HOA Directors Cannot Conduct Business Electronically

Advances in technology have made it easier and easier for people to instantly receive and respond to information electronically via email and text messaging. These methods of communicating have become so engrained in people’s personal and business lives that it is only natural that the practice of communicating via email and text messaging has carried over into their exchanges of information as members of the boards of directors of homeowners associations. Many board members assume that such exchanges of information promote their job performance and facilitate the operations of their homeowners association. While that may be true, depending on the nature of the information that is being exchanged, that practice may very well be prohibited by state laws and/or the association’s governing documents.