MyCoop tips to running a successful tenant association
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The document provides essential tips for starting a building association, emphasizing the importance of defining priorities, establishing clear communication, and being inclusive. It highlights the need for accurate information, sticking to a mission, and maintaining specific agendas during meetings. Additionally, it encourages connecting with elected officials and celebrating victories to foster community involvement.
MyCoop tips to running a successful tenant association
- 1. For Building Associations Helpful Tips to starting your building association
- 2. Tip #1: Define building and neighbor priorities This is the most important thing to establish even before the creation of a TA.
- 3. Tip #2: Establish Clear Communication Channel From the beginning, set up a smooth and steady line of communication from the association to the tenants and back. You can set up a mycoop discussion and invite neighbors to participate. All of your files can be uploaded on myccop, accessible to all who sign up.
- 4. Tip #3: Be Inclusive Inform your neihgbors that a discsussion has been created and invite everyone to join. Everyone won’t join at first and that’s okay, extending the option is what matters. Use mycoop.com invitations if you have everyone’s email adress or ask us for our building kit, containing welcome fliers and fun facts.
- 5. Tip #4: Make Sure You Have The Facts Connect with knowledgeable advisers, and be selective about what internet sources you quote and pass on to tenants. Depending on the problems you are facing, consider getting advice from engineers, lawyers, elected officials, architects. Invite experts to meetings. You can't have all the answers but you can bring in someone who does. You can also check our blog to find common issues and areas of miscommunication. Lack of information and facts can doom your association.
- 6. Tip #5: Stick to the mission Write a mission down and blow it up to poster size to post at every meeting. When the meeting strays point to the mission to keep everyone focused.
- 7. Tip #6: Keep agendas specific Never have a meeting without an agenda. Democracy can get unruly.
- 8. Tip #7: Try To Have Fun Always leave time in a meeting to have refreshments and shmooze. Don't just meet when there's a problem – building a sense of community when things are going well, will pay off when the inevitable crisis comes along.
- 9. Tip #8: Connect with elected officials To find out who represents you on the city council, or state assembly. These posts were created to help residents and these individuals can be your allies.
- 10. Tip #9: Celebrate Victories and be generous with your “thank yous." Everyone wants to be appreciated so be liberal with your public thank yous— It will encourage more people to join the effort, and the broadest possible participation is what a building association is all about.