Our POA residents haven't paid dues in years...

I honestly feel like if you're owed $200k, you need to find the means to hire a lawyer. My HOA is undergoing a similar situation, and our statues of limitations in GA, according to our lawyers, mean that we can only collect on debt that is under 7 years old (or whatever the time limit is), and any debt beyond that is out of our hands.

I agree with the previous responses and will add that you might be able to find a collections attorney that just adds their fee to the balance due from homeowners and works on contingency.

JohnC & Douglas have good insights, Joshua. You need to get as much of those $$$$s as you can for the good of your HOA.

A POA resident may not be required to pay assessments UNLESS they also an OWNER/MEMBER.

Dues implies voluntary.

Resident implies tenant (which they may actually be).

Assessments are MANDATORY

Owners are mandatory assessment payers.

Y'all are a business, use the proper terminology.

I am in the same predicament, I took over the Presidency a little over 4 months ago, and I am dealing with a Home Owner that does not keep their yard clean, trash all over the place and have not paid a fine for over a year, and have not paid dues since living in this Home Owners Association, I am an ex Command Sergeants Major US Army Artillery and I am not used to this failure to follow orders, I asked the CAM Manager why is this happening, she stated that we can send them letters and fine them, but our hands are tied, I need to know what do I or if there is anything I can do. Florida

You can do a variety of things, possibly up to and including foreclosure. As mentioned upthread, talk to an attorney versed in HOA collections to find out your options.

I'm honestly a bit surprised that your CAM doesn't know more about the options to collect.

We have the same problem in our POA in Florida. But the residents are refusing to pay because the POA hasn't done maintenance in the subdivision in 3 yrs. We have tried to contact an attorney nobody wants to touch it. We get very limited maintenance from the county on our main blvd. Some residence have even bought the material to repair their roads because of wash outs. I have contact WMD, EPA, County Commissioner and our Senator about the problems. We pay taxes for waterfront property and its a weed bed. Now because the members won't pay the board has turned all pass due accounts over to a collection agency. I'm sorry, but we live in a private subdivision, our community rules don't match the county or any other outside agency, because we have called for help but nobody can do anything. And a POA is a not for profit, but you get charged almost double for past dues, but we can't even get the front entrance mowed and it looks like we live in the slums? Realtors are complaining about the conditions of the subdivision, but the sitting board, who chose to put themselves on the board again last year, because we asked for the POA to dissolve and they say its not that any. We ask for an audit and they tell us by law they can't do one. But in our by laws it says that once a year they have to give us a financial review by a 3rd party and they say they don't. Our covenants and by laws were based on the 617, which have never been changed, so the board picks and choose what laws it wants to follow. For 2 years they have supposedly been rewriting the by laws, they show us nothing and now we don't even have a members meeting because they say that we don't have a quorum of all the property owners. There is a guard rail under the berm of dirt in the second picture. Our front entrance has a dump on it and a huge mound of clay with falling down fencing that the horse stables have been trashed by previous boards. I live in the ghetto of Hamilton County Florida and its sad.

BOD's and MC's can send all the letters they want but until a lawyer gets involved and threatens legal action, the letters are not worth a pee hole in a snow bank. This comes from experience.