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.
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