alleged squator

Contact the police. Explain that to your knowledge only workers are to be in the unit and it appears that someone else is now there. Explain that you contacted the owner and he insists that only owners are to be on the property. Then let the police investigate.

Here's the deal...We had a squator living in our HOA once. He was caught because his dog attacked someone. We contacted the owner who lived out of state to find out this person was NOT authorized to be living in this house. The owner had a lease with the man's ex-girlfriend NOT him. The president at the time had to go to court to testify about the man living in home and seeing him out in the neighborhood on a daily basis. The owner was able to evict him out of the home.

However, this does NOT seem to be the case you stated. The owner does seem to recognize people are in his unit. The HOA has sent notices to them stating as such. After that the HOA has NO business involving itself in the situation. It is up to the OWNER to decide if they want to allow a possible squater to live in their property or not. It is NOT the HOA's. The HOA responsibility is to make sure the owner is paying their HOA dues. Unless you all have some kind of rental restrictions in place (Which aren't always enforceable), then it's none of the HOA's business. The HOA can only make and hold the owner aware of the situation.

Let the owner call the police if it's indeed someone not welcomed into their property. It's their responsibility and their property. The other people like yourself can be witnesses that there is someone living there rent free. However, involving yourselves in evicting them isn't.

It sounds like your owner is very much aware that he is violating the 55+ restriction. I have never heard of anyone installing new cable TV service for the benefit of construction workers.

On another subject, I digressed to this subject. I was advised to have the owner come to a Board meeting for a hearing where it could be fined for having someone underage living in the unit. This sounds like a resolution we should make as I know that two years ago (I wasn't on the Board at the time) the Board had to kick two families out. One was a couple froml my church. The owner had told them to keep a low profile. The Board just did this, but the case with the young man in unit 215 is a little different because the owner informed us "workmen" would be ocming and going.

For our HOA in NC we recently looked into becoming a 55+ community. The current rules are that 80% of homes/units, etc have at least one resident 55. If the "person" living there is under 55 it makes no difference if you still have 80% of the units/homes/condo's, etc. with at least one resident over 55.

The 55+ rules are written this way so a sponse who is not 55 can't be asked to move if the one resident who is over 55 dies/divorce, enters assisted living, etc.

Unless the 55+ rule was in the original documents at the inception of the HOA it's just about impossible to add it later. In today's housing market you will never get 75% (or whatever your HOA requires) to go 55+...why should they restrict their sales options....?

Our documents actually require a resident to be 57 or older with the only exception being that a spouse may be younger. We have almost 100% of residents 57 or older. We have a few that are just 55 or close to 55.
I am well aware of the 80% rule and the reason it exists. This rule was not made so that a person younger than 55 can move into an unoccupied unit.
The law does state that empty units must be reserved for those 55 or over.

These stored items are not in plain sight in the yard. This is a 43 unit condominium with parking spaces in the building.