Can an HOA be dissolved as the neighborhood turns almost completely rental

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My block is technically a HOA. No on has collected a due since the 1970s.

ZOOM is so 2020. My condo we meet as needed in real time. We are kinda Slack/Text/Gmail type crowd. We have not had a formal board meeting since 2016. Yes managing agent does that dog and pony show annual in person meeting.

But really just give me a google doc or a text. Dude it is 2026. And we only do Actionable items. No BS where we meet to talk about plants and whose doing what gossip fest like happens in person or on zoom.

Actions taken by the HOA likely wouldn't hold up if legally challenged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My block is technically a HOA. No on has collected a due since the 1970s.

ZOOM is so 2020. My condo we meet as needed in real time. We are kinda Slack/Text/Gmail type crowd. We have not had a formal board meeting since 2016. Yes managing agent does that dog and pony show annual in person meeting.

But really just give me a google doc or a text. Dude it is 2026. And we only do Actionable items. No BS where we meet to talk about plants and whose doing what gossip fest like happens in person or on zoom.

Actions taken by the HOA likely wouldn't hold up if legally challenged.

well it is a condo, and the state condo is in there is a reqirement to hold an Annual Meeting which we do. There is no requirement to hold board meetings. The offering plan clearly lists what board can do. There are no separate house rules.

So stuff is like yesterday, someone saw a mouse in boiler room, get message managing agent he needs to call externinator, I say as President do it and the Treasuer CC agrees. Last month a leak in roof same thing. All vendors are approved by board, not managing agent, we did RFPs, got recommendations, got great prices, they are insured and licensed.

We do NO borrowings, NO assessments, no optiionaly improvements to building. I am fully allowed to do "in kind" repairs or emergency repairs with no vote only. optional improvements ovewr $5,000 require a vote. We have never done on. Too many cheap people, older people, people who rent in building or peopel who dont care. I would need a majority vote for that and that would never.

My board has seven main jobs:
1) collect dues (use legal action to make it happen if necessary)
2) Keep. buildings and grounds in in good sharp and keep up on maint
3) respond quickly to issues that in our Bylays building is resonsible.
4) get Financial out with our CPA timely
5) once a year look at common charges and see if need to be adjusted based on our expenses
6) negoitate and approve master insurance
7) make sure all annual contacts, snow, lawn, serwer cleaning, sprinklers service gutter cleaning are in place and work done timely, good work and a good prices

We dont care if you rent out unit not in our bylaws. We dont charge a fee or get involved. We dont care if you redo your kitchen, we dont charge fee or get involved. If not in our bulaws we dont care. in fact we have no fees or approvals on anything, not the boards job.

therefore we never have legal issues or lawsuit . And why we have a managing agent, CPA and a Lawyer. And why no one on board can touch money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My block is technically a HOA. No on has collected a due since the 1970s.

ZOOM is so 2020. My condo we meet as needed in real time. We are kinda Slack/Text/Gmail type crowd. We have not had a formal board meeting since 2016. Yes managing agent does that dog and pony show annual in person meeting.

But really just give me a google doc or a text. Dude it is 2026. And we only do Actionable items. No BS where we meet to talk about plants and whose doing what gossip fest like happens in person or on zoom.

If no one has collected a "due" since the 1970s, how are you paying your managing agent and why hold an annual meeting if you have no financials?

[Anonymous]

We looked into dissolving our 87 home hoa in moco a few years ago. The moco rules state every homeowner has to agree that’s what they want to do. There’s no way we would have got everyone to respond. It would have required the 3-4 people on the board to do an inordinate amount of work including going door to door repeatedly.
We still have our hoa with extremely limited participation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My block is technically a HOA. No on has collected a due since the 1970s.

ZOOM is so 2020. My condo we meet as needed in real time. We are kinda Slack/Text/Gmail type crowd. We have not had a formal board meeting since 2016. Yes managing agent does that dog and pony show annual in person meeting.

But really just give me a google doc or a text. Dude it is 2026. And we only do Actionable items. No BS where we meet to talk about plants and whose doing what gossip fest like happens in person or on zoom.

If no one has collected a "due" since the 1970s, how are you paying your managing agent and why hold an annual meeting if you have no financials?

My house is in a “HOA” that stopped existing in 1976. Never formally. Funny MoCo still thinks it exists. My condo is active but bare minimum to collect dues, pay insurance maintain building no drama

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are your meeting via Zoom?

I love my neighborhood and wish I could go to the meetings, but at 6pm my small kids are home and I often don't have anyone to watch them. DH travels a lot for work.

I was on the board of my HOA before I moved. This was a common complaint. I’m in MCPS where SSL hours are mandatory for graduation. HOAs are actually civic engagement. I offered SSL hours to any HS that would attend and watch younger children. Worked out well. Parents of the of the HS attended, younger kids were brought to the meetings, and the parents of the younger kids attended as well.

As an added bonus, parents found new sitters in the neighborhood.