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Most people aren’t carrying much cash. The Federal Reserve says 76% had any cash on them at all last year, and the average amount was $69. That has to cover everything.

If your community has switched to cashless tipping, staff should know who can see their tips, what they hand over to set up a profile, and when the money lands: https://hubs.ly/Q04v7-F-0

Writing an HOA violation letter is the easy part. Keeping a record that still makes sense to the board three years from now is the hard part. We put together the six elements every notice should include, the escalation sequence, and three templates your board can copy today: https://hubs.ly/Q04tHlr40

Writing an HOA violation letter is the easy part. Keeping a record that still makes sense to the board three years from now is the hard part. We put together the six elements every notice should include, the escalation sequence, and three templates your board can copy today: https://hubs.ly/Q04s9Y9h0

The Emily Post Institute says to tip your doorman $15 to $80. Guides written for full-service buildings say $75 to $200 for the same person. Both are right, and neither tells a resident which one applies to them.

That gap is why holiday tipping generates the same round of questions at the front desk every November. Residents aren’t being cheap. They genuinely don’t know the norm for their building, and the guidance they find online was written for a different one.

Our new resident guide covers the range by role, what actually moves the number up or down, when to give it, and how tipping works when a building runs a pool as well as individual tipping side by side: https://hubs.ly/Q04rYV3W0

Summer is budget season for HOA boards. While everyone else is at the pool, someone's stuck with a spreadsheet, working out next year's dues.

We turned the whole process into a 5-step checklist for volunteer resident boards: review last year's actuals, fund the reserve, set the dues, and communicate it all to owners before the fall scramble.

Get the free checklist here: https://hubs.ly/Q04rkq2W0

Nobody decided to stop tipping the super. They just stopped carrying cash. TippingLink lets residents recognize building staff by card or bank transfer, staff keep 100% of their tips, and management stays out of the money. Set it up before the holidays: https://hubs.ly/Q04r8KJB0

You got elected to the HOA board. Congrats. Now: do you actually know what you're personally liable for?

Most new board members don't. They find out the hard way, usually right after a decision blows up. And "I didn't realize" isn't a defense that protects you or the association.

We put together a free guide to your first 90 days on a board: the three duties you now carry the day you're sworn in, the documents to read before you vote on anything, and the financial decisions that can quietly end in lawsuits.

Grab it here: https://hubs.ly/Q04r9ltJ0

Most boards don’t find out a unit is on Airbnb until a neighbor complains. By then you’ve lost track of who has a key and whether a rule your owners voted for is being broken. Short-term rental tracking isn't surveillance; it's the basic recordkeeping that lets a board enforce its own rules fairly. Here’s what that looks like in practice: https://hubs.ly/Q04qFpwZ0

Every December, the holiday cards pile up at the front desk with the doorman’s name on them. The porter who mopped the lobby at dawn, the handyman who chased the leak on floor 14, the night super who covered while everyone slept? Far fewer envelopes, if any.

Tipping follows visibility, not contribution. For property managers, that is a retention problem hiding in plain sight, and it lands on your least-visible, hardest-to-replace staff.

Our new piece breaks down why the gap happens, what the data says, and how tip pooling spreads holiday recognition across the whole team instead of just the front desk. Worth a read before you plan for the season: https://hubs.ly/Q04q1TXq0

Your condo or strata board is about to pick software, and most roundup lists are written for U.S. managers. Canadian condo and strata boards have different rules, different deadlines, and a French-language obligation in Quebec. Here’s a buyer’s guide written for how Canada actually governs communities: https://hubs.ly/Q04pLNpF0