I think I’m going to try to campaign that rental community, and I think I’m going to try to unseat someone on the board. There’s at least one other individual that wants to run for a board seat next election too. So we might do this, just to be a pain in the ass. Because, although an HOA can be a pain in the ass, so can I.
I think if there really are more owners that work as one big group, it’s more of a bigger threat. $4600 is the cost of replacing the window. If 20 homeowners are all on the same page that $92,000.
The problem with suing the HOA is that if they lose, it ends up coming back to the homeowner…That’s why I think it’s just better to try to unseat the incumbents on the board, and once on the board, figure out what really happened.
The biggest challenge is just trying to reach out to the other owners. This community is less than 50% owner occupied, many of the owners probably don’t even think much about what the HOA is doing and just cuts the check when they tell them too. So my challenge is just finding out how to reach more of the owners in the community.
That said, after I reach out to those owners and tell them about this $4600 “optional” replacement program, I’m sure they would just be as livid as I was, and probably vote out the incumbents next time. I sure will.
I guess worst comes to worst, I can sell this unit next year too for a decent gain…
