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 [...]
Walking and Talking About Trees
July 19, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster I honestly don't know anyone in my life who understands more about trees than Ron Zillmer. I met Ron in late 2024, the owner and founder of Legacy-Trees. And it turns out despite his tremendous tree knowledge (of which I have little), we [...]
Eden Prairie HOA Resident Battles Mold
July 18, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster Fox 9 Minneapolis ran a story last night about an Eden Prairie HOA resident who had mold popping up inside of her home, and it was in such a magnitude that the residents fled the dwelling due to alarming levels of it. The [...]
Can’t Pigs Fly? Not in This HOA
July 16, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster I must admit I sometimes get a little exhausted reading about HOA problems across the country, as they seem countless and quite varied. One caught my (pig's) eye, though, about a Kansas pig that is a center of an HOA controversy. Yup. It's [...]
