Tool Category: Model Letters

The following letter incorporates four key items that should be included when reminding members that they’re obligated to follow the community’s pet rules, and why doing so is important. Show this letter to your attorney before adapting it for use in your community.

Here’s a Model Letter you can give members to help make their units more energy efficient, which will in turn minimize heat complaints that you have to deal with.

If you must terminate an employee, make sure that you send him a termination letter and keep a copy of it for your files with any other documentation you have regarding the employee’s performance, such as warnings that you’ve given. Remember to include the cause for dismissal in the letter. Ask your association’s attorney about…

Send the following letter to an employee who refers a candidate whom you hire. The letter thanks the employee for referring the candidate and tells the employee how much he or she will receive and when to expect the bonus.

Making units more energy efficient year-round can help reduce utility expenses and help the environment. Here are some measures members can take to improve energy efficiency in their units.

If a member’s disability is not obvious—for example, a mental disability—an association is entitled to ask for supporting materials that document the member’s need for a service animal such as an emotional support animal. The Model Letter below, which you would give to a professional who is familiar with the member’s disability, will help you…

Here’s an example of a letter you can send to your members to announce that the association will be providing high-speed Internet service for all members and, if applicable, common areas.

Ask your association’s attorney to help you adapt this letter to give to on-site employees in your community when a member shows you a valid restraining order against an individual.

Here’s a letter, prepared with the help of security expert Norman Bates, to give to on-site employees when a member shows you a valid restraining order against a spouse or partner. Talk to your attorney about adapting this letter for your own use.

You can adapt and use this letter at your community to warn members of the presence of a sex offender there. Note that it provides two optional sentences that you can use to tailor it specifically for your community. The first sentence gives you language to include if the association wants to warn members that…