Community Associations Institute was created in 1973.

Your local CAI -- Community Associations Institute -- is best prepared to help you understand professional requirements for managing associations in Alabama, link below.

A cursory search indicates that no real estate brokers license is required. You can read more, below.

Community Associations Institute (CAI), a US-nationwide organization that caters to common interest communities -- HOAs, condominium associations and co-ops -- publishes that 70,000,000 Americans own this kind of real estate. That's about 21% of the population of 318,900,000 (2014).

They do not tease out the different styles of ownership in order to give you a specific number for HOAs.

Community Associations Institute (CAI), a US-nationwide organization that caters to common interest communities -- HOAs, condominium associations and co-ops -- publishes that 70,000,000 Americans own this kind of real estate. That's about 21% of the population of 318,900,000 (2014).

They do not tease out the different styles of ownership in order to give you a specific number for HOAs.