Here is a question that I hope someone can explain to me. First of all the developer just turned over our HOA to the 32 unit condo complex. The complex has 4 buildings with 8 units in each building, 4 upper and 4 lower. The first owners meeting with less than half of the owners attending selected a six member board including the president. I don't know how we decided on 6 when it should have an uneven number. Actually we had no idea what was needed to form a HOA so we selected the first 6 members who volunteered, I think we rushed into this important selection. The new board did nothing to update the covenants and bylaws. The board decided to be governed by the contractors set of rules and didn't even provide copies of them to each board member. Please let me explain, the bylaws were written as a construction plan and included samples of the construction materials. the single head of the HOA was the contractor giving him absolute control of the association. The covenants were confusing with little information on how the rules applied to each situation, the rules would say one thing and contradict itself in another chapter. No effort was given to explain how to set up a new HOA, it was a case of the blind leading the blind. The president we selected decided he would rule by his interpretation of what the contractors had recorded in the county records office.
We asked the president to rewrite or have someone rewrite the bylaws covenants as a non profit. However he prefers to make up his own laws and control the association as a dictator. Like the old saying, power corrupts. Now what should we do.
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