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Condo association has parking space shortage


Question:

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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