Board Academy
Board Academy
Short, practical guides for volunteers who took a board seat and were handed no manual. Read them here, or work through them inside the product beside the job they belong to.
Guide library
8 guides
A special assessment without a revolt
How to raise a large one time levy so owners understand it, the alternatives were genuinely priced, and the vote is not the first anyone heard of it.Budget season, step by step
The order to do budget work in, so the reserve contribution, the fee change and the owner notice all land where the statute expects them.Handling an angry owner
How to answer the owner who is furious and partly right, without conceding what the board cannot concede or making the corporation a defendant.How to read your condo's financial statements
A treasurer's tour of the statements a self managed board sees each month: which four numbers matter, and the three that mislead almost everybody.Running a board meeting that ends on time
Why volunteer board meetings run long, and the small number of changes that reliably fix it without anyone feeling cut off.The first 30 days as a new director
What to read, what to ask for, and what to check before you vote on anything, written for a volunteer who has just been elected.What your insurance actually covers
The four policies a corporation carries, the gap between the corporation's policy and an owner's, and the certificate detail vendors get wrong.Your reserve fund study, explained
What a reserve study is actually saying, why percent funded is not a grade, and how to read the funding plan a board is asked to adopt.
Boundary
What this is not
It is not the training your jurisdiction requires. Ontario directors take the Condominium Authority of Ontario course and Florida directors take a state approved certification course, and neither can be replaced by anything on this page. Board Butler tracks those deadlines; it does not deliver those courses.
Everything here is the other kind of learning: how to read the statements in front of you, how to run a meeting that ends, how to handle the owner who is angry and right.
The playbooks are in the product
Every guide here has a matching workflow inside Board Butler, beside the job it belongs to, so nobody has to remember what they read.