Barony Place I/Barony Place II

The Board of Directors sent out Annual Meeting Instructions. They are for conducting Neighborhood Meetings that, hopefully, will comply with the By-Laws. The Instructions were faulty right from the top, where they led off with, "Requirements for electing Neighborhood Committees to appoint Voting Members and Alternates..." Neighborhood Committees do not "appoint" Voting Members and Alternates." They elect a chairman, who becomes the Voting Member. The other two members of the Neighborhood Committee are Alternates. For the first time in many years, the Board of Directors is using the word "must", as in "There must be an annual meeting..." Imagine that. Where did they get that idea? That's exactly what I have been harping on for years! The Board errs in a grievous manner by ordering, "notices must include names of homeowners interested in serving on the Neighborhood Committee..." This is an intrusion into the Neighborhood's au...

Today I made a decision to throw out a Banker's Box full of legal papers. These were the papers connected to Danny Trapp's illegal lawsuit against me. I decided not to sue Danny, who had caused a lawsuit to be filed against me in December 2024 in the name of the HOA , even though it was prohibited by the CC&Rs and was filed without the approval of the Board of Directors. That's what made it "illegal". I also decided not to sue the HOA. I could have. The grounds were strong.    No one on the Board stood tall and told Danny, "You can't do that." CAMS didn't. The lawyers didn't. The other six board members didn't. I had been thinking about writing a book about my experience. I represented myself in court, going pro se after getting a quote of a legal fee of $30,-$50,000. I believe the HOA wasted $25,-$30,000 of your money. The Board has never said how much Danny's lawsuit cost the Association. They even stopped publishing monthly Fi...

In the May 27, 2026 office email to the HOA community, the first error occurred in the second paragraph, where it read, " The Neighborhood Representative will be following the attached annual meeting instructions. If you are interested in serving as a volunteer, please contact management or submit your name directly to your Neighborhood Representative." A "Neighborhood Representative" is a person who was elected by his/her neighborhood. At this time there is only one legitimate, duly-elected Voting Member (or Neighborhood Representative), and that's in Barony Place. Other Neighborhoods are starting to organize Neighborhood Meetings, but there have been no reports so far of Meetings or neighborhood elections. The other "Voting Members" listed by the HOA are "recognized" by the Board, but they are not legitimate Voting Members or Neighborhood Representatives. It is the Neighborhood that will be following the suggested instructions from the Bo...

When Summit HOA resident Michele Rattray filed her legal action in Pontiac Court against Brenda Bryant, Jeff Lummel, Linda Potter, and Angelo Turley-Moore (which mirrored Vernell Butler's legal action against the same four), why didn't she file against the people who actually set up and ran the 2025 election of directors of the HOA? Those people were Danny Trapp and the Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee was composed of then-Board Vice-President Tanisha Holmes (Rattray's neighbor in Whitney Falls), Carmen Cloud (Danny Trapp's neighbor), Maribeth Edwards, and Stan Haines). The Nominating Committee had shortly before the November 2025 election been purged of long-time members (Michael Bryant, Jeff Lummel, James Glenn, and Kristie O'Brian). I don't recall that the formation of the new Nominating Committee was voted on at a public Board Meeting, but it might have been. When the Nominating Committee reviewed applications for Board positions, it did not ap...

The litigation filed by Vernell Butler and Michele Rattray (separate actions) did have some merit. Had it been properly filed, it might have been successful, rather than being dismissed this morning in the Blythewood Magistrate Court. What was wrong with it? The Plaintiffs tried to save money by filing  pro se ; i.e., on their own without an attorney. Their claims were vague and insufficient. They filed in the wrong courts (Dentsville, Blythewood, and Pontiac Magistrate Courts), and the consolidated case was in the wrong Court. A Magistrate does not resolve the claims that were made. The case probably should have been in Richland County Fifth Judicial Circuit Court of Common Pleas. When the HOA sued me, I continually brought up at hearings that there were no legitimate, duly-elected Voting Members (except Barony Place); no legitimate Board of Directors; no legitimate officers. Two Circuit Court judges tolerated my  comments, which an attorney probably would never have gotten ...

Did you read the May 27, 2026 email from the office about Neighborhood Meetings? Did you open all three attachments? They are worth printing and reading carefully. Unfortunately, parts of that communication are wrong, starting with the first sentence in the email. " Your Neighborhood Representative will be holding an annual meeting to conduct an election for the Neighborhood Representative and Alternate. " Why is this wrong? Because 27 Neighborhoods (out of 28) do not have legitimate, duly-elected  Neighborhood Representatives! There is no one to hold that meeting! It's the Neighborhood that holds the annual (neighborhood) meeting, not the Neighborhood Representative.  And the election is not for the "Neighborhood Representative and Alternate." The election is of the (local) Neighborhood Committee, which consists of three homeowners from that neighborhood. One neighborhood has already held its Annual Neighborhood Meeting. Barony Place held its Meeting on May 2,...