Windhaven Condominium Association Hosts Summer School Classes
Summer 2010
Carole Engstrom describes what she learned:
The class was asked the difference between a map and a globe:
A map is flat and a globe is round-good so far.
When would you use a map or use a globe:
One child replied:
You would use a map when you wanted to ride a bike and stop at the end and go back.
You would use a globe if you wanted to ride round and round and round..
ROWELL ADOPTS A FAMILY FOR THE HOLIDAYS, 2009!
Click here to view the thank you from Palatine Township
Adopt a Family
MANAGER LICENSING BECOMES LAW !
August 26, 2009
Members of the Community Associations Institute and CAI Manager’s Committee and Members of the Illinois Legislative Action Committee
Re: Community Association Manager Act
Dear Members:
After years of effort, I am pleased to announce that the Community Association Manager Act was formally approved by Governor Patrick Quinn and became law on August 25, 2009 as Public Act 96-0726. CAI and its Illinois Legislative Action Committee led the initiative to create a level of professionalism for the Community Association management industry.
Effective January 1, 2011, no person may provide services as a Community Association Manager unless he or she holds a current and valid manager license. Like other licensing statutes, the Community Association Manager Act will create minimum qualifications for licensure, provide financial security to associations, impose discipline for manager misconduct and require continuing education to renew the license.
Recognizing existing service and experience, the Act also provides that persons who have been working in the Community Association management field for five (5) years will be exempt from the initial license requirement to pass an examination. The Act also recognizes continuing education credits for those persons who take courses to maintain their professional real estate license.
Special thanks to the Manager’s Committee of CAI, led by Bill DeMille, who initiated the licensing effort and drafted the original version of the legislation. We acknowledge the work by Illinois Legislative Action Committee members Bill DeMille, Carol Marcou, Frank Coleman, Barbara Wick, Jennifer Eilert, Mike Baum and Boyd Briscoe. ILAC Members monitored the negotiations, led fund raising activities and adopted positions for the legislation. The Chapter Board, its officers and staff, provided ongoing work and financial support.
This legislation would not have been successful without the efforts of consultants Jeff Dixon and Mike Hoffman and the dedicated sponsorship of State Senator A.J. Wilhelmi and Representative Elaine Nekritz. CAI appreciates the bi-partisan support from
Co-Senate sponsors Kwame Raoul, Martin Sandoval, Dale Risinger, Susan Garrett, Terry Link, Kirk Dillard, Ira Silverstein and Donne E. Trotter and Co-House sponsor Darlene Sanger.
We also appreciate the ongoing cooperation and guidance from the Illinois Association of Realtors and the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. The Chapter is grateful for the efforts of CAI National Executive Director Tom Skiba, Andrew Fortin, Vice President of Government & Public Affairs, and Dawn Bauman, Executive Director of NBC-CAM. Our fellow trade organization, ACTHA, consistently promoted manager licensing.
ILAC will work with the Department to adopt rules to make the Licensing Act a model of excellence, fairness and financial responsibility.
This is a historic day for the Illinois Chapter of CAI and the community association industry. Every member of CAI should be proud of the collaborative effort to enhance the management profession and protect the most valuable investment of community association members.
Very truly yours,
Mark D. Pearlstein, Chairman
Illinois Legislative Action Committee
CAI PMDP Class M202 in Chicago - August 2009
 
Kara Cermak audits the M202 course with
Beth Jones, Associate Broker
Red Rock Realty in Colorado Springs
"Not what we have, but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance."
Thank you to Beth for a wonderful first experience with assisting towards training managers in our industry!! Kara
CAI NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2009
Kara Cermak is trained to become National faculty in New Orleans. She will soon begin teaching CAI's PMDP courses. Here she is pictured with CAI-Illinois' Executive Director, Joanne Litman, and CAI-Illinois' President, Andrea Sorgani, as well as Brook Silvestri of Smart Street Bank.
 
IT'S OFFICIAL!! WE'RE OPERATING OUT OF OUR NEW LOCATION!
2587 Millennium Drive, Suite H, Elgin, IL 60124
847-991-6000 fax 847-991-6122
WE'RE MOVING!!!
Effective April 30, 2009, Rowell will be moving into our own built-out office space in Elgin. Our phone numbers, email addresses and all lockbox addresses will remain the same; however, our main address will change to:
2587 Millennium Drive, Suite H, Elgin, IL 60124
October 17, 2008
Rowell teams up with WINGS - Women in Need Growing Stronger.
Rowell employees and the company donated their time and money to shop for items
that the WINGS volunteers need to provide for the women and children that are
victims of domestic violence, within our area.
  
About WINGS 
Our Mission
The mission of WINGS is to provide a continuum of integrated services in an effort to end domestic violence and homelessness one family at a time.
What We Do
WINGS helps homeless and abused women and children by offering integrated services that meet their needs for shelter, education, guidance and support. We provide safe, secure living environments, through transitional housing and emergency shelter, in residential neighborhoods that allow women to go to school, work, and care for themselves and their children.
WINGS is a 501(c)(3) non-operating foundation.
Who We Serve
Our residents are women and children who are victims of domestic violence and need temporary safe shelter or who become homeless due to other extreme hardships and circumstances. Most of them come from the north and northwest suburbs of Chicago’s Cook and Lake Counties, the city of Chicago and surrounding areas. WINGS receives an average of 200 calls per month from women of all ethnic backgrounds and ages and touches the lives of hundreds of families with direct services, information and referrals.
June 14, 2008
Rowell's 35th Anniversary Picnic!!!
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December 6th, 2007
Palatine Township Adopt-A-Family Program has grown tremendously over the past 25 years. The program now provides gifts to approximately 500 families from the Palatine Community each year. For the past 3 years the Rowell staff has adopted a family. This year we adopted a family of four, Mom and three boys ages 7, 11, and 12. The staff at Rowell contributed money towards the gifts and Rowell Inc. matched that dollar amount. The township gives us the family's wish list. I am very happy to say that we were able to get everything on the list and lots more. A couple of staffers volunteered to do the Shopping and others helped to wrap up the gifts. The gifts will be delivered to the Township and they will bring them to the family. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
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September 13th, 2007
We have an announcement to make -
The Illinois House Bill 1071 was signed by the Governor, and is the first step towards Manager Licensing, something that Rowell feels very strong about and has been helping to endorse for years.
Congratulations to the industry, and thank you to Mark Pearlstein for all of his tireless efforts in the passing of this legislation.
Kara Cermak, CMCA, AMS, PCAM
President
Click here to read the Illinois Manager Standards
March 6,2006
Rowell, Incorporated has recently achieved the designation of AAMC® through CAI – the Community Associations Institute. The AAMC® is administered by CAI and means that the Management Company has met the highest standards for Management Companies as set by CAI.
In order to achieve this exemplary status, Rowell, Incorporated met the strict financial management and reporting requirements and maintains that 75% of our company’s qualifying managers hold a PCAM®, AMS®, CMCA®, or CPM® designation. These additional designations show a company’s commitment to ongoing education for its managers.
We are very proud to have been given the opportunity to apply for this designation and we’re proud of our managers for having achieved their various designations through CAI.
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