Fun and Adventure in the Condo Lifestyle - Softcover

Baughman, James Keir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979044324 ISBN 13: 9780979044328

Publisher: Baughman Literary Group, 2003

Synopsis

For Condominium owners, prospective owners, management personnel, directors, officers...learn how to better manage and maintain your condominium. Information comes from condo owners and managers over much of America.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Some of these helpful essays have already been published....once...in national and regional professional magazines.

For the scribe, being published is a wondrous thing. But, with specialized, informative writing, being published only once may be a decided dilemma.

Why? Well each of these tales was willfully crafted to share new ways of solving difficulties that bedevil those of us who are owners, leaders, or managers in our condo and community associations.

The month in which a magazine is published articles, and the lessons they describe, likely have high visibility, many readers. But then, when the following month’s issue comes out, all the wisdom of the month before fades into long ago, to dusty, unseen files, quickly hidden, forgotten.

Truth is, though, much of the wisdom in these articles is genuinely timeless, bearing tips and new ideas that may continue to help make many of us better leaders and managers of our condominium environment.

So..., why not select those the writer deems most useful, gather them together in one place...like a book...that cannot so easily fade into last month’s long ago...?

Ta-Daaaaaa...!!! That’s just what we’ve done!

All the following articles, crafted, some published, in the past three or four years seem to a great extent, ageless in context of the community association quandaries they point out, solutions they discover.

To be sure, though, the insight, the answers are not all of the author himself. What you may learn in these pages comes from people just like you, condo and community association owners, board members, officers, managers... all across America.

They’ve been kind enough to subject themselves and their fellow association members to interview, to tell their tales of problem and successful accomplishment in the intense spotlight of national publication. It’s often a bit scary to most folk, but what a way to serve your fellow man...or woman!

You’ll find far more, though, than just dilemma and resolution in these pages.

There’s fun, too... word pictures of owners, board members, association officers, managers much like yourself. People who’ve made a difference in a lifestyle similar to yours. And too, there are word pictures of places in America you might not have yet seen, visions of condos or community associations that might be quite different from yours.

Mostly, perhaps, there are reminders of why you chose the condo or community association lifestyle...encouragement that it can be made even better...hints as to how to skirt the major stumbling blocks to fruitful living, and effective management.

There’s just one caution. Even with passage of time, in human context, many things stay the same. But some change. So, remember to apply these ideas in the broader sense, fine tuning them to fit your own time, your own particular community association, your own members, your own special part of America, especially the current laws of your own State or City, or County. If you do those things effectively and well...how can you miss?

James Keir Baughman

About the Author:

The author was born in Richmond, of an old Virginia family. Fourteen growing years were spent on a 60 acre family farm in it’s rural suburb, Varina.

The Indian maiden, Pocohontas lived in Varina with her pioneer husband John Rolfe in the earliest years of our nation. It is also the community where Thomas Jefferson’s daughter Martha lived with her husband, Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr on his 950 acre plantation. Many Civil War battles were fought in and near Varina, and the author’s grandfather, James Wilson Baughman, built the main house inside a Civil War fort which remained on the farm.

After World War II, the author lived in Rome, Georgia, then Birmingham, Alabama. During four years high school years he served in the Alabama educational systems Army Reserve Officer Training Corps and the Alabama Air National Guard. .

In July of 1949, on a two week military sojourn, James Keir Baughman found Northwest Florida’s magnificent Emerald Coast. In that same year his family bought acreage at Miramar Beach in South Walton County, just east of Fort Walton Beach.

On June 1st, 1951 his parents Elba A. and Iris Keir Armour Baughman invested in a small conglomerate of retail businesses in Shalimar, a suburb of Fort Walton Beach, and moved the family there.

The author began writing as an ad copywriter, columnist, news writer, and advertising manager at Fort Walton Beach’s weekly Playground News in 1956. During an extensive career in business management, marketing, and advertising he published thousands of lines of copy as an advertising copywriter. In retirement he has written for national and regional magazines of the condo management and sailing genre.

He served 10½ years as a Fort Walton Beach City Councilman, one year as Mayor Pro Tempore.

Over the years, he served on Boards of Directors for the JayCees, Northwest Florida Regional Planning Council, Playground Area Safety Council, YMCA, Fort Walton Yacht Club, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce, Fort Walton Beach Downtown Merchants Assn, as a management advisor for Junior Achievement, as a Lieutenant in the Navarre Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol, was active in the Florida League of Cities, Rotary Club, and Lions Club.

His mother Iris Keir Armour Baughman guided the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce for 14 years as Executive Director. He and his family members have owned ten business enterprises over the 52 year span.

The pinnacle of his business career, prior to retirement, was as a Florida Licensed Community Association Manager, managing two 7 story hi-rises in Destin. In earlier years he was a residential and rental condo owner and board member.

The author’s love of sailing began five decades ago when he found Northwest Florida’s emerald hued waters. He and his wife Sandee live along side the Gulf Coast Intra- Coastal Waterway reaching 800 miles through five states to the Mexican border.

His children: James and wife Diane, Jill, Dana and husband Brent, are all Fort Walton Beach and Destin professionals or business owners who pursue his enchantment with the delightful Emerald Coast lifestyle. His granddaughter Mary Grace joined the family on March 30, 2003.

About this edition

• Publisher: Baughman Literary Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0979044324
• ISBN 13: 9780979044328
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176