Transition Board Members

How do you define "transition board member"?

Do your Bylaws discuss "transition" board members? Or your state's corporations codes? I'm guessing someone in your HOA made up this title.

Are you on the Board??

No I'm Not on the Board

That’s a pretty wild scenario. The property manager, I am quite sure, has no authority to assign a board.

I think you need to read your bylaws and go from there.

Adding to what others have said, a common scenario is that homeowner positions on the board are tied to sales milestones. For example, for a community with a three-person board, 25% sold = 1 homeowner on the board, 50% sold = 2 homeowners, and 75% sold = full homeowner control. In my experience, the first homeowner *may* be appointed by the developer/builder/Declarant (and possibly by the property manager acting as an agent for the Declarant) but the others are elected by the homeowners at the annual meeting.

At the communities I've lived in, we began having annual meetings almost as soon as homes were being sold, and all homeowners on the board were elected by the membership at the meeting. Personal opinion: the sooner homeowners get the idea of how this stuff works, the smoother the transition.

It doesn't sound like the OP's community did things this way.

But to answer the OP's question, read the governing documents - especially the bylaws - to see what it says about elections of board members and transition to homeowner control. Also pay attention to bow appointed board members are handled (sometimes elected board members are handled differently from appointed ones).

But, JohnC, the OP wrote that the PM appointed this board, not the declarant.

That was my take on it.

People who are new to HOA living can misunderstand what they're looking at. For example: notification coming from the MC can lead people to assume that the MC was the one responsible when the agent was actually acting at the Declarant's direction.