Course of action options when everyone leaves a board

Based on the pattern of an association over recent years (eight directors have resigned), and the current situations with the board (down to three, indirect lawsuits, other adverse situations), there is a fair chance that everyone, or all but one person, resign at at anytime.

If that were to happen, what course of actions would be available to membership? Also, what happens if no party seeks receivership? It has few contractors*,and with their interaction being small dollars, I highly doubt any of those parties would file for receivership, and with no members wanting to be on the board, I could not see any members filing for receivership either.

*a power company from which it leases street lights, grass cutter who cuts grass on private property, owned by others not the Association, that fronts the subdivision, web hosting company, and maybe some lessor vendors, like private mail room were it rents a PO box, I have forgotten.

What Melissa said. There are many older conversations on this website about receivership and why it's generally a bad idea for everyone - read a few and you'll see for yourself. If you have any questions, you can bring them to this conversation to ensure you get updated information.

You've had several conversations about your community's dysfunction, so now's the time to either put up or shut up. It's ok to come to this website for ideas, but whether you want to face this or not, it may be YOU'RE the one who will need to get the turnaround started. If you don't do it, no one else will or people who don't know or care what the hell they're doing will take charge and all of you will wind up in a huge shitshow. You don't have to do this alone, nor should you, so get out of your house and start walking around the community to talk to your neighbors. Hopefully, you'll find some who are just as concerned as you are - all of you can start meeting and setting up a strategy.

If you or they are new to the ins and outs of HOA board membership, go to the CAI website and invest in some of their educational materials, starting with the Board member's toolkit. Your documents will also provide the bulk of the information you'll need regarding the board's responsibilities, so read them.

Before you begin, have a come-to-Jesus meeting with your neighbors and tell everyone what will happen in a receivership:

* Whoever's on the board can petition the court to appoint a receiver because no one's willing to volunteer for the board to do it. If the judge agrees, he or she will appoint the receiver. The receiver only answers to the judge, so it won't matter what the homeowners say about anything.

* The receiver's primary responsibility is to see that the association's bills are paid, so he or she probably won't care much about exterior change requests or rules enforcement - prepare for a free-for-all all in that regard. Then what will your neighborhood look, sound and smell like?

* Assessments will skyrocket because now you'll have to pay routine expenses (even if you don't have very many), fund reserves, pay the receiver's fee (which can be several hundred dollars an hour) AND court costs/attorneys fees. You already know what happens if you don't pay assessments, so people can shoot themselves in the head if they want to.

* Say bye-bye to property values - do YOU want to move into a HOA community where the homeowners have no say whatsoever?

Some will call these scare tactics, but whatever works. If people sit on their hands and do nothing, they get what they deserve. Good luck to you.

AS long as there is one person left on the BOD, that person can begin to construct a new BOD by appointing someone to the the BOD. Then the two of the find a 3rd they can agree on. Then the three find a fourth and if two of the 3 agree, the fourth is on the BOD. The 5th can be tough as 3 of the existing BOD have to vote for the fifth. So forth and so on until there is a full BOD.

My point was there are no third parties that would have an incentive to force receivership. Centerpoint leases about 9 or so already installed light poles at the cost of $20 a month for each. For ~$180 per month, I would not think Centerpoint's legal team would want to take the time and money to sue for receivership. The other parties are thing such as grass cutter, who may or may not be legal citizens, so I do not see them suing for receivership. I was just providing evidence of my train of thought that no outside party would have reason to force receivership.

You go into receivership and your HOA assessments will skyrocket because the receiver will spend your
assessments like a drunken sailor.

Rally your neighbors and yourself to run on the board to prevent this from happening.