IreneC (North Carolina)
Posts: 111
Posts: 111
Posted:
I have currently lived at our complex 6.5 years. I have served on the board for about 5 years with a few breaks in between for personal reasons. I myself have not sit on the board for the entire 5 years mind you. Our community is like most. Many apathetic homeowners who only show to a meeting with a grip or violation letter in tow.
Like most communities or HOA's our finances are of a huge concern giving the recent economic status of most states, there have been a few fore closures and such. Our building is maintained fairly, but could be better and being on the board I would grade it as a C honestly.
Our annual meeting was last night. Previous years showed bad response, voting minimal and often we had to go door to door to obtain signatures, ballots ect to meet quarum! Pretty bad history.
This year we had 63% of homeowners vote! We had 9 people running for a 7 person board.. I have never seen this kind of response. What caused it? Something very different.
~An anonymous letter was sent to the 60+ homeowners back in February. It was not viewed by me as malicious, but pretty truthful but also painted a picture of a board that was having bad internal issues. Our budget was poorly planned, saw alot of on the fence decisions be made by those who changed their minds like most do undergarments, we had loads of side conversations that most were not previe too... way too much information to share, but what was shared in this letter reflected this and many other specific issues.. and it caused a huge huge stir. Board members openly accused others of writing and penning letters.. without cause or merit... board members made this public news to neighbors about other board members.. finances were in question.. lots of good attention from homeowners due to a bad method though.
How can we keep the community involved? Our previous president who insisted on doing projects like community news letters.. never did them. I have emails from Feb where I offered to do this for her and she said no, it's going out next week... ( that never happend.. no letter or posting of our annual meeting was done.. despite her stating she would do it, failure to follow through, bad communication,)
I would love to hear any different ideas on how to keep everyone involved. {Past perfromance from the board was unable to stimulate involvement.. anonymous letters did but that really was not a completely positive approach}
Like most communities or HOA's our finances are of a huge concern giving the recent economic status of most states, there have been a few fore closures and such. Our building is maintained fairly, but could be better and being on the board I would grade it as a C honestly.
Our annual meeting was last night. Previous years showed bad response, voting minimal and often we had to go door to door to obtain signatures, ballots ect to meet quarum! Pretty bad history.
This year we had 63% of homeowners vote! We had 9 people running for a 7 person board.. I have never seen this kind of response. What caused it? Something very different.
~An anonymous letter was sent to the 60+ homeowners back in February. It was not viewed by me as malicious, but pretty truthful but also painted a picture of a board that was having bad internal issues. Our budget was poorly planned, saw alot of on the fence decisions be made by those who changed their minds like most do undergarments, we had loads of side conversations that most were not previe too... way too much information to share, but what was shared in this letter reflected this and many other specific issues.. and it caused a huge huge stir. Board members openly accused others of writing and penning letters.. without cause or merit... board members made this public news to neighbors about other board members.. finances were in question.. lots of good attention from homeowners due to a bad method though.
How can we keep the community involved? Our previous president who insisted on doing projects like community news letters.. never did them. I have emails from Feb where I offered to do this for her and she said no, it's going out next week... ( that never happend.. no letter or posting of our annual meeting was done.. despite her stating she would do it, failure to follow through, bad communication,)
I would love to hear any different ideas on how to keep everyone involved. {Past perfromance from the board was unable to stimulate involvement.. anonymous letters did but that really was not a completely positive approach}