Sun City Anthem

Monday, September 14, 2015

Anthem Opinions Welcomes New Author & Information Page

Something New at Anthem Opinions

We have a new Information Page and a new member of our Anthem Opinions writing staff....

...and we're thrilled to have Tim Stebbins authoring our newest Information Page addition..

"Nevada Know How"

Tim has been a member of the Sun City Anthem community since he and his wife, Claudia, moved here in 2003.


Having a B.S. Degree in Chemistry from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, he worked for Beckman Instruments, a firm involved in the architectural design of various instruments in the scientific community for 30 years.  

He and Claudia resided in Minneapolis, the Chicago area,  finally settling in Orange County, California before he retired from Beckman in 1993.

But...Tim was not quite ready to be "put out to pasture" and started a successful business of his own before finally retiring ten years later and moving into our community.

Since that time, Tim Stebbins has become what many consider "the community expert" in NRS 116, the Nevada law that governs  homeowners associations.

He attends 99% of most board and finance committee meetings, and has testified on a number of occasions in front of the Nevada Real Estate Commission...always as a champion of homeowner rights.

Tim will author articles pertaining to homeowners association laws and has informed us that he will gladly try to answer any questions you might have about living in a homeowners association environment.

Please join us in welcoming Tim Stebbins in his first of many articles...in our newest Information Page "Nevada Know How"...

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"Nevada Know How"

3 comments:

  1. From Robert in Nevada...to...Anthem Opinions

    Thank You! - You've successfully summarized over half of the Public Offering Statement into a clear and concise, easy-to-understand explanation.

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  2. From Kathryn Schwink...to...Anthem Opinions (Tim Stebbins)

    Does a Homeowner Association Board have the authority to change to Self management without the community voting on that major change in management?

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  3. From Tim Stebbins of Anthem Opinions...to...Kathryn Schwink

    Yes the board can decide how our association is to be managed.

    Sun City Anthem, along with most, but not all, other HOAs in Nevada contracted with a professional management company to handle the day-to-day operations of the facilities or our community.

    In our case this is a company called First Service Residential or FSR.

    The services provided by this contractor have not been satisfactory. They just do not seem to have the capabilities to manage the affairs of a HOA as large as Sun City Anthem.

    The board has looked into the alternative of self management.

    It was learned that most to all large HOAs in the country are self managed. It was also learned that FSR was one of the biggest and best management companies but generally for much smaller communities.

    Thus there are really no management companies suitable to manage Sun City Anthem.

    Locally other self managed communities in the Las Vegas Valley include Sun City Summerlin (a community even larger than Sun City Anthem) and our neighbor Sun MacDonald Ranch.

    I will add that "self management" does not mean the board will manage the association.

    The volunteer board members are not capable of doing that.

    The first step is to hire a competent General Manager and then to build a proper management structure with a combination of employees and contractors.

    As we move ahead with the conversion to self management we hope to provide more information.

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