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		<title>June 10, 2009 Board Meeting &#8212; Painting Decision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Talltree South Board met on June 10, 2009, and had a very productive meeting.  June was the first month that we had financial reports from Cardinal.  Delinquencies are up due to the transition; we will need to monitor the situation.
A request was made that management review signage on the property, to make it easier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Board Meeting May 27, 2009 &#8212; Cardinal On Board!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The May 27, 2009 meeting was later in the month than typical due to scheduling issues.  Starting in June, 2009, Board meetings will be held on the second Wednesday of each month.
The May meeting was the first meeting with Rick Balzhiser, our new property manager from Cardinal Management Group.  He produced an wonderfully complete board [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://condovoices.com/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Board Meeting April 16, 2009 &#8212; Insurance Presentation &amp; Management Company Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Insurance Presentation
At the April 16, 2009, the first part of the Talltree South Board Meeting was a presentation by John Manougian of Manougian Insurance Agency, Inc. made a presentation on condominium insurance and answered questions. He had a great deal of experience in the condominum insurance business.
Items he mentioned that I found interesting included the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://condovoices.com/?p=51</link>
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		<title>Pool Meeting &#8212; April 7, 2009 &#8212; Coordination!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On April 7, 2009, the South Fairfax Heritage Recreation Association B (&#8220;Rec B&#8221;, also known as the Pool Association) met at the Talltree Gardens offices.  Attendees included Dorothy Firsching, representing Talltree South (TTS), Ed Smith representing Talltree Gardens (TTG), Bob Shannon of TTS, Mindy Culver of TTS, Jason Smith, the TTS site office manager, Kathy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://condovoices.com/?p=50</link>
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		<title>Board Meeting March 19, 2009 &#8212; Moving Right Along</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the March 19, 2009 board meeting, we announced that we were moving back to full service management as of May 1, 2009. The contract is being finalized.  New coupons should go out in April.
It looks like we may have turned the corner on delinquencies, and we are running a small surplus before catching up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://condovoices.com/?p=49</link>
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		<title>Board Meeting Thurs. Feb. 19, 2009 &#8212; New On-Site Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the February, 2009 Board Meeting, we introduced Jason Smith as the new on-site manager. Minutes of the January meeting were approved, subject to changes proposed.
I reported on the flood in 4923-T7 (already reported on this site), and an additional flood next to Mindy&#8217;s unit (broken water shut-off).
Financially, January showed a surplus and we made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://condovoices.com/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Pool Committee Meeting Feb. 10th &#8212; Proceed with Repairs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 10, 2009, the South Fairfax Heritage Recreation Association B (the association which owns the pool used by Tall Tree South, Tall Tree Gardens, and Maplewood Village) met at TTG.
The 2008 season ended successfully and the association is in better financial shape than in recent years.
Plans for the 2009 season include whitecoating the main [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://condovoices.com/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Terrible Flood in 4923-T7 &#8212; Who owns it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday night, January 16, 2009, we had a flood in 4923-T7.  It turned out that this was a vacant, foreclosed unit, a 3-bedroom, 2-bath patio level condo.  The owner had turned off the electricity, and thus the heat.  The pipes froze in the cold, and then as the day warmed, it created an awful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://condovoices.com/?p=45</link>
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		<title>January 2009 Board Meeting &#8212; Grounds Company Selected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The January 15, 2009 board meeting was relatively uneventful.  We had minor changes to the November and December minutes, but have received the final on September&#8217;s.  I&#8217;ll try to get ahold of the 2008 minutes and get them up on the site when things low down around here a bit!
FY 2008 ended with a significant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://condovoices.com/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Site Management Resigns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dave and Greg, our site managers, left us Friday, January 16, 2009. The board proceeded to hire Jason Smith as our new site manager; he began the following week and is working out just great.
That said, we do need to have a contract for ongoing, full service site management rather than financials-only site management. The [...]]]></description>
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