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Honestly I want to say thank you to Big Red Tim P. Comes on when needed, nearly always solid, consumate professional, makes me feel our line is more solid. Needs more time.

Same for Berggren. Felt much more solid vs ORL. Feels like a much better partner for Forsberg.

Also Hall is better as a winger than a number 9. Needs to fight for his place vs Rubulacba. Not sure who wins... cybnically this is never going to happen of course as RB strategy is to help him get to Europe this year and mile the cow. So Bradley is going to keep playing him up front. But he was anonymous in the center after Emil went off.

Finally....Nealis, Dos Santos and even Mehmeti gives me very low levels of confidence. Nealis was skinned multiple times. Dos Santos is still careless with passing Mehmeti feels like he doesnt connect with Emil properly.

We have a number of long running projects with people constantly rotating on and off the team (employees and contractors). One thing we've noticed is that we often lose the context behind important decisions. New people end up revisiting isdues that were already decided months earlier because the original thinkin has disappeared with the people who made the decision.

Is this a problem or are we just terrible at documenting? Has anyone found an effective way to solve this/best practice?

We've had some turnover over the past couple of years, and what we're finding is that we keep having the same discussions and revisiting decisions that were already made in the past. Usually nobody fully remembers the original reasoning, tradeoffs, or what we decided not to do.

Is this just a documentation/process problem that we're not managing well, or has anyone found a better way to preserve important decisions so we dont keep rehashing the same ground?

Question for capture managers at defense contractors:

You're leading a pursuit and realize you need someone with very specific operational experience (particular platform, program, mission area, etc.).

How do you actually go about finding that person?

It feels like LinkedIn is pretty terrible/not built for this at all.

Any views or advice on what the best process and systems are?

I'm doing some research to better understand how capture teams actually build bid teams.

I've heard from several capture teams at defense contractors that one of the hardest parts of pursuing an opportunity is identifying people with the specific capabilities needed for that bid.

What I heard was that there's a massive demand for the most qualified people. And getting these SMEs is getting harder.

Is that your experience? Would love to hear some perspectives.

Buying a condo and getting increasingly worried about the risk of rising dues and special assessments coming down the line.

Aside from trying towork it myself or hiring an expensive real estate lawyer, it doesn't feel like there's an easy way to get a good view of HOA risk or if I'm walking into a ticking time bomb?

Any advice?

I am considering buying into an 18-year-old condo HOA and want to know whether a major special assessment is likely in the next 3-5 years.

Who would I hire to help evaluate that?

What I'm trying to understand is whether the HOA appears financially healthy, has adequate reserves, and whether there are warning signs that could lead to a large assessment down the road.

I like my realtor, but I don't think reviewing reserve studies, budgets, meeting minutes, insurance issues, and long-term maintenance planning is really their expertise.

Does a service like this exist, or is this something a real estate attorney would typically do?

For those who have bought condos before, who would you trust to assess this risk?

Hit me with your worst special assessment horror stories - especially the ones you didn't see coming.

Especially ones without warning signs....or warning signs you notice next time!!!

btw in advance, sorry it happpened. Sounds like it sucks!!

My buddy is an owner of a ~$5–10M founder-led manufacturing business. Typical situation: business operates fine day to day, books are messy, docs all over the place (likely in a box!), no real KPI discipline. Basically nothing is really organized for diligence.

He’s not trying to sell immediately. He just knows that if a buyer looked at the business today, it would probably create a lot of cleanup work and harm his valuation.

He doesn’t want consulting or a broker (he gets cals all the time). He mainly wants practical lightweight help over time getting the business cleaner, documentation organized, reporting improved, and generally becoming more “ready” for some day in the future when he presses the button to sell.

His current accountant will help with books but doesn't seem to want to do much of the other work.

What does he need?

Is he being realistic he can do this himself?

Has any other owner found or can recommend any SMB workflow software to help clean up and prep for a future sale?

Our books are ok but usual SMB messy and we need help to start to clean up.

Aside from the option of hiring consultants or a fractional CFO - which seems expensive - I don't see much out there to help us.

Advice?

My buddy is a 60+ year old founder/operator looking to eventually sell his SMB manufacturing business. Roughly ~$7M revenue, operationally functional, but like a lot of founder-led businesses the books/processes aren’t really “buyer ready.”

The business runs fine day to day, but financials need cleanup, docs and processes scattered. A lot of stuff is in his head.

He doesn’t want to hire a consulting firm or advisor years in advance, and probably can’t justify a full time CFO right now.

What he really wants is a lighter-weight, practical way to gradually clean things up over 1-3 years so he doesn’t get crushed on valuation or diligence later or have to scramble.

For those of you who work on SMB transactions regularly what do owners like this typically do to prep? Use their CPA, hire a consultant, some sort of software?

Looking at buying a condo and trying to get comfortable with the management company fees and services.

How do HOA boards actually evaluate whether management companies are doing a decent job for them, as I assume this is hard to benchmark?

Is there some sort of way to do this fairly?

Currently buying a condo and people keep telling me to “have a lawyer review the HOA docs” so I dont walk into issues.

I’m trying to understand what lawyers actually review vs what buyers are expected to figure out themselves.

Should I ask my lawyer to review things like reserve funding, maintenance gaps, issues in minutes, or insurance issues or is that done by me?

Any guidance about what is "normal" here?

I'm buying a condo/townhome and realizing I have no idea how people determine whether an HOA is financially healthy before buying.

Reading horror stories about special assessments, underfunded reserves, deferred maintenance, insurance costs, bad management company......

Super worried as I have no idea how to work out what's "normal".

First off, huge respect to anyone volunteering on an HOA or condo board.

Genuinely curious from current or former board members how much do people actually worry about personal liability or being blamed if something goes wrong in the community?

With all the horror stories around insurance, reserves, deferred maintenance, lawsuits, etc, does this feel like a growing concern for people serving on boards? Or is it mostly overblown online?

Am I the only one noticing something really strange with ticket supply this year?

A few days ago there were tons of seats available dor tonight at decent prices across multiple sites. Now suddenly most of that inventory has vanished and what’s left is weirdly clustered nosebleed sections at $60+ (Seatgeek: row 25, 227!!!!!)

It doesn’t feel like a normal “tickets slowly selling out” pattern. Usually this looks like random scattered leftovers everywhere. This looks more like inventory got yanked or something else.

Or somehow tonight is magically a near full house (which honestly seems extremely unlikely given the recent attendance).

Feels like something is going on here.......