By: Pamela Dittmer McKuen — CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Posted: August 30, 2014
The Community Association Manager Licensing and Disciplinary Act is undergoing its first major revision. This law as of Oct. 1, 2012, requires anyone who performs paid management services to Illinois community associations to be licensed. About 1,600 licenses have been granted.
Association managers, who lobbied more than a decade for the law, generally are pleased. They also have begun to identify tweaks and clarifications that are needed.
“Once the kinks are worked out, it will be very good for our industry,” said Charles Perry, director of business development and community association manager at Lieberman Management Services in Elk Grove Village. “Homeowners know we have gone through a certain amount of education and training, and that we have some accountability as far as ethical standards.”
Before the law was passed, “it never seemed right to me that so many industries were licensed, and community association management was not. But it needs work,” said Michael Rutkowski, president at First Community Management in Chicago.