12-06-2016, 12:35 AM
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Originally posted by macuu222
How about we just double our yearly maintenance fee to $600.00 a year. I'm willing to pay that to get "all" our roads and easements back on routine maintenance. That's less than $2.00 a day to continue to pay off our debt and get the roads and easements under control.
Respectfully,... No, I not going to say it!
One does not throw more money into a black hole, let alone without demanding an audit.
This situation will not change until us owners get serious and litigate against the association. It is the only way to put the issues on the table so all these conundrums are addressed. We owners need legal counsel at this point. The Board cannot longer be allowed to collect fees without a full audit and total reorganization to address their inability to maintain the roads they were mandated to keep up with our contributions. Nothing will ever get resolved no matter how much we dissect the issue in a web forum. The Board has proven to be totally inadequate to manage the association, there is no more to add to it. No change will ever get implemented unless it is directed by the courts.
What is the other option?, keep paying without questioning and getting nothing in return? Paying a little bit more every year to keep an infrastructure of office staff and a crew that do nothing?, because they do nothing!... Besides collecting a paycheck. A little mowing here and there and then go home when the clock hits 3pm is doing nothing when all our contributions pooled together amount to millions of dollars that must go to road maintenance.
I personally rather we don't have an association and mow my street myself. For crying out loud we already do that once a month for less than a hundred dollars among a dozen neighbors. Been filling potholes as well, and triming overhanging tree limbs that were dripping water onto the road. We have been needing rock for the road for eons, and the last time the office did it was because I dragged the inflated pompous twit of the manager out of the office and basically told him how it should be done and by when. It was pathetic to watch a crew of certified morons grade the road and put down half of the rock it should have been ordered. They do not have a clue how to properly grade a road that is exposed to erosion from heavy downpours. They don't care, manager doesn't care and the board does not listen. They are not accountable because owners have their heads stuck to the ground. In my road we might as well we hire our own grader and split the cost for the rock ourselves instead of paying a useless association that only provides jobs to a pool of lazy and useless staff. We cannot wait any longer.
You cannot fix stupid.
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