Given a community association’s multiple interactions with its members, managers and vendors, it is perhaps inevitable that even the most organized community association Board of Directors may begin to feel buried in documents, whether in paper or electronic form. At this point, the typical association Board may ask itself, "What records should we be keeping?" This article and included Records Retention Table (on last page) will explore basic tenants of records retention, including records that you are statutorily required to keep, recommended time periods for records retention, and other best practices regarding association record-keeping.
