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4 Essential Tips to Enhance your Email Communication with Condominium Residents

Written by BuildingLink | Jan 18, 2024 7:13:05 PM

As condominium property managers, the role you play in maintaining effective communication with unit owners is pivotal. From addressing their concerns to sharing board discussion items, your emails serve as a vital link. However, email communication can pose challenges, particularly when conveying complex or sensitive issues and addressing a diverse audience with varying levels of tech-savviness. 

Despite these challenges, email remains an incredibly effective tool for reaching residents. In this post, we share four key tips to help you optimize your email communications, fast-tracking your operations. 

1. Schedule Emails in Advance


Maximize your efficiency by scheduling emails ahead of time instead of drafting them one by one as needed. This may look like setting aside time every week to plan and draft upcoming emails. This proactive approach not only ensures consistent communication with unit owners but also puts more time back into your day, helping you better tackle the diverse and numerous responsibilities that come with being a property manager. Craft your emails at your convenience and choose send times that you know residents are more likely to open and read them. By scheduling these emails ahead of time, you can send them even during your off hours. 

2. Enhance Readability with Engaging Visuals


The visual appeal of your emails can significantly impact their effectiveness. Use clear, legible fonts and organize your text into brief, digestible segments or bullet points for easier reading. Try incorporating relevant images to provide your readers with a visual break and to underscore important points. Be sure to strike a balance — the email should be visually appealing without being distracting, ensuring your key message gets across.

3. Streamline with Email Templates


Email templates aren’t just a convenience—they’re a game-changer for routine, long form communications like monthly newsletters or seasonal reminders. They offer a customizable framework that you can use as a starting point for professional-looking emails, saving onsite teams from repetitive work and the hassle of graphic design with a straightforward, efficient solution. Personalize these templates with recipient-specific details for a touch of personal connection and change fonts and colors as needed, helping you reinforce your community’s image in every message you send.

4. Ensure Ample Attachment Space


Dealing with comprehensive documents such as meeting minutes and policy updates requires substantial email attachment capacity, which is often more space than standard email attachments allow. However, large attachment limits are crucial because they enable property managers to send all complete documents in a single email, avoiding the confusion of multiple, fragmented messages. Ensure your email service can handle such demands for smoother, more effective resident communication.

Partner with BuildingLink

At BuildingLink, we understand the unique challenges and pressures that property managers face daily. In our continuous effort to meet their demands for simple yet powerful solutions, BuildingLink proudly introduces our upgraded Send Email features. Our enhanced email capabilities include: 

  • Scheduled Email Delivery: Plan and dispatch your emails at the most opportune times, ensuring consistent and timely communication with residents. 
  • Easy Image Embedding: Enrich your emails with easily embedded images, adding visual appeal to your messages.
  • Advanced Formatting Options: Craft more engaging and professional-looking tools with our improved formatting tools.
  • Innovative Email Templates: Use our all-new templates to streamline your communication process, ensuring efficiency and brand consistency.
  • Expanded Attachment Limits: Accommodate larger files with ease, thanks to our increased attachment limit of 40MB (body + attachments).

With these improvements, BuildingLink isn’t just improving email communication. Trusted by HOAs, co-ops, condominiums, and multifamily properties around the globe, we’re providing an effortless and effective solution that helps property managers deliver superior resident experiences while streamlining maintenance and operations. We offer tools that will simplify not only your communications but also your record-keeping, administration, maintenance, and front desk staff operations.

When you’re ready to run your community better, smarter, and faster, book your BuildingLink demo today.