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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Term limits would solve this issue.[/quote]

I am not poster but I am on year 9 in my position and we are supposed to have annual elections. Have not had one on three years as cant get quorum at meetings. We even have to go door to door getting proxies. We also have folks who don’t share info at all.

So if I quit just no one does it. They do like to complain verbally to people over flowers, gossip etc but not actually helpful. And a few of them are crooks who join board and leave. Like the guy who owned a snowplow company wanted is to use his firm and we explain we have RFP process and to bid to insured and license business and he wanted his uses at double cost. One meeting.

Then good people get burnt out. [/quote]

OP here and all of this. Our association docs cover all these procedures and it’s very hard to get people to participate enough to do things by the book. Even when I became president, it was irregular— the outgoing president (who was selling his house) recruited me because no one had volunteered for it, and when too few people showed up to the election meeting, we had to get the remaining votes via e-mail proxy in order to finish it. That’s why we have infilled positions. I have been working on recruiting at least a secretary for three years since our last one left but no one will do it. There are only ever a couple people willing to take this on at a given time.

Also, for the record, our HOA is well run. Healthy reserve fund and all services come in on or under budget every year, even when we’ve had to change vendors. In the time I’ve been here we’ve only had one major expenditure, a street resurfacing that was desperately needed, and we were able to find it from reserves without a special assessment. One reason all the complaints from the new neighbors are frustrating is that they don’t seem to understand that our HOA has all the fundamentals down— good money management, regular and good sister maintenance, regular meetings but not a lot of burdensome time commitment required of people.

So when I’m getting complaints about something relatively minor or one-off, I feel frustrated that there is no good will from them. Like a recent complaint from them involved street parking by visitors, because a neighbor has a barbecue and it did cause some street parking issues on that day. So I even agreed with their complaint and agreed we should come up with a solution that will prevent that issue from happening again. But they were so rude about it, and took out their frustration with the party hosts on me, like I’d personally endorsed what had happened. I wasn’t even in town that weekend! It’s like there is no good will from them and any response from me other than “yes thank you I will take care of this right away” makes them mad, but that’s what I mean by feeling like they think I work for them.

I also think they could be handling a lot of this stuff on their own. Even the parking thing— if they’d just called or approached the party host to explain the problem, I’m certain the problem would have been addressed immediately. But instead they stew about it all weekend and then contact me. Like part of home ownership is dealing with your neighbors and resolving stuff like this in a mature, adult way. It feels a little like they just need to develop some of these skills.[/quote]

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