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title: Can contractor use HOA board seat to get home improvement business?
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# Can contractor use HOA board seat to get home improvement business?

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## What do you think? Question:

Can a HOA Board member who is a contractor use his position to force owners to use his company for property improvements? He is also the head of the Architectural Review Committee. We submitted an application to build a fence. We never received any response from the ARC at all, just a very high price quote from the BOD contractor guy. The implication was clearly 'pay to play'- we write him a check and we get our fence. Is this legal?  Hawaii 

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