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The reference books boards and managers actually keep on the desk, plus the ones we earn nothing on.
Short list, not a padded one. These are the titles that come up over and over in conversations with boards and managers, plus the two or three a new director should read before their first meeting.
Four of these are not sold on Amazon at all. The CAI and ABA titles are among the best in the field and we earn nothing when you buy them, and one of them your CAI chapter may hand you for free. They are here because they are the right answer.
Where a listing says Search rather than View, it is because editions matter and we have not confirmed which printing a given link lands on. Reference books get superseded while the old edition stays on sale, and a stale statutory reference is worse than one extra click.
Peter M. Dunbar · 17th edition, current through the 2023 session
The default desk reference for Florida condo boards and managers. If you keep one book, keep this one.
Four older editions are still sold under different listings. Check the edition before you order.
View on AmazonPeter M. Dunbar and Charles F. Dudley · 13th edition
The HOA-side companion to The Condominium Concept, for single-family, townhouse, and master association boards.
13th edition. Several older editions are still sold under different listings; this links the current one.
View on AmazonMarcy Kravit · 2022
Written by a working Florida condo and HOA manager, about the parts of the job the statutes do not cover. The practical counterweight to a legal desk reference.
Also sold in hardcover if you prefer it.
View on AmazonJim Slaughter · 2023
Start here. Slaughter is a Certified Professional Parliamentarian and a member of CAI's College of Community Association Lawyers, so this is parliamentary procedure written for association boards rather than for clubs.
View on AmazonRobert, Honemann, Balch, Seabold, and Gerber · 3rd edition, 2020
The full authority runs 816 pages. This is the one a volunteer board member will actually finish, and it is available as an audiobook.
View on AmazonRobert, Honemann, Balch, Seabold, and Gerber · 12th edition, 2020
The authority itself, for the chair and the secretary. Reach for it when a meeting goes sideways and somebody wants the actual rule.
The 12th is current. Several superseded editions still sell well; there is no 13th.
View on AmazonCommunity Associations Institute · 3rd edition
The professional standard for reserve study methodology, and what a reserve specialist would name if you asked.
Sold by CAI, not on Amazon. We earn nothing on this one.
Find it at CAIRobert Nordlund and Kevin Leonard
Plain-language explanation of what a reserve study actually says, for boards who have to vote on funding one.
Self-published. Worth reading anyway: Nordlund founded Association Reserves and knows the subject cold.
Search on AmazonMarcy Kravit · 2025
Building trust, resolving conflict, and leading a board of volunteers who did not ask to be in a dispute. The people side of governance, from someone who has run it.
Published December 2025, so it is new enough that reviews are still thin.
View on AmazonCommunity Associations Institute
The best general board-education title there is: governing documents, board leadership, finances, reserves, insurance, communication.
Sold by CAI, not on Amazon. We earn nothing on this one.
Find it at CAICommunity Associations Institute
For a brand new board member. Two dozen adaptable forms, checklists, and notices you can put to work the same week.
Ask your CAI chapter first. Many hand this out free, and we earn nothing on it either way.
Find it at CAIAmerican Bar Association
For managers and boards arguing coverage: condominium, cooperative, and HOA policies read by lawyers who litigate them.
Sold by the ABA, not on Amazon. We earn nothing on this one.
Find it at the ABA