The Bramblegate Watergate in NC
July 31, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster By now you know we scrape the web for interesting, compelling or downright odd stories about HOAs across the country. Here's one that barely rises above the fold: A Greensboro, North Carolina condominium HOA that apparently has gone to seed due to [...]
Addressing the Realtors Unite Conference
July 30, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster Lynn Boergerhoff and I have been invited to conduct two speaking sessions at the upcoming Realtors' Unite Conference in Brooklyn Park on September 18. The conference is described below: The biggest and boldest real estate conference in Minnesota is coming—are you ready? Our [...]
Road Runner, an HOA is After You
July 30, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster I grew up watching Bugs Bunny cartoons, and many people who know me well would likely say that it explains a lot. Some of my favorites, even in adulthood, are the old Wile E Coyote shorts where the Road Runner is constantly chased [...]
On Air with PRX about Ombudsman
July 27, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster Last week I was interviewed by PRX, a public radio source that describes itself thusly: PRX was launched in 2003 through a collaboration between the Station Resource Group and Atlantic Public Media, an inventive public radio production and training organization whose work also [...]
HOA vs. Data Center
July 25, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster Data Centers are going up across the country in rapid fashion. It sort of reminds me of the shopping mall construction craze of the 1980s and 1990s. And my my, that went well, didn't it? This time, these big data structures are not [...]
Is the Orlando HOA Market a Bellwether?
July 22, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster We are always scouting for HOA trends across the land, and the state that is seeing some significant seismic shifts of late is Florida, particularly around the Orlando area. During the "COVID years" there was an explosion of HOA buying, when people from [...]
