Broken record, beating that dead equine. Ya I get it...
I was on our HOA board for a very short time and try to enact a lot of change, website, e-mail, online payments, invoicing through QuickBooks. Just betterment of the 181 homes we have and our pool. I left after the President thought that texting pictures of checks back & forth was acceptable. I just said nope, I want no part of this and was out. My next step was a management company as dealing with the finances for 181 homes is a bit much as a volunteer. We needed to raise dues significantly because this isn't 1991 anymore when they were last increased but it never passed.
Fast forward to this past Dec. and a secret vote was held by the only remaining board member(president) and sanctioned by the HOA's lawyer to install 3 new board members. This was & is completely against our bylaws as it requires a form of campaigning and paper ballots mailed to each house. Then collected and counted by the secretary and validated by a third party. Mind you 20 people don't get to decide for 181. Well website is gone, domain name gone, e-mail gone, and now there is person claiming to be on the board asking for property info on Facebook which mind you is all in Quickbooks. It's a mess, I reported the lawyer to our state's ethics board because it is in our bylaws clear as day and he ignored it. I hope something will come of it but I'm not holding my breath. I tried getting the city & our AG involved but they want nothing to do with it.
Who else is having this much fun today?
I was on our HOA board for a very short time and try to enact a lot of change, website, e-mail, online payments, invoicing through QuickBooks. Just betterment of the 181 homes we have and our pool. I left after the President thought that texting pictures of checks back & forth was acceptable. I just said nope, I want no part of this and was out. My next step was a management company as dealing with the finances for 181 homes is a bit much as a volunteer. We needed to raise dues significantly because this isn't 1991 anymore when they were last increased but it never passed.
Fast forward to this past Dec. and a secret vote was held by the only remaining board member(president) and sanctioned by the HOA's lawyer to install 3 new board members. This was & is completely against our bylaws as it requires a form of campaigning and paper ballots mailed to each house. Then collected and counted by the secretary and validated by a third party. Mind you 20 people don't get to decide for 181. Well website is gone, domain name gone, e-mail gone, and now there is person claiming to be on the board asking for property info on Facebook which mind you is all in Quickbooks. It's a mess, I reported the lawyer to our state's ethics board because it is in our bylaws clear as day and he ignored it. I hope something will come of it but I'm not holding my breath. I tried getting the city & our AG involved but they want nothing to do with it.
Who else is having this much fun today?