This past summer, Virginia has became the most recent state to adopt a licensing and certification requirement for professional community association mangers. The law will provide homeowners with the assurance that their community association manager has a minimum set of qualifications needed to handle the complex and challenging task of community management.
Under the law, management companies and other covered entities must make an application for a provisional license to manage communities in Virginia by December 31, 2009. After this deadline, the full requirements of licensure will become effective. CAI has set up an information resource page where you can find a copy of the licensing application as well as information on the new law. You may find that information here.
By statute, persons holding a CAI or NBC-CAM certification will be considered to have met the individual certification requirements and companies holding an AAMC will have met the qualifications for corporate licensure. In adopting the CAI/NBC-CAM family of certifications and designations the legislature has deferred to the experts on management, including the many CAI volunteers who’ve worked to develop these programs over the years.
