Tuesday night was yet another demonstration of the futility and frustration I have with my homeowner’s association which I’ve concluded is a re-enactement of high-school government. Last year the annual meeting was in April so I have no idea why it’s in February. Supposedly, this is the only one for the year. Didn’t matter too much, I was attending because the fees were jacked again over vandalism and other things I wanted to declare BS on. I’m still dealing with the petty letters from the overpaid company this is really handled by. Speaking of which, maybe I can find a VC to back me on making up a cash cow company like Associa or Alliance or whoever it is these days. It’s terribly lucrative in my opinion. This company collects $43 a quarter from over 700 households and the lionshare is kept as “fees” for doing something I can only guess is mailing out snotty letters, having its snoops measure the grass, paying a landscaping company and not doing much else.
The meeting ended up a bust due to no quorum of 65 people and proxies. When it was declared to start at 630 PM, the quorum was short by 21. Then the annoyance began. The attempt to adjourn at 7 PM was delayed as there was armtwisting happening to get more proxies. I was one of the jerks pushing for a dismissal, requesting we’d meet again because I wanted to gauge the opinions of my neighbors. The current president made a valid point of the venue costs for the meetings. I would agree but I’m still pissed over the rate hike of five percent being shoved down my throat. Luckily, there were other people in my minority being as “uncooperative” to get the meeting canned at 730 PM as the quorum fell short by three. Then someone tried to corral us back in with talk of quorum being made after it was officially declared a bust. No dice, one lady and I said we wouldn’t surrender our proxies thus preventing the 65.
Rather a rude move on my part I will admit and I’m not thrilled about my 43 bucks being wasted. But I need more time to gauge what’s on the minds of my neighbors since the general consensus is the HOA is a nuisance and not something we really want to be a part of. I like the idea of a community, just not the one being formed wastefully around my home.