A board meeting is where you find out whether your records are real.
Golden Bay Towers is an 89-unit cooperative on the Intracoastal Waterway in Hallandale Beach. Twin six-story towers, opened in 1962, architect Harold Wiecer, private boat docks, and a framed original sales brochure still hanging in the lobby. Like roughly one in three community associations in the United States (Foundation for Community Association Research), it is self-managed — no management company, a volunteer board, and a president who signs things. That president is the person who went on to build this software.
Self-management, in practice, meant a filing cabinet, a shared inbox, and a spreadsheet that only one person understood. The bylaws were a PDF someone emailed around. The answer to “can my daughter park in the visitor space over the holidays” depended on who you asked and how recently they had read the house rules. Nobody was doing anything wrong. There was simply no record that could be relied on twice.
So the first thing we built was not software. It was a book: The Florida Co-Op Board Handbook — 29 chapters and 203 companion forms setting out what Chapter 719 actually requires of a cooperative board, week by week, published by Park & Palm Press. Writing it forced the question that software eventually had to answer: if this is what a board is supposed to do, what would it take to actually do it on a Tuesday?
Park & Palm Connect is the answer we built for ourselves and then finished properly. The general ledger, the minute book, the compliance calendar, the document library, and the resident’s question at eleven at night all run on one association record. Golden Bay Towers has run on it since before it had a price.See what that looks like.
Park & Palm Connect is published byPark & Palm Real Estate, a South Florida real-estate and technology company. Public property websites — includinggoldenbaytowers.com— are a separate design engagement through Park & Palm Studio.
Most software companies write a white paper. We wrote 768 pages, footnoted them to the statute, and sold them to boards who had no interest in buying software. The handbook has to stand up on its own, in front of readers who will check it against Chapter 719.
That is the fastest way to find out how we think before you ever speak to us. Read a chapter. If the book is wrong about your building, the platform will be too.
Visit Park & Palm PressThe handbook
The Florida Co-Op Board Handbook
Twenty-nine chapters on governance, meetings, records, budgets, elections, the physical plant, and compliance. Chapter 719 is not Chapter 718, and a co-op board handed a condo manual is being quietly misinformed about elections, records, and share transfers.
Read about the handbookAnthony Clemenza, Founder
Anthony Clemenza is a New York attorney and licensed New York real estate broker who has spent years as president of Golden Bay Towers, an 89-unit cooperative on the Intracoastal Waterway in Hallandale Beach, Florida. He founded Park & Palm Real Estate and, from the president’s chair, built Park & Palm Connect, Park & Palm Press, and Park & Palm Studio: the software he needed to run his own building, the handbooks he wished someone had handed him at his first board meeting, and websites that treat a property as the place people live rather than a listing. He still reads the meeting packet and the pull request in the same week, which is the whole argument for these companies and also their main scheduling problem.
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Uploading a document does not make it answerable. A file sits in the library until someone with authority marks it approved for the concierge and sets who may see it. When the approved record does not cover a question, the honest reply is that it does not, and it goes to a person.
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BuildingLink publishes no pricing anywhere. Every figure in circulation is second-hand, and one of them traces back to an article from 2009. So we compare on scope, which we can show you, and leave the arithmetic to whoever will actually quote you.
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We will tell you what the statute says and when it is due. Whether your board should do the thing, and whether it did it correctly, is a question for your association’s own attorney. The platform is built to hand that lawyer a record they can read, not to replace them.
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Per-unit pricing turns every conversation into a comparison with the cheapest portal on the market, and it punishes the small buildings that need the record most. A launch fee and a flat monthly band for your size. The number does not move because you added a unit.
How many units, who keeps the books, and what happened at the last annual meeting. That is enough to start.
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