--- title: This condo association wants me off the board description: I was nominated and elected to the 5-member condo board soon after I bought my unit. I was a member of the board for five years. image: https://www.condoassociation.com/hubfs/angry-board-member.jpeg --- [Skip to content](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/this-condo-association-wants-me-off-the-board#main-content) # This condo association wants me off the board | [Board of Directors](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/topic/board-of-directors) |   ## What do you think? Question: I was nominated and elected to the 5-member condo board soon after I bought my unit. I was a member of the board for five years. We have a small complex so there aren’t many people willing or able to serve. The condo is in California. The president is very much in charge and I realized soon after I joined that what she wanted was four rubber stamps for everything she wanted to do. I am not a rubber stamp kind of person and I disagreed on several occasions with her suggestions. I was never aggressive and just explained my position. Occasionally I voted against her suggestions though my opposing vote never made any difference because she had three other board members who always voted with her. At one point I spoke up about her plans to have the exteriors of all the buildings painted. I worried that it was costing too much and left almost nothing for emergencies. I was outvoted and the painting proceeded. There was an emergency repair and it left our reserves depleted so it was decided to impose a special assessment. I voted against this, too, but to no avail. It passed. Meanwhile a new owner arrived who wanted to be on the board. When the nomination forms went out, I never received one and I had no contact from the president or management. Finally the manager contacted me and said they had not received my nomination and asked if I still wanted to run for a place on the board. I said I did but that I had never received a nomination form and did not know they had been mailed out. Then she called back within hours and said the deadline had passed and I couldn’t run and that there were five nominations already. So I was off the board with no recourse. I know the president wanted me off the board because she didn’t like any opposition and she finally had an opportunity for someone else to fill the slot. I doubt that any nomination form was ever mailed to me and it was deliberate. What can an owner do who is manipulated like this? Not that I want to sit on a board that is run so badly where everyone is expected to vote the way the president wants. It looks to me like bad business. For the first time I want to sell my unit and move on, preferably not to another condo. ## What do you think? Answers (11) #### What are your thoughts on this topic? ***Comments and postings are not legal advice**, but are the opinions of our readers. This forum and its contents are being monitored. Please be respectful of each other. *   ## Related Posts ### [Is assessment illegal because due to lack of board members?](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/is-assessment-illegal-because-due-to-lack-of-board-members) ### [Board behaving badly in Illinois](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/board-behaving-badly-in-illinois) ### [Bully destroys attempts to improve the condo's exterior](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/bully-destroys-attempts-to-improve-the-condos-exterior) ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "dateModified" : "2024-10-01", "datePublished" : "2024-10-01", "headline" : "This condo association wants me off the board", "image" : [ "https://www.condoassociation.com/hubfs/angry-board-member.jpeg" ], "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/this-condo-association-wants-me-off-the-board", "@type" : "WebPage" } } ```