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Sounds like a threat to me....Maybe someone should scare the living
daylights out of all HOA advocates....and sue your ass for violation of
constitutional rights. Did you forget we live in America?
"Claudia Satori" <csatori@espplanners.com> wrote in message
news:BF8D31E0.8667%csatori@espplanners.com...
>I go away for a while and we get REAL people with REAL concerns posting to
> this newsgroup. I'm so heartened.
>
> HOA info - DO NOT, DO NOT join the yahoogroups HOAnet, it is worse than
> here
> - if you can believe that. I'm starting a yahoogroup that will be
> tightly
> moderated to eliminate spam and rantings. To subscribe:
> usefulHOA-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
> ANNUAL MEETING TURNOUT: this group gave me a great suggestion - SCARE the
> living daylights out of owners. "sky is falling . . . Have to raise dues
> .
> . . World is coming to an end", you get the idea. We did that and
> actually
> had a quorum at our 2nd Annual Meeting attempt (since not enough the first
> time).
>
> SUB: please just ignore him
>
> TO AUDIT or NOT TO AUDIT: the independent audit is NOT supposed to just
> check the math, but also sees if it follows some rational line of
> accounting. I'll ask our auditor for her 2 cents on this.
>
> QUALITY SURVEY: I serve as the Community Liaison and get copied on ALL
> service requests that go to the mgmt company. All Hos get a postcard when
> a
> service request is done.
>
> NEW MGMT COMPANY: we finally did it, and I had to do it without you guys
> because of all the spam this group was getting. We RFP'd 10 companies,
> got
> bids from 6 companies, talked to references from all 6 and eliminated 3
> just
> from that. Asked 3 companies for interviews, had one drop out at this
> point, and finally settled on one. It cannot be ANY worse than the hell we
> have lived the last 2 years with the former company - a new mgr every
> quarter, and we finally got a GREAT mgr for the last 60 days. I can
> appreciate how it seems like stuff happens and you do not want to start all
> over again - but believe me, it is far less painful to endure the 30 days
> of
> changeover hell, then the ongoing day to day hell of a bad company. It is
> not realistic to do the management of a complex over 20 units without a
> management company.
>
> DECATUR CITY COUNCIL: this is a real catch 22, the residents thought they
> were buying one thing, and got another. It is nice of the city to offer
> to
> take it over, but then the residents have to abide by terms offered. If
> they want what they thought they were getting, then they need to set up an
> HOA or some variation thereof. Or sue the developer to pay for the legal
> to
> set up. But if no one wants to step up, then they get what is offered.
> ClaudCar
> HOA Board Member
> Newbury Park, CA
>
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