Flint Faulkner, AMS®

Flint Faulkner, has spent the last several years as a successful, certified Community Manager for a large management company in Orange County, California and has focused on the educational aspect of his industry.

Flint has extensive experience as on-site Community Association General Manager with over four years of experience managing large, upscale, single family home communities, multi-million-dollar high-rise condo projects, commercial associations, and mixed-use associations, as well as, their respective committees. He has also spent several years as a portfolio community manager, managing up to eight associations at a time.

With this experience, he has been directly involved in managing large reconstruction projects including a $14,000,000.00 defect reconstruction for a 5 story mid-rise; a $1,000,000.00 re-pipe for a large condominium community; $700,000 asphalt replacement for a commercial association parking lot and several pool and clubhouse renovations in excess of $500,000.00. He has also been heavily involved in coordinating several active litigation matters involving lawsuits, small claims court matters, internal (IDR) and alternative (ADR) dispute resolution matters and even an embezzlement case against a prior management company.

Flint has a passion for education and leadership. He continues to search for ways to strengthen the ethics and standards in his industry, as well as, taking the necessary steps to ensure he has an up to date knowledge of any changes in legislation within his industry. As a result, he currently holds the Certified Manager of Community Associations (CMCA®) designation from the Community Association Managers International Certification Board (CAMICB), the Association Management Specialist (AMS®) designation from the Community Associations Institute (CAI), and is an active member of the National Community Associations Institute. In addition, Flint is currently on track to obtain his Professional Community Association Manager® (PCAM®) designation through the CAI organization in 2019.

In addition, Flint is a volunteer member of the Orange County Regional Chapter Community Associations Institute’s Education Committee and a volunteer member of the Community Associations Institute’s Programs Committee. The education committee provides the format and education for both Board of Directors and managers alike. The programs committee is responsible for developing the monthly educational luncheons that are held on a variety of different useful topics, again for both Board of Directors and managers. As a volunteer programs coordinator, he is responsible for occasionally writing articles about the education luncheons he facilitates, which are featured in the OC View magazine. He is a previous volunteer member of the Community Associations Institute’s California Legislative Action Committee, which allows the participants to join the industry’s lobbyists responsible for making legislative changes in the best interest...

...of associations, on Capitol Hill in Sacramento. He was also a member of the education committee for his previous company allowing him the opportunity to encourage his co-workers to obtain & maintain their memberships and to obtain their professional designations by providing training, direction and motivation.

At the 2017 annual awards ceremony, held at the Disneyland Grand Hotel in California, hosted by the Orange County Chapter Community Associations Institute, he was awarded the “2016 Rising Star Award”, for his participation and volunteer work within the organization and his industry.

Before becoming a Community Manager, Flint decided he wanted to be just like his father and joined the Navy. Being a third generation veteran; a second generation sailor, has always made him feel very proud. A few months after graduating boot camp, the Desert Storm War began. This was a very dear time to him in his life. After the war, Flint and his fellow shipmates earned the “South West Asia” campaign service medal and the “National Defense” medal for the campaign America executed during Desert Storm. The “National Defense” medal was the same medal his father earned in the early seventies for his time served during the Vietnam War. Before he passed away, he gave Flint the medal he had earned, tarnished and many years old. It now resides right next to Flint’s, in his medal box, as well as, the 2 other medals and 2 distinguished ribbons he earned during his enlistment. It is a constant reminder of how patriotic his father was, by willing to allow his first born son to serve and protect this great country. Flint is also a Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) lifetime member with Santa Ana Post 10694, and a volunteer in the Emergency Room at the Veterans Affairs Hospital Long Beach, for the past ten years.

Shortly thereafter, he enrolled in the Santa Ana College where he pursued a degree in Criminal Justice. Flint graduated the Orange County Sheriff’s Academy in Tustin, CA, where he graduated number one in his class, voted Class President by his peers and earned the “Outstanding Officer” award.

After his son, Flint II, was born, he decided to change direction and pursue an alternative career. Flint found that by being a successful community manager, he was still able make a positive difference in the community, while satisfying his wife’s concern of the dangers involved in law enforcement.

It is important to Flint to set a positive example for his son and his entire family. Flint is goal oriented and encourages his loved ones to pursue the things that matter most to them in their lives. He has been instrumental in developing processes in a way to bridge the gap between the traditional practices and the new & improved digital world currently growing in his industry.

Flint is looking forward to spending time with each of you; getting to know you on a personal level and learning about your beautiful journey.