I built this because I've already done it.
I'm Hope Stein, and for the past two years I've served as the volunteer HOA board president at Silverleaf — a 40-year-old, 34-unit community in Wichita. I took over when the board needed someone to step up, and within my first month, I took direct operational control of how the property was being run.
I questioned every vendor quote. I learned our building systems — the irrigation, the pool equipment, the electrical, the concrete, the roofing — from the vendors who actually know them. I built relationships with honest contractors who now prioritize our property because we prioritize them. I rebuilt our books, restored our reserves, and created a budget that plans for what a 1985 building actually needs over the next decade, not just the next year.
The result: a community that runs better, costs less to operate where it matters, and a board that's freed up to do the work only a board can do.
Now I'm bringing that same system — the operator's mindset, the long-horizon planning, the vendor network — to other Wichita HOAs whose boards deserve the same relief.