Be carefull

A friend of mine who lives in Greenacres Fl. is President of their HOA , and a BIG toubler maker who has caused the whole BOD to resign, has been reading this web site, and found him asking questions, getting advice with other HOA's. He has been doing this for years and it is all been very helpful. Now the HOA is being taken over by the state and they are appointing someone to come in. Not good..so, think about what you are asking here. To bad its a beautiful web site. This "person" should be BANNED from it......

Sandy,

First of all, what a sad day in the history of your HOA that you had to resort to a State Recievership. The cost will make every member wonder why they did not do something to prevent this. I am sorry to hear that was the course that you needed to take.

Secondly, there is a disclaimer on the site which says that we offer "OPINIONS" Anyone who visits the site or posts here are looking to see how other situations are handled. The President of your HOA, no matter what kind of troublemaker he MIGHT be, has created that all by himeself. We who post, cannot be blamed for any lack of ownership in how your members have run your association. Recievership should be the last resort that you seek for running the association. Where was everybody when this was happening? One President does NOT make up a Board.

Donna, I think you may have misread Sandy.

The president is not the troublemaker. There is apparently a homeowner who has been on a long-term campaign to micro-manage the board over a period of years, second-guessing, criticizing decisions, engaging in letter-writing campaigns that serve only one purpose, to disrupt the board and diffuse them from engaging in their duties or to create chaos.

Apparently the board dwindled away as this PITA homeowner made it difficult for them to do their job, yet he offered no constructive contributions himself.

He apparently doesn't attend many of the meetings himself, but has others there who "report" back to him, then makes repeated and frivolous demands for various information, placing deadlines on the responses, questioning each and every decision or item that was discussed at the meeting, etc etc, all the while not showing up in person himself to hear things firsthand or discuss things as normal people do. We've all seen this type of resident before.

The PRESIDENT apparently has come to this site from time to time asking questions and using us as a sounding board and getting advice, etc. This PITA homeowner apparently reads the board, too, sort of "spying" on the president regarding the questions he's asking, etc.

I'm gathering this from the other posts Sandy has made on here, so if I'm wandering off-base, Sandy, please let me know.

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HOATalk, I think the warning from the OP is that someone is READING the posts here, not actually making contributions, and taking the information and using it against the president of the board who WAS posting here, but probably won't be any longer.

Again, that is how I'm following the breadcrumbs in this post (and mushing with other ones).

Here's one of her previous posts referring to the above:

Hehe, with the just plain ole aggressive ones being the OTHER half of the fun!

(I still have vivid memories of the resident who hurled a rake at me like a spear one day. This is why our board members must now use the buddy system when calling on "neighbors.")

Sandy, how did the state get envolved to take over your community, what was the process??