How to get director term limits when directors don't want it

Is there a way to change election rules to institute term limits without support of the board? Hopefully not a dumb question.

Or start talking to your state legislators. Have fun. What's the worst that could happen, nobody
wants to serve on the board or you TLO all your owners and your HOA goes into receivership.

It's not a dumb question, but as kerry said, you have to find people who are willing to run and serve on the board. Be honest, is that what you have? If not, it might not be a good idea to get rid of those who have been willing to do so.

You already have the ability to limit people to one or two terms by simply voting them out. If they've been trying to manipulate things to hang on to the position, like foolishness involving proxies, you may need to call a special homeowners meeting to discuss that and vote them out via a recall. If none of your neighbors are willing to take that step, you got bigger problems than a board who keep hanging on.

Even then, your issues won't go away overnight. There is a transition period where the newbies get acquainted with the running of the association and then then they can consider what needs to be changed. Thst may take a few months or longer, depending on how hard they want yo work and are willing to listen. Who can you think of who might be better suited to hit the ground running?

And what about you? Are you willing to run and then learn,, as well as have tge stomach to sit in the hot seat? Just as things start to turn around, do you want someone to say "you're very good, but we have term limits now, so girl, bye!"

I second/third the comments about what happens if you don't have anyone willing the replace the board members you've booted out. Many associations have to beg, plead, and twist arms to get people to volunteer - why would you want to remove people who want to continue to serve?

You already have ways to remove board members: the annual election and the special meeting (if a director is so bad that you don't want to wait for his term to end). All term limits do is give apathetic homeowners an excuse to not do what they should be doing. If they don't like the results of that, then perhaps they'd better get with the program.