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Dealing with Graffiti

Homeowner Associations should monitor and immediately remove graffiti from common areas and encourages. The following are the recommended steps for dealing with graffiti:

• If you happen to see someone defacing property, do not try to stop it yourself. Call the police immediately and report vandalism in progress. Make a mental note of as many details as possible about the perpetrators—how many, what age, male or female, distinctive clothing—that will help police.

• Encourage your neighbors to do the same—watch for and report graffiti vandals.

• When graffiti appears on your property, photograph it before removing it. Record when and where it appeared, when it was removed, the cost and other relevant information. Share your documentation with the police and insurance agent.

• Remove graffiti immediately. "Taggers" gain more notoriety the longer the graffiti remains. Removing it quickly sends a message that you care about our community.

• Install good lighting in areas vulnerable to graffiti.

• Plant shrubs or climbing vines in graffiti-prone areas. Alternatively, replace walls with hedges.

• In problem areas where graffiti reappears regularly, try applying a layer of clear paint or silicone coating over painted surfaces. This will make cleaning future graffiti much easier.

Working together, any HOA can reduce this problem in its community.

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It is the fate of the Property Manager to toil at the lower employments of life; to be rather driven by the fear of evil than attracted by the prospect of good; to be exposed to censure without hope of praise; to be disgraced by miscarriage or punished by neglect, where success would have been without applause and diligence without reward. While others may aspire to praise, the Property Manager can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has yet been granted to very few.

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