Why This Happened: The “Condo Drought” For nearly two decades, Oregon faced a sharp decline in condominium construction. Industry stakeholders—including developers, builders, and insurers—argued that the state’s previous construction defect liability (CDL) laws were too restrictive. Specifically, a 10-year “statute…
If you’ve ever sat in a condo board meeting where people were talking over each other, or where the meeting drifted for hours without a decision, you know the value of order. Robert’s Rules of Order is simply a standardized…
I was sitting with a board member—let’s call her Sarah—last Wednesday at our coffee session. She was tired. She’s balancing a career, a home, and the heavy responsibility of serving as a condominium association president. She was sharing a struggle…
PORTLAND, OR — For over a decade, the playbook for the board at one 24-unit wood-frame condo community in Northeast Portland was simple: keep monthly dues locked at a crowd-pleasing $275. Whenever a professional reserve study warned that it was time…
The standard operating procedure for condominium associations has permanently shifted. For decades, many communities survived on a reactive, “kick-the-can” approach to capital repairs—keeping monthly assessments low and pushing off major maintenance until absolute failure occurred. Today, a powerful alignment of…
