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What Did Danny Trapp Stir Up?

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On September 19, 2025 Brookland Baptist Church Northeast sent a letter to Danny Trapp and the Richland County Sheriff's Department. The letter was sent in response to a letter that the Church received from Danny Trapp on September 15, 2025. The letter from the Church is addressed to Danny as the President of the Summit Homeowners Association. What in the world did Danny write in his letter to the Church that resulted in the Church's response? I immediately wrote to the Church and requested a copy of Danny's letter and the Church's appeal process. So far the Church has not provided either. What's interesting about the four men banned from church property is that they all have been critical of many of Danny's actions as Board President. Three are homeowners, and two of them are Voting Members. A third is almost a Voting Member; he is collecting the final signatures to meet the HOA's requirement to become recognized as a Voting Member. The fourth is, in the wor...
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Court Case, Nov. 3, 2025

The moost-recent step in the HOA's court case against Gus Philpott happened yesterday afternoon, November 3rd. Two Motions were heard by Court of Common Pleas Judge Milton Kimpson. The HOA's Motion to Compel me to produce responses to their lengthy demands was met with the judge's response that the HOA must limit some of their requests. The second was my Motion to remove the Association as the named Plaintiff, because the case was illegally filed by Board President Danny Trapp in the name of the Association , but without the approval of the Board of Directors.  I also complained about the false statement by Danny Trapp, in which he said that he was authorized to execute the "Verified Complaint". The Board never authorized him to do so. Judge Kimpson asked me a good question - If he removed the Association as Plaintiff, who would be the Plaintiff? There is no answer for that question. In court I said that the Association can't be the Plaintiff, because of the p...
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Street Parking in The Summit

 In the last two Summit Scoops (September 2025 and October 2025), Board President Danny Trapp has written about street parking in The Summit.  While he didn't mention me by name, he took a swipe at me with " Please don't allow someone to convince you differently. When the streets were deeded over to Richland County, our standing covenants were also inclusive and enforceable. " I proved to the past-President of the Board that the HOA had no control over Barony Place Circle (in Barony Place II). When the developer deeded Barony Place Circle over to Richland County, the CC&Rs and By-Laws were NOT attached.  Homeowners and residents in Barony Place II stopped receiving parking violation notices. This was also the case, when the last streets in The Summit (lower Barony Place Drive, Lakemont Drive, and Rainey Court (in Lakes at Barony Place)) were deeded to Richland County. The HOA had a golden opportunity to try to attach the CC&Rs and/or By-Laws when the Deed was ...
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HOA's Lawyer Raises Counterclaim Questiion

In a last-minute filing before tomorrow's court date in the HOA's lawsuit against resident Gus Philpott, the HOA's lawyer filed (in documents recorded on October 30, 2025 5:02PM) that "Defendant has asserted no counterclaim..." That is true. No counterclaim has been filed - YET . A counterclaim may cost me $150.00 to file. It will cost the HOA thousands of dollars. The HOA will have to defend against it. Otherwise, I'll win by default. So far, I've held off on filing a counterclaim, because of the cost to you . You, the Members (the homeowners), pay for the actions (errors) of the Board of Directors. If the directors had to pay personally and not use the HOA's piggybank, I would have filed a counterclaim months ago. Just as the HOA has tried to bury me in Motions, I'll return the favor. For the HOA, it wouldn't be a matter of a person spending his week-end typing and formatting his responses and arguments for submission to the Court. For the H...
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Brilliant Idea? Should HOA Sue Danny Trapp?

The Summit's HOA consists of 2,480 properties. The responsibility of the Board of Directors is to manage the HOA in the best interests of those property owners. If an action is taken that is not in the best interests of the Association (the Members), what should happen? Danny Trapp caused a lawsuit to be filed against resident Gus Philpott in the name of the Association , but it was never approved by the Board of Directors. The HOA is spending a lot of money on legal fees to prosecute that lawsuit. If it wasn't approved by the Board of Directors, then it wasn't really filed on behalf of the Association. This issue will be addressed in court on Monday, November 3, 2025, at 2:00PM. What's the brilliant idea? How about a lawsuit in the name of the Association against Danny Trapp? Since he was able to file it without the approval of the Board of Directors, could anyone file a lawsuit in the name of the Association against Danny Trapp? The approval of the Board of Directors...
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Board Meeting - Why Not November 5?

When the Board of Directors finally woke up and realized that November 11th was Veterans Day and that November 4th was a municipal election day, why didn't it schedule the two most-important HOA meetings of the year for Wednesday, November 5? What is the fixation on Tuesday? The November 18th date is only two weeks before the December 2 Board Meeting. As of October 17th, the November 11th Board Meeting was not on the reservation calendar of Brookland Baptist Church Northeast. Was it ever on that calendar? Who failed? The CAMS property manager? The Town & Country property manager? The Secretary of the Board? The President of the Board? The entire Board of Directors? November 18th is too late in the month for the Annual Meeting of Voting Members and the annual meeting of the Board, including the Organizational Meeting. The 2026 Annual Budget needs to be discussed and considered. After thorough discussion, it needs to be approved. The discussion should be in November. Consideratio...
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HOA Announces November Date-Change

This afternoon the HOA announced a date-change for the very important meetings of the year. Dear Homeowners, We are writing to inform you of an important update regarding the 2025 Annual Election Board Meeting. Due to the coinciding national elections and the observance of Veterans Day, it has become necessary to reschedule both the date and venue of our meeting. New Date: November 18th, 2025 New Venue: North Springs Park, 1320 Clemson Rd. Columbia SC 29229 Meeting Start Time: 6:30 PM Who do you suppose worded that message? What is " the 2025 Annual Election Board Meeting"? There isn't any such meeting! And the "national elections" and Veterans Day certainly don't coincide! What "national elections" are there in Richland County? This year there are local, municipal elections. Are any on a local ballot? The annual election (of directors) happens at t he Annual Meeting of Voting Members (AMVM), which precedes the 6:30PM Board Meeting. That AMVM is no...
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