Budget breakdowns

welcome, MikeG. I'm not the one to look up OH statutes, but someone here may be kind enough to do it for you. CA requires this "breakdown" be sent to Owners before the beginning of every budget year.

What you can easily do on your own is to read your HOA's bylaws and CC&Rs (aka, convents, restrictions, declaration). Our bylaws, for instance, list all of the HOA records that Owners can inspect.

What Kerry said. You might also want to take a look at this link: http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/5312

While you're reading this, note when these various statutes took effect - sometimes HOAs that were in existence at the time the law was enacted are execpt, and sometimes not. That's why I always recommend people go to a private attorney if they want answers to legal questions.

I also say if the HOA is full of caca (and many of there are in one form or another), it's usually because the HOMEOWNERS aren't keeping the board (who they elect and reelect) in check. If you want to change things, talk to some of your neighbors - you may find they're just as pissed as you and if all of you work together, you might be able to get this group to straighten or rally everyone together and toss them. Just be sure you have people ready to step up and serve

Thank you for the website info.

No, it's never simple or quick to bring power mad presidents to heel, but it's not impossible to resolve - if you have the will, are patient, plan your offensive carefully and get like minded neighbors behind you. You have 55 homes, meaning you have at least 55 owners, whereas this is one person. Are you telling me 54 people can't handle one person? As for the other board members, I'm sure the rest of you still outnumber them, so if they go along with everything this man is doing, you need to put them out as well.

I do understand the ones who are afraid to speak up, but this is their home and community and someone needs to make it clear to them that if they don't like the way things are going, but fail to do anything about it, nothing will change. No one wants to cause a rift, but remember the words of Frederick Douglass - power concedes nothing without demand - it never has and it never will.

As for the management company,, they work at the board's direction, so if they're only listening to this guy and no one else, maybe they need to be the next to go.

Where to begin? Your statement "Selling a product to the HOA because he is unhappy with it and replacing that item. So essentially taking money out of our budget for his own personal needs" is confusing. Is that supposed to read "the HOA purchased something, he didn't like it and replaced it?" Was it one item or half a dozen? How do you know this is what happened and HOA money was involved? Have you confronted the board about this (particularly in front of your neighbors so they can hear the answers as well?

In California HOA's are governed by state laws and cc&r's and bylawas are written to comply with those laws. If your by laws don't tell you to do a budget and how to do that budget you maybe can go to state laws.

There are bigger issues than the budget. They claim they passed one out at the first meeting they ever held in September. I think they should mail them out to everybody. That's what happened when I lived in a condo. So if you miss a meeting, you'll still get one. They are a poor excuse for a company.

It doesn't look like Mike has checked OH state laws yet.

Some states like CA, JohnC, require the budget be sent lonie or via US mail every year along with a lot of other materials, a summary of the reserves study, for instance. Mike needs to learn what's required in OH.