A Homeowner's Experience
This article tells what happens when someone moves into a homeowners association and does not even know that they are in one until they receive a letter that tells them of a meeting. The owner then found out that assessments are being raised and the members did not have a say it. Board members believed they had more power than they did. The homeowner challenged it and the adventure began.
Published on July 26, 2012.
The only way to defeat the board's action is to educate the members. This article tells how the homeowner sent information out to the homeowners before the meeting. Then it tells what happened at the meeting. The board the resigns and the excitement begins.
Published on July 26, 2012.
The Homeowner is elected to the board and now the work begins. How do we get the information from the previous board? How do we set up a democratic organization? Are all the board members on board?
Published on July 26, 2012.
Training people who have never served on a board to have proper nomination and elections procedures can be challenging. This article explains the entire procedure and shows the ballot and the proxy form.
Published on July 26, 2012.
So how do you handle these crises in an association and answer the letters when people do not want to follow the state laws or run an association according to the laws of the land. Read and find out.
Published on July 26, 2012.
The battle still goes on. The bylaws committee is fired by the board and they hire an attorney to take over revising the bylaws and covenants. He does it according to what he thinks is right. He comes to the members with canned documents and the members want them changed.
Published on July 26, 2012.
This article discusses the AZ law that was changed in 2005 allowing absent ballots in homeowners association instead of proxies.
Published on July 26, 2012.
This article tells hat happened at the meeting where the proposed new covenants and bylaws were presented for a vote. Because we new parliamentary procedure and what rights we had as members, we were able to short circuit the board's plans. Read to how it was done.
Published on July 26, 2012.