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Insurance – How Community Associations Protect Themselves

Risk Management, 2nd Ed. – How Community Associations Protect Themselves

Managing and Governing – How Community Associations Function

Also find at www.caionline.org

CAI Risk Management Professional Exchange and CAI Community Association Lawyers Exchange

Treese produces this weekly Newsletter that includes summaries, Treese Notes and hyperlinks to articles and other information on current issues, recent legislation, legal cases, and resources concerning the community association industry and other issues.

Clifford Treese conceived of the CAI Community Association Fact Book, now the leading industry compendium of national and state data on the number of community associations in the U.S., and has served as author and General Editor of the Fact Book since its inception.

• Community Association Project Standards for Insurance and Risk Management (primary consultant and reviewer), Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation), 2015
• Leadership and Cooperative Disputes: How Understanding Interests, Rights and Power Can Bring Better Solutions, published by Cooperative Housing Journal, National Association of Housing Cooperatives, 2002
• Purchasing Insurance for Common Interest Community (with Professor Katharine Rosenberry), Wake Forest Law Review, 1992

• U.S. Housing in Historical Perspective, CAI Law Seminar, 2011
• United States Condominiums – An Important Extension of Homeownership and Community Governance, for Renmin University, Beijing, China, October 2008
• U.S. Perspectives on Community Associations, for Griffith University Conference on Strata Titles, Australia, September 2007
• Telework, Technology and Community Associations (primary author), CAI Law Seminar, 2006
• Comparative Perspectives on Government and Community Associations (primary author), CAI National Conference, 2005
• Residential Development Handbook (Third Edition) (contributing author), published by the Urban Land Institute, 2004
• Changing Perspectives on Community Association Mortgage Underwriting and Credit Analysis, published by the Research Institute for Housing America, 2001
• M100 Introduction to Association Management (contributing author), Community Associations Institute
• Audit Risk Alerts (contributor), AICPA Common Interest Realty Associations, 1994-2008

As an example, at the CAI 2024 Law Seminar:

“Apocalypse Soon Part 2: Termination and Dissolution of a Community Association – Risk Management and Insurance Issues”. Las Vegas, NV. February 16, 2024.

Treese has presented keynote addresses, taught seminars, and provided consultation in the U.S. and in China, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia and Australia for various housing organizations including the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR). In matters relating to development, risk management and insurance in community associations, he continues to work with private and public entities in the U.S. including Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, FHA, HUD Division of Housing & Demographic Analysis, and FEMA.

EXAMPLES:

1.0  Hawai'i Real Estate Commission & Hawai'i Chapter of CAI joint annual Condorama XIV, online, April 19, 2025:

"California Wildfires:  Community Association Risk Management & Insurance in Hazardous Times" (see copy of presentation HERE)

2.0  Renmin University, Beijing, China, October 25, 2008:

“United States Condominiums – An Important Extension of Homeownership and Community Governance.” Hosted by SunYat-sen University, China; Tongji University, China; sponsored jointly with George Washington University, USA.