December 2016

INSIDE CONNECTION ANGELA KAVANAUGH | DIRECTOR, CONFERENCE & PROGRAMS

We hope you enjoyed the show!

H opefully you were able to attend this year’s Conference & Expo held on Wednesday, October 26th at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset. This year we chose to move the tradeshow to a weekday and the move resulted in this year’s CAI-NJ tradeshow being our largest and most attended ever with a record number of more than 1,100 people walking the floor gathering advice and important resources for their communities from the 167 exhibitors. It was an exciting day and the energy was high as everyone waited for the drawing of the hourly winners of the $1,000 prizes. The winners for the day were Marvin Brother of Concordia Homeowners Association, Linda Kinzinger of Windsor Haven HOA, Bruce Gudin, Esq. of Ehrlich, Petriello, Gudin & Plaza, P.C., Jeff Lincow of RestoreCore and Alex Husarenko of Superior Distribution. Congratulations to all of the winners. Four educational programs were presented. One for each of our member representation groups, community board mem- bers, community property managers and business partners, in addition to the always well attended Legislative Update. Testimonials from some of our attendees “CAI NJ continues to bring relevant topics to the Lecture Series at the Conference and Expo which addressed all attendees. At the program of a One Hour Board Meeting, managers and board members were able to learn time-sav- ing tips to help assist with a productive meeting. The Ethics and Confidentiality program, showed managers and their board members how to identify certain problems which can occur within a community. The discussion was inter- active and allowed for solutions to be discussed. Last but certainly not least, the Legislative Updates on the Municipal Services reform, Mortgage Foreclosure reform, Manager

Licensing and Elections reform kept managers in touch with important legislation changes.” — Erin O’Reilly, CMCA, AMS, FirstService Residential. “The 2016 CAI-NJ Conference and Expo was a great success! The networking opportunities on Tuesday night were great. The quality of the traffic on the trade show floor was also great. Switching to the week days was a success for us!” — Jim Rademacher, CEO, Rezkom Enterprises, Inc. “As a board member of a condo association, I always look forward to the CAI-NJ Annual Conference & Expo. It allows me over the course of several hours to engage indus- try providers about their products and services as well as hear from well-known experts about the latest developments effecting common interest communities. This year’s expo had a lively atmosphere about it given it was held so close to Halloween. The drawing of $1,000 each to five lucky winners randomly drawn added to the excitement in the exhibition hall. As I observed the board attendees leaving at the expo’s close, there were smiling faces carrying fully packed event bags.” —Steve Kroll, Board Member of Fairways at Livingston. The Conference & Expo committee has already begun to plan the 2017 Conference & Expo. It will once again be at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset and is scheduled for Thursday, November 2, 2017. Mark your calendars and save the date. Information will be available shortly and booths will be available for purchase in early 2017. Your feedback is important to us. Please feel free to con- tact me at (609)588-0030 or angela@cainj.org with your ideas on what you would like to see incorporated in our tradeshow next year. n

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