The winter storm is blowing through the Denver area! Be Careful out there! A few things to keep in your vehicle..... carry a warm extra blanket carry water have plenty of gas keep an extra set of gloves/hats/scarves keep a good ice scraper or broom remember to take along your good snow-trekking winter boots. Stay safe
From Board Meeting to BBQ For most, the work-life balancing act leaves little time to build community. However, community associations have a built in infrastructure to help promote socializing beyond the board meeting. With social media, we live in an atmosphere where personal interaction is no longer necessary to stay connected. This makes it harder
Hammersmith Management was proud to participate in the 9th Annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. In great philanthropic spirit, a group of Hammersmith Management team members dedicated their Sunday morning to completing the annual 5k walk. HMI team members who were unable to attend the event participated by making donations. As an initiative of
As we gear up for the final quarter of 2014 and look toward the calendar turning to 2015, changes are taking place at Hammersmith Management. The latest change is with HMI's banking partner - Pacific Premier Bank. Pacific Premier specializes in meeting the banking needs of associations and community management companies. Because Pacific Premier has
The final numbers are in from this month's 5th Annual Community Can-Can hosted by HindmanSanchez. 31,667 pounds of food were donated by the eight teams of community association management companies across Colorado, including Hammersmith Management. The Can-Can is a canned food drive and sculpture challenge, with the sculptures being created out of the cans that
Community Associations Institute recently released their 2014 National Research by Public Opinion Strategies. The findings again affirm what surveys have been telling us for the last 10 years - most residents are very satisfied, dare we even say happy, with their community association experience. The misconception about common interest communities stems from a) Selective media coverage. Often
Hammersmith is pleased to have another article published in the Community Associations Institute (CAI) Rocky Mountain Chapter magazine, Common Interests. Our latest article discusses the value of Vendor Relationships. In the first part of our three part blog series we will discuss Familiarity. In our personal lives, we often visit the same barber, shop at the same
Community associations are a representative form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people. Much of our country is based on the principles of representative democracy. It starts with organizations like community associations and progresses through our schools boards, city governments, county governments, state governments—all the way to the federal government.
Over the last few years, the subject of licensing for Community Managers has been a “hot topic” – both nationally and on the local level. Hammersmith Management has long been a proponent of licensing, believing that every association deserves to be represented by educated, experienced, and professional Community Managers who have invested in their careers.
Courtesy of Hindman Sanchez, Hammersmith Management has become aware of a current scam being perpetuated on owners in community associations. This scam takes place in the form of a mailing which owners receive indicating that if they are paying HOA fees through a bill-pay service, they should “pay particular attention to the remittance instructions. Our
