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I own a condo in Tampa Florida, I have been here for 7 years and have seen one property management company come and go, this last one has gotten very strict with rules and posts them by mailboxes and such frequently, it makes me feel like a child.
My question though is considering towing and private property. I own two covered carport spots, I had to purchase them with the condo, so they are my private spots, and the board has issued a towing company to actively tow cars who have not parked in visitors spots if they do not have a decal. There are less than 2 visitor spots per building and each building has 7 units.
Now the HOA board is allowing the tow company to tow cars without decals from under the carports, so if I have a guest over they cannot park in my private car port spot, is it illegal for them to tow from my carport spot if I own it? I was under the impression that is my private property. I want to properly bring up this issue at the next board meeting how should I do that? I also wonder if the condo association is responsible for paying to have them in our complex every night of the week? If I wanted to put a stop to this active towing every night and keep it to where the residents have to call to get an illegal car towed how do I do that? I don’t know if I need to start a petition or talk to other owners first. I appreciate any help as I do not want to stir up a problem at the meeting without some sort of knowledge!
I serve on the Board of my Condo Association which is comprised of 12 townhouse style units. It is a new development run very poorly by the builder from the inception of the development in Jan 08 (when I moved in) until May 09.
In March 09 when 100% of the units were occupied I headed a successful effort to get control of the Condo Association from the builder to the unit owners. With the help of an attorney and a property management company we held a successful election for the Board of Directors. Since May 09 the Condo Association Board has hired the property management company who helped with acquisition for landscaping, snow plowing and trash services.
I want to do the best job that I can as a Board member. The Board tries to try to keep communication open and educate everyone about what is going on. I figure I would rather hear complaints about too much communication than not enough. We have a big problem with parking. The builder cheaped out at the end of the development phase. Visitor parking spaces were cut from 12 to 4. We only just recently (Oct 09) got the road paved. The lines for parking were never done. "No parking" signs were never put up on the roadway as it is too narrow for on street parking. The property management company is useless with helping us with the builder (we will be changing them as soon as our contract is up in May 10) and the builder left us with no reserve money even though he collected $308 from each unit for that purpose. We are dealing with the condo association budget issues and other issues as there are a few! But the parking is where the most complaints come in as there are condo units abusing the use of the visitor parking spaces. They leave their garage empty, their driveway empty and put their two cars in the visitor parking.
Any suggestions on how to deal with this would be greatly appreciated.
Letters have been sent. Discussions have been held at meetings. Next step is instituting fines??? Maybe written notice first, fine next? Residents each have 2 parking spaces. Units with a garage have the garage space counted as one w/the driveway space as the #2 parking space.