Residential Estate Industry Journal REIJ 6 ARC Journal 2019 | Page 8

ABOUT ARC . . . Why join ASSOCIATION OF RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES (ARC) ARC? 01 The Association of Residential Communities (ARC) has been in existence for over 10 years. With 11 founder members, 10 chapters around the country 04 and over 350 member estates that are home to 02 ARC has researched, developed and sourced 05 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. 03 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. 06 07 08 09 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. 10 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. 11 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 12 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] 8 INDUSTRY JOURNAL