How active is your Board

Hi Krystal,
So run just like your board until homeowners have had enough. Read your bylaws and your cc&rs for your laws. If you are not having meetings write to the attorney general and he can enforce a law on the board.

In Cali we have a book called The Condominimum Blue Book which is laws that Davis-Stirlings proposes the law here.

Good luck!

We switched management companies last year due to the company sending us a new manager every 3 months for 2007. Never getting a straight answer as to why the annual numbers and the month numbers never match up and they had no solutions to homeowner problems. They told the board to defer on everything pretty much. The new local company is awesome. They are a couple run business and are up to date with technology. They don't bring a book for us to go through at meetings just the agenda and meeting related docs. The bulk of the papers that you’d get come in email, which we can review at our leisure and I am thankful for. I can look stuff up online while reviewing and print off if I need to. Saves the world paper and our meeting length is reasonable.

Our managers are available by plugoo and email more then phone unless you select the emergency prompts. A little frustrating but they answer emails with in a day usually. They do all the proactive leg work I might never have considered. I.e.; asking our long standing holiday lights guy for an early pay discount. He said sure! They also drop off our water bill as it's in the community to save us postage.

We usually have more meetings in spring with the landscape, pool and such getting situated for the year. Our board members are busy personally but we set the meetings up in advance (the end of the last meeting or by email shortly after) and then everyone can make it.

If there is stuff (homeowner requests) to discuss we talk about it through emails and come to a consensus for the management team.

We have a property manager that stays on top of things remarkably well, in my opinion. We tend to monitor the complex, since we live here and she doesn't, but she does a site visit on a monthly basis at a minimum.

We tend to conduct most business via email as well. Monthly financials and deliquent report is emailed leving it up to the individual board member to rpint or not.

Our property manager informs us via email of major homeowner issues, those that might require cost to the association or become difficult to handle if not dealt with delicately. We have our meetings scheduled for the year and fill in with additional meetings on an as need basis. Our property manager oversees getting any proposal we need for work and organizing walk throughs with vendors.