Document request, release of information.

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RichardL7 (Colorado)
Posts: 105

Posted:

In the past few months I have been working to receive information from the Association management company in regards to a contract. A letter of demand was issued and the situation settled and closed, I did prevail. This was related to Association contract. Question, after the legal proceedings are completed. Can such paperwork and related information I have be made available to other homeowners to review? Many want to know what the outcome was. I have not released any info.

In regards to my demand letter. I prevail in my request. Thanks to you people on the Internet. God bless you all. One man was very instrumental in this.( Remember the legal jargon statement?) I do not remember what his name was but, if you read this you'll know.

Thanks:
Rich

MelissaP1 (Alabama)
Posts: 13,836

Posted:

Is it public information or was this a settlement? Depends on if it was a public decision or there was caveats it be private. No reason why can't tell the outcome. Why the need to cock a doo about it?

Former HOA President

AugustinD
Posts: 3,698

Posted:

RichardL7, are you asking if a copy of the contract, that you sought and apparently now have, can be distributed to other owners? If so, and if the association did not state that there were any limits on your distributing it, then in my opinion, you may distribute it to other owners and only other owners.

(Even if the association spoke or wrote of limits on your distributing the contract, I doubt these limits are lawful.)

I would not post the contract on the internet.

I believe this latest thread pertains to the thread at https://www.hoatalk.com/Forum/tabid/55/forumid/1/postid/309661/view/topic/Default.aspx

For the archives: Colorado condo law permits owners to see current contracts. This is not true in all states.

RichardL7 (Colorado)
Posts: 105

Posted:

Good afternoon, one and all:
I have received information that is essential to your questions. It has been established in no uncertain terms that the management company acted in violation of the Colorado state statutes and the Association bylaws and related documents. Also been informed that the information can be made available to those in the Association that wishes to read the outcome of the case. It was an act of reprisal, an act of willful disrespect to our Association bylaws and the state of Colorado statutes. They deliberately, and willfully and in a dictatorial attitude attempted to keep said contract from the Association and myself. The letter of demand was for pages and I can tell you the attorney laid it on them hard. I was extremely pleased.

The slogan for the Association should be to protect and serve, not to control and dictate and that's what has happened. Sad to say, the board fell along with this and was aiding and abetting the situation. The board that are all men caved in to the two women running the management company. In short, they were seduced ( No, no, not sexually ) and were on the apron strings of the management company. The management company was running the board. To protect and serve was not their motto, but to control and intimidate.

The only question I have now for the board and the management company, who paid their attorney fees. Did the Association or did the people involved. I know I paid mine. The demand letter was not to the Association, but to the property manager herself.
Rich.

TimB4 (Tennessee)
Posts: 21,062

Posted:

More then likely, the board didn't know and deferred to those who appeared to know.

KellyM3 (North Carolina)
Posts: 2,239

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Posted By RichardL7 on 02/11/2022 9:48 AM
Good afternoon, one and all:
I have received information that is essential to your questions. It has been established in no uncertain terms that the management company acted in violation of the Colorado state statutes and the Association bylaws and related documents. Also been informed that the information can be made available to those in the Association that wishes to read the outcome of the case. It was an act of reprisal, an act of willful disrespect to our Association bylaws and the state of Colorado statutes. They deliberately, and willfully and in a dictatorial attitude attempted to keep said contract from the Association and myself. The letter of demand was for pages and I can tell you the attorney laid it on them hard. I was extremely pleased.

The slogan for the Association should be to protect and serve, not to control and dictate and that's what has happened. Sad to say, the board fell along with this and was aiding and abetting the situation. The board that are all men caved in to the two women running the management company. In short, they were seduced ( No, no, not sexually ) and were on the apron strings of the management company. The management company was running the board. To protect and serve was not their motto, but to control and intimidate.

The only question I have now for the board and the management company, who paid their attorney fees. Did the Association or did the people involved. I know I paid mine. The demand letter was not to the Association, but to the property manager herself.
Rich.

Is this text an email you're sending throughout your community? I hope not. It will make it easier for saavy board members to discredit you due to editorial flourish and your clear emotion.

AugustinD
Posts: 3,698

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Posted By RichardL7 on 02/11/2022 9:48 AM
Good afternoon, one and all:
I have received information that is essential to your questions. It has been established in no uncertain terms that the management company acted in violation of the Colorado state statutes and the Association bylaws and related documents. Also been informed that the information can be made available to those in the Association that wishes to read the outcome of the case. It was an act of reprisal, an act of willful disrespect to our Association bylaws and the state of Colorado statutes. They deliberately, and willfully and in a dictatorial attitude attempted to keep said contract from the Association and myself. The letter of demand was for pages and I can tell you the attorney laid it on them hard. I was extremely pleased.

The slogan for the Association should be to protect and serve, not to control and dictate and that's what has happened. Sad to say, the board fell along with this and was aiding and abetting the situation. The board that are all men caved in to the two women running the management company. In short, they were seduced ( No, no, not sexually ) and were on the apron strings of the management company. The management company was running the board. To protect and serve was not their motto, but to control and intimidate.

The only question I have now for the board and the management company[is : [W]ho paid their attorney fees[?]. Did the Association or did the people involved[?] I know I paid mine. The demand letter was not to the Association, but to the property manager herself.

If this did not go to court, and the signs are that the HOA attorney handled this, then the Association (meaning all the members) paid the HOA attorney's bill.

RichardL7 paid an attorney to write a letter which I imagine recited the law and implied or asserted that a lawsuit would follow if the HOA did not follow the law.

Winners, AFAIC: HOA attorney and RichardL7's attorney.

If RichardL7 thinks his getting the contract to which Colorado law entitles him was worth what he paid his attorney, then I guess RichardL7 is a winner as well.

Losers: The membership for electing a cr-ppy Board and so incurring HOA attorney fees for which they all must pay.

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