How to Cope with Aging Condos. The host for this show is Raelene Tenno. The guest is Dennis Olmstead. Condo Board members are volunteers. Reading and understanding the financials can be intimidating especially when you are looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars or more in the yearly budget. Reserves can be a mystery in […]
Simplifying IIC and What it Means for You (Condo Insider)
IIC is the Impact Rating for Flooring. The host for this show is Raelene Tenno. The guest is Brent Iwasaki. Does your condo have complaints related to being able to hear noise such as being able to hear the footsteps or moving furniture from the unit above? IIC is the ‘Impact Insulation Class’ acoustic rating […]
Senior Medicaid GURU’s (Condo Insider)
Make Better Medicare Decisions to Save Money. The host for this show is Raelene Tenno. The guest is Wanda Anae-Onishi. Condo owners are facing rising maintenance fees each year. Host Raelene Tenno is exploring ways a senior condo owner could seek ways to save money in any way possible. One possibility is the Hawai’i SHIP […]
Senior Medicare Patrol (Condo Insider)
Medicare and Finances. The host for this show is Raelene Tenno. The guest is Norma Kop. As condo owners, we need to protect each other and often alert our neighbors, friends, family or co-workers to these ever-emerging scams with different twists to defraud us out of our hard-earned money. Norma Kop is the Director of […]
Aging in Place – Elderly Services (Condo Insider)
Aging Assistance Services for our Kūpuna. The host for this show is Raelene Tenno. The guest is Derrick Ariyoshi. Hawaii’s population is aging, almost one (1) in five (5) persons is now at age 65 or older and more than a third of all households has at least one person at age 65 or older […]
Security Guards and Condos (Condo Insider)
Do You Need Security Guards for Your Condo. The host for this show is Raelene Tenno. The guest is Spike Denis. Raelene speaks with security expert, Spike Denis, on how a Condo can use Security Guards for their Condo property. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6ljqy0AFMzlEaxzpk_ydmpe Please visit our ThinkTech website at […]
Board of Director Training – HCCA (Condo Insider)
Hawaii Condo Law Compliance. The host for this show is Raelene Tenno. The Condo Board of Director Training by HCCA is a 2-day training on Saturdays, July 22 and 29. Starts at 9:00am and end at approximately 2:00pm. This training started in 2019 in a response to the legislature’s concern about the amount of complaints […]
Best Practices on Security Cameras (Condo Insider)
Where to Place Security Cameras in a Condo. The host for this show is Raelene Tenno. The guests are Rick Osborne and Spike Denis. HRS 711-1111 has provisions relating to privacy including ‘device for observing, recording, amplifying or broadcasting sounds..’ . So, exactly where can cameras be placed within a Condo property and what types […]
Encouraging Condo Owners to Get Involved (Condo Insider)
Condo Community Engagement. The host for this show is Raelene Tenno. The guest is Lorie Sides. All owners are members of the condo association, the association is like a mini government, the owners elect a board to represent them, and the board has the authority to make decisions to run the association. Owners should get […]
Condo Emails and Websites (Condo Insider)
Condos Need Specific Email Accounts. The host for this show is Raelene Tenno. The guest is Gary Wells. Our discussion today is on emails and Association websites. There’s changes that are or are about to happen: requiring Association-specific user names and emails. Benchmarking requires it, and the next could be our Association registration. Websites are […]