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It looks like your HOA stopped functioning a long time ago. First of all, you need a fully occupied HOA board. Just a president and a secretary? That doesn’t sound right. You need a board FULL of people, 3 at least, with different roles. Ours has a President, a VP, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and 2 other board members. Check your state laws and bylaws. They for sure have board member requirements and minimums.

Next, make sure you elect COMPETENT board members. Elections are supposed to happen once a year at the annual membership meeting. DO SOMETHING TO FORCE THINGS RIGHT. Get homeowners to band together and sign a petition. Demand for change. Force an election to happen. Then, if you can, run for a position on the board yourself. It sure sounds like you care enough to make things better.

Third, you can VOTE THOSE PEOPLE OUT. If you have ineffective board members, you can remove them from power. Your state laws and bylaws should tell you how to do that. Usually it calls for a vote from the members.

Your fee system sounds effed up. The only way to set things right and get back on track is to elect effective people to the board. You can complain and report all you want, but it’s just going to keep happening unless the right people are in power.

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There’s just something about him. He has shifty eyes. I don’t trust him.

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That makes sense. But I still think the BOD President cannot be trusted.

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To add to the above point, I recommend allowing only homeowners to rent your facilities, although that might not supplement your budget by too much since you are only 20 homes. But not allowing the general public to rent out the facilities is a good way to limit liability I think. Based on my experiecne anyway.

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Our community association manager handles bills payments, delinquency notices and tracking, fee collections, and accounting. She doesn’t do on-site visits, it’s more of remote work, but we do see her every now and then, especially during tax season and at our annual meeting. She also gives our BOD advice and helps choose vendors and all that. We pay $60 per home per year.

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Our bylaws say the board has to meet quarterly but we do it every month regardless

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Feeling bad is normal, but I think you should separate personal feelings from professional work. Homeowners associations only function when everyone pays their dues. Allowing a few homeowners to go on default isn’t fair for others who keep up-to-date with their dues. Members agree to pay dues when they buy into the community. It’s not your fault they can’t pay. They either settle their unpaid dues or face the music.

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Where do you live? In New Jersey, where I live, there’s a law covering EV charging stations and HOAs. The law states that unit owners have a responsibility to obtain, maintain, and provide evidence of insurance protecting the association and the other unit owners from damage as a result of the EV charging station.

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Good questions here, hoa_newbie. I think a lot of people want to gate their community because of the ‘exclusivity’ aspect of it, but only a few really stop to think about the implications.

Obviously, there are some benefits. But there are also some disadvantages. When you decide to install gates, you are cutting off a lot of the public (free) services that you would normally have access to such as road maintenance and paving. Homeowners would need to pay for these as well as fixtures such as street lights, signs, etc. This will cause assessments to increase. In addition, the HOA will become liable for any damages or injury caused or that happens in private roads.

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