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and reviewed, and ultimately voted on. Requesting information or chang- ing the RFP mid-process only confuses the vendors and takes valuable time away from the manager’s other duties. It is also detrimental to seek proposals just to continue to table them while adding additional scopes of work. Difficulties also arise when boards are at odds, refuse to “agree to dis- agree,” create separation or alliances with other board members, and forget that their goal and focus should be on maintaining the community and running the association. As they say, a house divided… Managers play an important role in bridging those board member disagreements and finding consensus. Read and under- stand the governing documents of the community. Many times, although you CONT I NU E S ON PAGE 38

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