa Barbara News-Press acknowledged the work of the South Coast Homeowners Association in a feature article in the Business section on Sunday, April 16, 2006. The resulting article presented a concise description of our activities and why we exist to serve area homeowner associations. A number of small associations are in the planning stages, [...]

The February 12th issue of the Santa Barbara News-Press contained an article about an area homeowner association filing a lawsuit against its former property manager. One of the issues raised in the suit concerned the use of a commingled trust account for all the associations managed by the management company. We ran an article in [...]