You were elected, you were congratulated, and nobody handed you anything. This is the list.
Ask for these documents
The declaration, the bylaws and the rules. The current budget and the most recent financial statements. The most recent reserve fund study and its funding plan. The insurance certificates. The minutes of the last twelve board meetings. The list of contracts in force with their renewal and cancellation dates.
That is the whole file. A board that cannot produce it in a week has a records problem you have now inherited.
Do your training
Ontario directors take the Condominium Authority of Ontario course; Florida directors complete a state approved certification or file the written statement the statute allows. Both are counted from the day you took office, and in both places the consequence of missing it falls on you personally rather than on the corporation.
Read the minutes backwards
Start with the most recent and read back. You are looking for decisions that were taken and never closed out, matters that keep reappearing, and any spending that has no decision behind it.
Check three things before your first vote
Whether the corporation is current on its statutory filings. Whether the reserve contribution in the budget matches the funding plan. Whether any contract renews automatically before the next meeting.
Each of those has cost a board money in the month after an election somewhere this year.
Understand what you are personally exposed to
Directors and officers liability covers you for decisions made honestly and in the corporation's interest. It does not cover you for failing to do the thing the statute puts on you by name, and it does not cover you for a conflict you did not disclose.
Disclose interests the first time, in writing, in the minutes. It is the cheapest protection available to you.