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When a Board Member's Buddy Is the Contractor: Handling Conflict of Interest Without Blowing Up the Board
Every HOA board has had this conversation. A director clears their throat and says, "My brother-in-law has been doing roofs for twenty years — should we just have him take a look?" The room gets quiet. Half the board is grateful for a familiar name. The other half already knows how this story ends. I've watched this exact moment play out more times than I can count, on both sides of the table — as an owner's rep and as a sitting board member myself. The contractor is sometime
dhaconstructionman
Jun 23 min read
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