Join us in Northbrook for our next ACTHA event! Connect with board members, unit owners and quality vendors who serve community associations as well as leading industry experts addressing topics impacting today’s condo, townhome and homeowners associations.

Exchange ideas with association board members

Find Solutions to the biggest issues impacting community associations

Meet representatives from legal, financial services, construction firms and more

Schedule of Events:

7:30 a.m.: Registration and Breakfast
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Concurrent Education Sessions

• Condo Act for Dummies – Get Smart
  This session will dissect the basics of the ACT and reinforce the items of major importance. Since the Palm decision it is more critical than ever to understand the proper procedures for governance, meetings, notices, and more. Also covered will be learning the difference between the ACT, your declarations, bylaws and rules and regulations and their order of authority.
• Are You Ready for Winter?
  It’s time to refer to your checklist and make sure your snow contract is in place, your insurance is renewed and covers all the nasty weather problems like slip and falls, systems are winterized and such. What do you do about those vacant units, gutters clogged with leaves, avoiding ice dams, for starters?

9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Trade Show

10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.: Mini Education sessions (on trade show floor)

Reducing Liability for the Multi-Family Property

10:45 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.: Mini Education sessions (on trade show floor)

Benefits of Native Landscaping

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Concurrent Education Sessions

• Don’t Be a Fool – Rules & Regs
  Board members need to carefully review and do an assessment of your association’s Rules and Regulations. Board members frequently assume things are in the Rules only find out they are not. How do you amend them? Are they consistently applied and enforceable? Have they been updated to conform to changes in the law?
• How to Fund Your Project – It’s Always About the Money
  Whether planned or unexpected, there comes a time when you are faced with a large project to renovate, improve, or replace. Various methods of funding large projects include items, such as, raising regular assessments over time to build reserves, approving a special assessment, and applying for a bank loan. Each involves different conditions and requirements and should consider the needs of the owners.