Data Center Down
March 19, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster We've been watching the data center incursion across the metro, as they seem to want to crop up in places that crowd the lifestyles of HOAs that are also exploding into empty farm fields across the state. The latest one, and now a [...]
Alternative HOA Legislation SF4035
March 19, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster There's a bevy of HOA reform bills coursing through St. Paul. Frankly it's hard to keep up. The largest and possibly most controversial is SF1750, which cleared a House committee yesterday and is on its way to Judiciary. HOALN provided written testimony against [...]
SF 1750 Clears Committee
March 18, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster I watched the live session the House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee meeting this morning, and the author, Kristin Bahner, DFL, Maple Grove, entered an "amendment to the amendment" to SF1750, the long and windy bill that seeks to [...]
HOA Debit Card Run Amok
March 16, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster Does your HOA have a debit card attached to its operating account? If the answer is yes, you may want to think again and consider it a really dumb practice. A St. Louis County, Missouri, board leader (and now formerly, thereof) is in [...]
A Blizzardy Blizzard
March 15, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster Beware the Ides of March. It brings snowstorms. If you're reading this from the quiet and comfortable confines of your HOA inside the metro area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, you're watching snow-maggedon unfold through your living room or kitchen window. This storm has [...]
Fly Those Flags
March 12, 2026 | Mark Luis Foster The drumbeat of HOA legislation is picking up in St. Paul. Lynn and I spent the morning at the state capitol yesterday and met with various legislators and other HOA industry experts about the flurry of bills under consideration. You can read a [...]
