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Community Association Education Understanding HOA & Condominium Assessments Where your assessment dollars go, why timely payments matter, and how homeowners and boards can work together to protect the financial health of the community. Homeowners associations maintain common areas, provide services and amenities, set aside reserves, and meet legal and contractual obligations. The vast majority of…
Community Update New Fannie Mae Rules Are Changing Condo Financing Here’s what your association needs to know — and do — before your next sale, refinance, or budget cycle. If you own a condo, sit on an HOA board, or are thinking about buying into a condominium community, there’s a financing change you need to…
Homeowner Education Why Doesn’t the HOA Maintain the Forest? Understanding the purpose of forest retention, forest conservation, and forest reserve areas within Maryland communities. Not Every Association-Owned Area Is a Landscaped Common Area One of the most common questions homeowners ask is why the Association does not mow, trim, clear, landscape, or remove fallen trees…
All Blackstone Management offices will be closing on the dates below in observance of the upcoming holidays. Christmas Holiday: Closed Wednesday, December 25 and Thursday, December 26. Office will reopen on Friday, December 27, 2023, at 8:00 AM New Year Holiday: Closed Wednesday, January 1, 2025; Office will reopen Thursday, January 2, 2025, at 8…
Summer vacations have come to an end, but that doesn’t mean all work and no play. With cooler weather, beautiful scenery and an array of local festivals, fall is the perfect time of year for weekend getaways close to home. For travel ideas, activity suggestions and trip planning, visit www.Recreation.gov. A partnership of 12 federal…
Pests inside your home can be annoying, harmful and downright scary. Fortunately, there are many steps you can take to combat pest problems. Of course, your first stop can be your last by calling an exterminator—and don’t hesitate to call the manager if you need a recommendation. But you can often save time and money…
Cleaning out and sprucing up your yard are good low-cost alternatives to major home improvement. Whether you hire a professional or have the skills and tools to do it yourself, here are some tips to improve your lawn and landscape: Weeding, edging, planting beds and mulching go a long way toward improving a yard’s…
2020 was truly a year like none we experienced before. Restrictions to our daily lives made us all the more grateful for the simple things in life: family, love, and good health, to name a few. Moving into 2021, life is rapidly changing each day and it is uncertain what we will need most, but…
We have received inquiries about the possible extension of tax payment and tax filing deadlines in response to Covid-19, as well as some misstated rumors. This client alert is intended to clarify the current state of tax payment and filing deadlines at the federal level and at the Maryland level. As of the moment of…
Chances are at some time in your life, you’ve made a New Year’s resolution — and then broken it. This year, stop the cycle of resolving to make change and then not following through. If your resolution is to take better care of yourself and get healthy, you will have a much better year if your resolution sticks. Here are ten…
We have added a great new tool to the Blackstone Management Vendor desk. Notifications: vendors will get notifications when maintenance/repair requests are assigned to them in our system. This will allow all vendors working with Blackstone Management to track all outstanding work and RFP requests. Scheduling: vendors now can set appointments for maintenance work at…
NEW MARYLAND LAW PREVENTS DEVELOPERS FROM RETAINING DISPROPORTIONATE HOA VOTING CONTROL A new law, effective October 1, 2018, will prevent developers from retaining disproportionate voting control after selling a majority of lots within a homeowner association (“HOA”) subdivision. This law ends the practice where some HOA developers created governing documents that gave them multiple votes…
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Blackstone Management Supporting communities in Virginia, Maryland, and the Washington DC metro since 2007.
Waldorf, MD
8 am to 5 pm M-F
Copyright 2026, Blackstone Management, LLC.
All Rights Reserved.