ABOUT ARC
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Why join
ASSOCIATION
OF RESIDENTIAL
COMMUNITIES
(ARC)
ARC?
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The Association of Residential Communities (ARC)
has been in existence for over 10 years. With 11
founder members, 10 chapters around the country
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and over 350 member estates that are home to
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ARC has researched, developed and sourced
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over 400 best practice resources covering
ARC’s annual industry-wide survey covering
all possible residential community statistics is
available for estate benchmarking purposes.
community management, and these are available to ARC
The ARC website, which attracts over 50,000 hits per month
with 2,000 unique visitors, features a regular newsletter,
calendar of events, resources including a regularly updated
Q&A section, and a two-way communication portal that contains
all disciplines relevant to residential community
up-to-the-minute industry alerts on matters directly affecting
management and leadership.
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community experts across various areas of residential
members.
over 700,000 residents, ARC represents 58% of
the market in respect of number of homes.
ARC has developed strategic partnerships with residential
residential communities.
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The ARC helpline, which deals with any day-to-day queries and
challenges faced by residential estate managers, is available to
all members.
ARC runs conferences and workshops on various topics to
build the capacity of residential estate managers and directors.
Residential estate managers network with each other, thereby
learning from each other on local, regional and national issues, at
regular ARC chapter meetings.
ARC is an international chapter of the Community Association
Institute (USA) that offers all residential estate managers
access to an international qualification and professional
designation. ARC has established the CAISA, which offers these
internationally recognised qualifications and designations.
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ARC has established the Residential Communities Council (RCC)
to deal with imposed legislation, and has developed mechanisms
to ensure that the industry is empowered to self-regulate.
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ARC has established a national voice, successfully addressing
the Registrar resolutions to force an HOA not to issue clearance
certificates on forced sales; the SARS issue relating to charging
income tax on building penalty income; and the speeding matter
in the SCA.
Visit www.hoasupport.co.za to see our members, our
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chapters, some interesting documents, and further
ARC constantly sources legislation affecting residential
communities, which it imparts to members, and runs workshops
to help residential estate managers and directors to alleviate
risks attached to this legislation.
details of the benefits of membership. Or call
0861 462 463, or email [email protected]
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