DavidL34 (Florida)
Posts: 4
Posts: 4
Posted:
This is my first post here. I'm not sure if I am supposed to break out each of the problems below into an individual post or if it's ok to lump them in this one post. Please let me know if I did this wrong.
I would like some advice on how to handle some problems at our COA.
I'm the president of a 5 unit condominium association. I'm intending to add some restrictions to our ByLaws because unfortunately we have an owner who is trying to provoke confrontation. Since nothing else has worked I'm hoping that imposing fines will stop the worst of the behavior.
Problem #1:
An owner is periodically banging or slapping on his common walls which is really loud. Do I need to have a special bylaw for this? How many or how often do these slaps have to occur to be fined? Can I fine him for each "outburst" or only once per day?
Problem #2:
He also recently was swinging a golf club in his unit whacking the floor for extended periods of time. He has been seen taking the golf club onto the balcony and swinging it there as well.
I want to add a Bylaw that requires all sports equipment, bats, hockey sticks, golf clubs and the like to be stored either in garages or the owners vehicle and not allow any of those items to be transported through common use areas. Can I do this?
Problem #3:
On at least one occasion he was standing naked a few feet into his unit but in front of a glass sliding door and when that person walked past his door the naked owner spoke to the passerby to draw his attention.
Can we impose fines for indecent exposure when in their own unit but in view of the common areas?
Problem #4:
Skunky pot smell in the hallway outside his unit door. In Washington it is legal to smoke pot. But the smell is getting worse and I think he is intentionally blowing it out onto the hallway just to be a pain in everyone's rear end. I think that because he once asked me if I was going to start complaining about his smoke getting into the hallway and that was before it began to stink.
Problem #5:
Loud music. We have had the police out at least once and he was cited at that time for excessive noise. But he is still doing it. Especially on weekend evenings but not only then.
We have notified him that loud music will result in a fine.
I would like some advice on how to handle some problems at our COA.
I'm the president of a 5 unit condominium association. I'm intending to add some restrictions to our ByLaws because unfortunately we have an owner who is trying to provoke confrontation. Since nothing else has worked I'm hoping that imposing fines will stop the worst of the behavior.
Problem #1:
An owner is periodically banging or slapping on his common walls which is really loud. Do I need to have a special bylaw for this? How many or how often do these slaps have to occur to be fined? Can I fine him for each "outburst" or only once per day?
Problem #2:
He also recently was swinging a golf club in his unit whacking the floor for extended periods of time. He has been seen taking the golf club onto the balcony and swinging it there as well.
I want to add a Bylaw that requires all sports equipment, bats, hockey sticks, golf clubs and the like to be stored either in garages or the owners vehicle and not allow any of those items to be transported through common use areas. Can I do this?
Problem #3:
On at least one occasion he was standing naked a few feet into his unit but in front of a glass sliding door and when that person walked past his door the naked owner spoke to the passerby to draw his attention.
Can we impose fines for indecent exposure when in their own unit but in view of the common areas?
Problem #4:
Skunky pot smell in the hallway outside his unit door. In Washington it is legal to smoke pot. But the smell is getting worse and I think he is intentionally blowing it out onto the hallway just to be a pain in everyone's rear end. I think that because he once asked me if I was going to start complaining about his smoke getting into the hallway and that was before it began to stink.
Problem #5:
Loud music. We have had the police out at least once and he was cited at that time for excessive noise. But he is still doing it. Especially on weekend evenings but not only then.
We have notified him that loud music will result in a fine.