Horry County Memorial Library Receives Reference Library From The Foundation For Community Association Research

Alexandria,. July 2007 - The Foundation for Community Association Research has awarded a collection of reference publications on managing condominium, cooperative and homeowner associations to the Horry County Memorial Library located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina through its Adopt-a-Library program. The collection, valued at more than $1500, was made possible by a donation from Gold Crown Management Inc. and the Foundation for Community Association Research.

"CAI's Adopt-a-Library program provides much-needed information on every aspect of a community association's role as a business, a government and a community," said David Jennings, executive of the Foundation for Community Association Research. "From combating homeowner apathy to filling tax returns, these publications offer Myrtle Beach residents the answer to any question on how to protect and enhance the community association lifestyle."

The Adopt-a-Library gift is comprised of a number of CAI publications as well as a complete set of CAI's 27 Guides fort the Association Practitioner offering nuts-and-bolts guidelines on:

Any public library or community center located within a CAI chapter area is eligible to receive an Adopt-a-Library grant. For more information, please call Shauna McLaughlin of the Foundation for Community Association Research at 888.224.4321, ext. 285.

The Foundation for Community Association Research, a 501(c)(3) corporation, was founded in 1975 to serve as the catalyst for positive change in the community association industry. The Foundation promotes community association research, development and scholarship by illuminating future trends and opportunities, supporting and conducting research and mobilizing resources. The Community Associations Institute is a nonprofit association created in 1973 to educate and represent the nation's 286,000 community associations---- condominium associations, homeowner associations and cooperatives. CAI members include homeowners, associations and related professionals and service providers.

Alexandria,. July 2007 - The Foundation for Community Association Research has awarded a collection of reference publications on managing condominium, cooperative and homeowner associations to the Chapin Memorial Library located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina through its Adopt-a-Library program. The collection, valued at more than $1500, was made possible by a donation from Gold Crown Management Inc. and the Foundation for Community Association Research.

"CAI's Adopt-a-Library program provides much-needed information on every aspect of a community association's role as a business, a government and a community," said David Jennings, executive of the Foundation for Community Association Research. "From combating homeowner apathy to filling tax returns, these publications offer Myrtle Beach residents the answer to any question on how to protect and enhance the community association lifestyle."

The Adopt-a-Library gift is comprised of a number of CAI publications as well as a complete set of CAI's 27 Guides fort the Association Practitioner offering nuts-and-bolts guidelines on:

Any public library or community center located within a CAI chapter area is eligible to receive an Adopt-a-Library grant. For more information, please call Shauna McLaughlin of the Foundation for Community Association Research at 888.224.4321, ext. 285.

The Foundation for Community Association Research, a 501(c)(3) corporation, was founded in 1975 to serve as the catalyst for positive change in the community association industry. The Foundation promotes community association research, development and scholarship by illuminating future trends and opportunities, supporting and conducting research and mobilizing resources. The Community Associations Institute is a nonprofit association created in 1973 to educate and represent the nation's 286,000 community associations---- condominium associations, homeowner associations and cooperatives. CAI members include homeowners, associations and related professionals and service providers.

South Carolina Chapter Community Association Institute

CAI - South Carolina is proud to announce the Chapter's first Management Company Award under our new MVI structure: Gold Crown Management!

As most of our members know by now, CAI has undergone major changes this year. We call it MVI - Member Value Initiative. One of the many new benefits available to our Management Company members has been utilized by Gold Crown Management, Inc. of Myrtle Beach, SC. Gold Crown Management Inc. signed up 5 of their firms managers with individual manager memberships (at great savings to them). This awards Gold Crown with one free M-100 online course. This course generally costs manager members $295.00. Under the new membership structure a manger membership costs only $120.00 per manager.

Congratulations to Mr. John Reyelt, CHA, CMCA, PCAM and Gold Crown Management for being the first in South Carolina to take advantage of this limited time education offer!

Community Association Management Company Earns Top Industry Professional Designation

Myrtle Beach, SC - May 21, 2007 -Gold Crown Management, Inc., Myrtle Beach recently joined the elite group of community association management companies who have earned the Accredited Association Management Company (AAMC) designation from Community Associations Institute (CAI). Gold Crown Management, Inc. is one of only 150 management companies nationwide who have earned the highest level of professional recognition in the community association field.

Gold Crown is now only one of three (AAMC) designated companies in the state. The two others are in Mt. Pleasant, making Gold Crown the only one in the Myrtle Beach area.

John K. Reyelt, CHA, RRP, CMCA, AMS, PCAM, President/CEO of Gold Crown Management, Inc., accepted the company certification at CAI's 56th Annual National Conference on April 26, 2007. Gold Crown Management, manages over 30 communities in the Myrtle Beach area and employees 85 employees. Gold Crown celebrated its 15th anniversary in March of 2007.

CAI is a national organization dedicated to fostering vibrant, responsive, competent community associations. Some 50 million Americans live in the nation's estimated 250,000 association-governed communities.

To earn the AAMC distinction, management companies need three years of experience in community association management and at least 50 percent of their managers must have earned professional designations.

Professional managers provide administrative, operational and managerial counsel to community association boards. They typically are responsible for managing budgets and contractors, directing association personnel and overseeing compliance with association covenants and restrictions.

CAI and its 55 state, regional and local chapters work on behalf of the professionals and volunteers engaged in the management and governance of homeowner and condominium associations, cooperative and other planned communities. CAI's 16,000 members include community association volunteer leaders, managers, management companies and businesses that provide products and services to these communities.

More information is available at www.caionline.org.