The world changed.
Some boards noticed.
Ours appears to be waiting for the fax confirmation sheet.
📠 Governing Like It’s 1976
In 1976, information moved slowly.
You mailed letters.
You waited weeks for responses.
Records sat in filing cabinets.
If you wanted to hide incompetence, all you needed was a locked drawer.
Today?
Every owner carries more computing power in their pocket than NASA had during the moon landing.
Artificial intelligence can analyze contracts, summarize financial statements, detect inconsistencies, compare reserve fund studies, and spot contradictions in minutes.
Yet some condominium boards still operate as though owners should simply accept:
“Because we said so.”
That worked in 1976.
It doesn’t work in 2026.
🤖 AI Doesn’t Care About Titles
The biggest change isn’t technology.
It’s transparency.
A director can no longer rely on:
- “Trust us.”
- “You wouldn’t understand.”
- “That’s complicated.”
- “Our lawyer said so.”
Owners can now upload a document and have it analyzed in seconds.
They can compare meeting minutes.
They can check legislation.
They can verify claims.
The days when information was controlled by a handful of people around a boardroom table are ending.
Some boards haven’t realized it yet.
🧓 Experience Is Valuable. Stagnation Is Not.
This isn’t about age.
There are brilliant 75-year-old directors and incompetent 35-year-old directors.
The issue is mindset.
A good modern board asks:
✅ How can we communicate better?
✅ How can we make records easier to access?
✅ How can we use technology to reduce conflict?
✅ How can we increase transparency?
A bad board asks:
❌ How can we control information?
❌ How can we discourage questions?
❌ How can we make owners go away?
One mindset belongs to the future.
The other belongs in a museum display next to the rotary phone.
🚀 The AI Era Is Here
The next decade will transform governance.
Boards that embrace technology will thrive.
Boards that resist it will spend their time fighting owners who have access to better information than ever before.
The future belongs to leaders who are adaptable, curious, and willing to learn.
Not to people whose greatest technological achievement was figuring out how to unjam the fax machine.
🏛️ Final Thought
A condominium corporation is often worth tens of millions of dollars.
Managing it requires financial literacy, technological literacy, communication skills, and an understanding of a rapidly changing world.
If your governance model is built entirely on habits formed half a century ago, the problem is not your age.
The problem is believing the world stopped changing when you did.
📠 “Please allow 6–8 weeks for delivery of this message by fax.” 😏
