It's rare that you can buy a new home in a development that does have a HOA. As a homeowner you are bound by HOA restrictions found in Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC&Rs).

The CC&Rs regulate your use of your property, restricting everything from color of house, window coverings, holiday decorations, sports courts, pets, to landscaping and etc.

One of most recent restrictions that builders are including in their CC&Rs is a restriction that prohibits homeowner from leasing their property. Builders have a provision in their sales contracts stating that home will be a primary or secondary residence and that purchaser will occupy home. The owner is strictly prohibited from renting home.

Why this trend? The idea is to limit number of rentals in a subdivision because lenders believe that a high number of rentals in a community affects value of property and can erode security of their loans.

Many of us entered business as a technician. You know technical nature of this business; you do it everyday; over and over again. The question is: How can you do this technical work with highest level of efficiency and effectiveness so that you'll have a great business?

Some of you entered business as manager. You plan, you quantify, and you implement it with and through others. The question is: How can you do management work that will get your team to work for as though they're running their own business?

Some of you entered business as an entrepreneur. You have this wonderful idea. You're an innovator. How do I get others to see it, to feel it, to breathe it?

Is this familiar to you? It should be, there is an entrepreneur, manager and technician in all of us. We need all three to have a successful business.

Building a Business FOR YOU is just about 3 steps:

Step 1: Why You Do What You Do

The starting point for building a business that works begins with why you do what you do. The challenge facing most business owners is understanding of what they want for their life. It's not cars, money, or house. It is essence, purpose of their life. It's source of their passion and their vitality. It gives them clarity and purpose. It is their guiding light. It is what we call their Ultimate Objective.

Do you know your Ultimate Objective? The business is designed and built to give you what you want, because it's your life we're talking about.