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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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YEAH!!!
