VickyV (California)
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I own a condo in Palm Springs CA, this past year the board president has assigned his own tenant who is not a home owner a position of Vice President. The tenant was not voted in, or even on the last ballot to be voted in.
According to our CC&R's a Board member must be in good standing and be a homeowner. When this was brought to the presidents attention, his response was "what are you going to do about it". This same board member "vice president" is also the paid manager, and was hired by the board president.
Many violation meetings are just heard by the president and the vice president and one other board member. Since this board member was never voted in and is not a homeowner, would this not make it an illegal board?
We have no property management company the board president fired the property management company and took on the role of self management. The president also serves as the treasurer. So many off site owners don't want to saying anything in fear of the board forcing their tenants out, or accumulating large fines for allegedly violating association rules.
It's sad that someone has this much power over the homeowners. Anyone who dares to disagree with the board president finds themselves in a bad situation. I have tried to go against this man, only to be accused of violating rules and issued large fines for things I did not do. But when you go to the violation hearings one does not stand a chance when the witnesses to the rule violations are the president and his tenant.
Most peoples response will be to move, but right now as much as I would like to do that it is not financially possible.
It seems like there is no government agency to turn to. No one that steps in on the owners behalf. In the meantime our board gets away with bullying people, fining people for rules they did not break. And hold board meeting with members that are not permitted to even be on the board.
What can be done?
According to our CC&R's a Board member must be in good standing and be a homeowner. When this was brought to the presidents attention, his response was "what are you going to do about it". This same board member "vice president" is also the paid manager, and was hired by the board president.
Many violation meetings are just heard by the president and the vice president and one other board member. Since this board member was never voted in and is not a homeowner, would this not make it an illegal board?
We have no property management company the board president fired the property management company and took on the role of self management. The president also serves as the treasurer. So many off site owners don't want to saying anything in fear of the board forcing their tenants out, or accumulating large fines for allegedly violating association rules.
It's sad that someone has this much power over the homeowners. Anyone who dares to disagree with the board president finds themselves in a bad situation. I have tried to go against this man, only to be accused of violating rules and issued large fines for things I did not do. But when you go to the violation hearings one does not stand a chance when the witnesses to the rule violations are the president and his tenant.
Most peoples response will be to move, but right now as much as I would like to do that it is not financially possible.
It seems like there is no government agency to turn to. No one that steps in on the owners behalf. In the meantime our board gets away with bullying people, fining people for rules they did not break. And hold board meeting with members that are not permitted to even be on the board.
What can be done?