Newsletter information

I’ve found the newsletter to be a wonderful tool. I’ve done ours for the past two years and use it to communicate with the homeowners. Along with contact information and a listing of important dates I periodically put blurbs reminding homeowners that the clubhouse can be rented for private parties and reminders about trash and cleaning up after your pets. I also put everything the Board is doing or is planning on doing and why and most importantly updated financial information. We tell people exactly where their money is going and I can’t tell you how these simple things have helped with the rumors. Every Association has it’s die hard complainers who are never happy about anything but it’s incredibly difficult for them to stir up trouble talking
about how we’re wasting their money when it’s in black and white for everyone to see.

Although a lot of people use Microsoft Publisher or similar programs for their newsletters I have found a simple word processing program works just as well. Before each article I give a one line description about the article in a larger bolder font and the article is in font that is easy to read. Pick two or three fonts that are easy to read and stick with them for consistency. While there are some neat fonts out there, keep them for your personal use. Remember if the newsletter is too
hard to read, people won’t. Also it’s good to have someone else proof read it if you can, just because spell check says it’s the write word, doesn’t make it so. (right)

This is a link to a good article about using copyrighted material
http://www.companynewsletter.com/copyright.htm