About Gene Bicksler
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I have 45 years of experience in the community association management business. In June of 2018, my wife and I moved to Eugene, Oregon from the San Francisco Bay Area to be closer to our daughter's family and to enjoy a slower pace of life.
I began my career in 1979 and, after five years in Eugene and Portland, relocated to California in 1984. The decades since have included a range of professional experience including: live-in, on-site property manager; Senior Vice President of a large portfolio management company; General Manager of a large-scale PUD (planned unit development); and owner of two management companies. Having worked with large corporations (Tishman Speyer, Lehman Brothers) and small, low-income properties alike, I'm now serving clients as an independent consultant, drawing on broad experience and specialized expertise.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Bicksler and Associates | Eugene, Oregon | Consultant, 2018–Present
Offering consulting services to Oregon-based homeowners associations, developers and lenders. Expert witness services are available to the legal communities of both California and Oregon.
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Bicksler and Associates | San Francisco Bay Area | Founder, 1987–2018
Provided management and consulting services to homeowners associations, consulting services to developers and lenders, and expert consultation to the legal community.
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Community Associations Consulting | Dublin, California | Vice President, 1985–1987
Supervised management operations, new client set-up, and coordinated insurance for over 50 management contracts.
Rinconada Hills | Los Gatos, California | General Manager, 1984–1985
Managed an association of 394 townhomes, 40 single-family residences, five sub-associations, a tennis club, a swim club, and a lake located on one hundred landscaped acres.
Condominium Consultants, Inc. | Eugene/Portland, Oregon | Founder, 1981–1984
Provided management and consulting services to associations, lending institutions, and real estate developers.
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Association Manager and Student of CAI Co-Founder | ​1979-1984
While working concurrently in the above listed company, trained and studied with Mr. James Laughlin. Mr. Laughlin is recognized in the industry, along with Mr. David Wolfe, to be the early pioneers of community association management. Mr. Laughlin began his business in the early nineteen seventies and was co-founder of the national organization known as Community Associations Institute. When Mr. Laughlin sold his Virginia based company in 1978, he had offices in twelve states and three countries.
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Countryman Realty | Eugene, Oregon | Real Estate Department Manager, 1978
Managed office buildings, apartments, and condominium projects.
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On Site Manager | Eugene, Oregon | 1976
Managed large apartment property located in Eugene, Oregon.
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INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT
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Member, Community Associations Institute's Oregon Legislative Action Committee—A statewide select committee of professionals who monitor and lobby legislation that affects the community association industry. | Community Associations Institute | 2026
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Elected to the Board of Directors of Square One Villages, a not-for-profit development and management company in Eugene, Oregon. The organization builds limited-equity co-ops of tiny homes for low-income residents. | Square One Villages | 2025
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Appointed to the Reserves Task Force of the California Legislative Action Committee of California CAI Chapters to review the current reserve study laws and propose amendments to improve them. | California CAI Chapters | 2022​
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Appointed to the Condominium Reserve Study and Funding Public Policy Task Force, organized by the CAI's national office to address issues arising from Florida's Champlain Tower collapse and charged with identifying changes to best practices relating to reserve studies, funding, and maintenance. The task force completed its work in early 2022. | Community Associations Institute | 2022​​​
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Director, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Community Associations Institute | 1995–2010​​
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Co-Chair, California Association of Community Managers' Legislative Action Committee. This Committee lobbied for legislation affecting the community association industry. | California Association of Community Managers | 1993
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Founding Director, California Association of Community Managers, a statewide, 3000-member trade association of consultants and managers of community associations to increase professionalism in the industry. | California Association of Community Managers | 1991
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Member, Community Associations Institute's California Legislative Action Committee—A statewide, 20-member select committee of professionals that monitors and lobbies legislation that affects the community association industry. | Community Associations Institute | 1989, 2001–2002
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Member, Select Committee for the California Department of Real Estate tasked with evaluating the 1987 University of California report "Common Interest Homeowners' Association Study" | 1988
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President, Bay Area Chapter of Community Associations Institute, a national organization with membership of over 350 homeowners associations, managers, developers, attorneys, accountants, and public officials | 1988
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Active in the Oregon legislature's creation of the Planned Community Act, a comprehensive body of law detailing the development and operation of common interest subdivisions | 1981, 1983
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Founding Member, two Oregon-based chapters of Community Associations Institute | 1981
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS & AFFILIATIONS
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Certified Community Association Manager, Emeritus
California Association of Community Managers (CACM)
Awarded 1994
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Certified Manager of Community Associations
Community Associations Institute (CAI)
Awarded 1996
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EDUCATION
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University of Oregon | Eugene, Oregon
Studies in Real Estate and Business
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BOARD EXPERIENCE
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Mr. Bicksler has served as a developer representative on common interest development Board of Directors and as Board President of his own homeowner's association.
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MILITARY SERVICE
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United States Air Force | Vietnam Combat Veteran Honorably Discharged | 1971
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MEDIA
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Foreclosure Crisis Interview | National Public Radio (NPR) – Morning Edition | 2008
