recipient of that award, directly following its namesake, Barbara Wick herself. Vince has been an instructor in CAI’s leadership training programs for board members, as well as a frequent speaker over many years at local seminars dealing with community associations. When CAI offered an accreditation for management companies, Vince made sure that Erickson Management became an Accredited Association Management Company (AAMC® of the AAMC®
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accreditation is to ensure that the company’s staff members have the skills, experience, and integrity to help communities succeed, and the company’s managers are required to have advanced training and commitment to the industry.
When I joined the staff of Erickson Management in 1993, I gained a whole new world. Vince was the owner of a phenomenally well-organized management company that served more than 100 associations of all types and sizes, and did it in extraordinary fashion. He had the “Golden Girls” of Erickson – all women with great real estate sales experience and, shall we say, of a certain age – who were Realtors® that often listed and sold the units in the associations managed by Erickson. Vince’s wife Loretta essentially headed the accounting department, his son Dale worked as an Account Executive, and together Vince and Loretta employed a tight- knit group of primarily women who really accomplished an amazing amount of work on a daily basis. In the days before electronic communication and cloud document storage, Vince had a system of weekly “board mail” and a comprehensive binder for each association that contained everything that mattered about that association. If you had a meeting at a particular association, you grabbed the binder and you were good to go!
I am just one of the many that were fortunate to work under Vince’s
tutelage. Vince saw something in me, and he gave me a place to grow. By January of 1994, I was an Account Executive with a portfolio of 19 properties comprised of 1,157 units. Vince insisted that his managers attend CAI’s Professional Management Development Program (PMDP) courses. The lessons you learned from Vince and the example he set really stuck: I attended my first CAI trade show and conference in January of 1994, and haven’t missed one since. He really wanted his managers to be involved in CAI on a volunteer basis, and he was an amazingly dedicated volunteer himself. In 1994, I joined what was then the CAI Newsletter Committee, that has since become the CAI Magazine Committee, and I’m still a member. What can you do? I learned well, from one of the best by his example, the importance of being involved in this industry.
There are many people who could speak to Vince Innocenti’s legacy of innovation, education and mentorship.
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He has provided a lasting foundation for community association managers with his contributions to CAI, both in Illinois and nationally. There is no doubt Vince is vastly knowledgeable of the community association industry, and his career is exemplary. He could be fiery at times and swiftly decisive, when a situation called for action or change. Vince could be both impassioned champion and admirable opponent, depending on his view of an issue. Always, he cared.
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