Letter to Senator Linda Newell about Highline Meadows &TMMC
- OWNER JOE
- Respected Neighbor
- USA
- 3 Posts
- highlinemeadows
- Respected Neighbor
- Centennial, CO
- 37 Posts
“One Day HOA's and Property Management companies will start to respect the rights of the common man instead of squashing him to make monetary gain and power to control others in Associations in America”
This is exactly what is happening at our complex. We can’t get enough votes to reach quorum and the Management Company has been taking us to the cleaners for 12 years.
Our Roofs needed replacing 15 years ago; we have had 3 special assessments and at least 10 increases which have doubled our dues in Ten Years. Our paint is gone now and only the wood which is decaying is showing as the Mansards and Roofs are all leaking.
We have started a website here http://www.highlinemeadows.org/
but, we cannot get any support from the association members as 60 % are renters and don’t care what happens. we are truly at the mercy of the Board and the management company as our property values have plummeted 40 to 60 percent and now we could go into condemnation as the porches are failing, roofs,mansurds, roads, paint, garages, landscape, fences, aluminum wiring, fire control all need attention. We have another special assessment coming up soon.
We have no choice but to have a class action lawsuit (D& O Insurance) against the Board of Directors for severe violations of the Declaration. Our proof is the Reserves at Zero dollars and the Condition of the complex as this place is falling apart each year with no capitol improvement and all the money is being used in a big money sucking business leaving us with nothing.
You think you’re being held hostage you should see this place....
I wonder with so much evidence of financial corruption and fraud how these people have not been caught in over 12 years.
- OWNER JOE
- Respected Neighbor
- USA
- 3 Posts
OK I hear you..I agree that it should be a majority of people who have caused this place to get to this point because they majority of people have never come together to have a say in the matter.
I understand that bad MC's and Bad Boards are fired all the time, but I and the Majority of the people in this complex did not vote for them or the MC or put them in there position.
We know we have a serious problem, but it's business as usual, as the position of the Board and MC is to keep increasing dues and assessing the members. At some point they should look within themselves as to what is needed to really save our complex and make so much needed changes to the budget and CUT SPENDING.
We are really just running a huge business that is not really benefiting the homeowners property values or fixing the major issues such as Roofs, Paint, Porches etc.
The budget reads like a out of control money sucking machine that has never tried to cuts cost, go green, or save money. Each year we keep spending more and more while the property values slip into the dirt. Yes, this place needs help! I'm not looking for a hand out just some reasonable common sense approach to running this place correctly.
Like I said it's just a matter of time before we could have a major accident. We already know everything is broke and needs fixing but somewhere in this equation the decisions of the Board to consider cutting spending and going into emergency mode has been lost and not even considered.
So lets say that we have a bad MC and Board and want to stay on the same course? It would take 51% of the people in this complex to make us change course at 151 members. We have great ideas of how to obtain the monies needed to save the complex but the board wont even answer our questions or see the alternative solutions to our plight.
We just need change. As usual, the current board, who's president have been in every position since 2005, will select who they want and not who the majority of people want. This has been the way it has always been the last President was in power for TEN years. It will that Board and not the majority of the people in this complex who will have TO ABIDE BY THERE DECISIONS WITH NO say in the matter.
You must believe me that we have tried so hard to get the owners to sign petitions, attend meetings, come together that it just has not happened ever since the place became a condo in 1978.
Like I said we are screwed as a majority as the Board and MC control us and we are nothing more than "Sheep in a Field.(wool is covering our eyes as we are being taken to the cleaners) Thats Our fault!
Youre Right!
Joe
- tsanfilippo
- Active Neighbor
- USA
- 1 Post
guys can we get an update on Highline Meadows, I know a new HOA was put in place Jan 1st 2019. Are there plans for changes?
Did the old HOA fix any of the above issues?
Please let us know what you know.
thanks,