ICommon Interest Communities "CIC" (Condominium, Cooperative, Single Family & Townhouse Homeowner Associations) are the standard in community housing development in the United States and globally. It is estimated that in the U.S. alone, more than 90 million American live in a community homeowners association.
The issue and opportunity we face today is no known U.S. educational or vocational programs presently providing Residential Community Manager education or training. What we are facing is the retirement of the first generation of property management company owners most of which came over from commercial property management and since we don't train managers there are is a sever shortage of managers even untrained ones to help these communities which the responsibility of community management. In the whole commercial property management and residential community management are very different. When one consider that areas like Reston VA, or Columbia MD are private communities the scope of their responsibility of their managers is matched only by those of city managers.
So how many managers do we need? Given the shear number of CICs the potential on the low end is 20 thousand jobs over the next five years. The number is now known since no one has ever looked into this matter. The base salaries of managers run for entry level high 20's to established managers making upper 80's. We also expect that our graduates will receive a higher wage based upon training and their skills learned while in service to the county. We also in-vision that some of these graduates will start their community management companies and would expect them to make owner's wages.
We have been compiling a program to be deployed initial as a two year curriculum in Community Colleges . This curriculum that will ensure that our graduates have the competency, education and understanding of the community they will manage. With extra elements like community emergency response team "CERT" and social media/crisisdata training our Veteran graduates will have management companies ready and waiting to say we have just hired the best trained, highest character, most qualified residential community manger in the world.
We believe the same skills that have enabled our troops with deal with a diverse and often foreign population in extreme situations will ensure that they can handle Condo or HOA board meetings and the days to day responsibilities for helping homeowners run their communities. This is a natural extension since the U.S. has many home ownership programs that are placing these Veterans into homes that fall within a CIC and not having a qualified manager in their community is ultimately hurting them, the community and the U.S. housing market.
We have presented this Mayor Vince Gray in the District of Columbia to establish the first program in the District's community college and we are actively trying to engage the members of congress, the Obama Administration, Defense Department and Department of Veterans affairs. As well as the CIC themselves and professionals in the industry. Our Community Manager Program core idea is to find and train veterans to take up the mantle of becoming a residential community managers. Plus our communities deserve to have the most trained, researched, battle tested personal as their manager -Right |
Ċ ď intercommassoc@gmail.com, Feb 17, 2011 8:52 AM
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