HOA durable goods storage

Divide it amongst the other board members to keep it in their places.

you can get a plastic 8x8 shed for about $800, sometimes they are even less used, as long as you have a decent bed of gravel they will last many years. if you just plop it on the dirt, they will settle over time and the doors will be hard to open.

Unfortuantely, I am pretty sure that a storage unit located on our community property would get broken into at least once per year, and stuff stolen or a mess made.

I think budgeting properly for a secure climate controlled storage unit is really the right thing to do even if it is $1200 or so a year. Everything is in one place, current Board has access to it and locks or combination codes can be changed if it becomes necessary. The lease of the space should be in the HOA name, not any indiviidual. The small units that are usually available should have enough room for yor current items plus room for more.

send out a flyer, email, facebook post, etc asking if anyone in the community would be willing to store the items and reimbruse them a couple hundred a year. Cheaper and more convienient than driving to a storage place outside the neighborhood.

he already mentioned that, hence his post.

Do I remember wrong, Michael, that you some kind of funky small common area rooms? I think you found files in them?

We had a storage closet built at the pool. The cost of construction was about a year's worth of storage unit rental fees.

My idea . . . stop buying stuff and it won't need to be stored. For now, since you created much of the issue that you're now complaining of, you should just continue to dedicate a small about of garage space to store those items (I count about 3 storage bins, a popcorn machine, and a PA system). Then when you're finished being a Board Member, you can hand them off to the next person and they can decide what to do. Or divide it among Board Members and keep track of who has what items.

The list keeps growing because you continue to advocate for the purchase of additional things rather than renting (PA System and wheel tape measure sound recently familiar). You don't want to rent these items because you feel it's more cost-effective to make the purchase instead of renting repeatedly. Now the items need to be stored and it's too much for your garage. So the new proposal is to rent a storage unit at an annual, recurring cost of $1200-2400/yr. Doesn't make the initial idea of purchasing items sound so great anymore.