Board Fails to Acknowledge or Respond

At the May 7th monthly board meeting a report was distributed about Violation Letters send to HOA homeowners.

On May 11th I emailed all members of the board. Not one board member replied or even acknowledged my message. Are all residents and homeowners being treated this way?


A reply from a board member is requested. Please reply within seven days.

Did you look carefully at the Violation Report for 4/1-30/2024 that was distributed at the May 7, 2024 board meeting? 

Was that activity an income-generator for CAMS? How much did it cost the HOA for Teresa to handle 395 complaints (including 73 parking violations), take pictures, send letters, record responses? How many hours were spent on complaints? Does the HOA pay a per-letter cost for CAMS to mail out Violation Letters? A while back I was told the per-letter cost was $15.00.

At the April board meeting Teresa acknowledged that she sends parking violation letters to homeowners, in front of whose houses a vehicle is parked.

Here are the problems:

Streets in The Summit are not, and probably never were, Common Property of the HOA.
The Governing Documents do not apply to non-HOA property.
When she sees a car parked on a street, she doesn't know whose car it is or how long it has been parked. 
If a vehicle is legally parked on a county street, the HOA has no authority whatsoever over that vehicle or the homeowner in front of whose house it is parked.

Parking violations on County streets are enforced by RCSD and the S.C. State Patrol.

Will you please direct her to cease sending Parking Violation Notices to cars legally parked on County streets?

This became personal for me about five years ago when the property owner where I live received such a parking violation notice. Her daughter's car was legally parked on the street for three hours one afternoon. Justin told me the HOA had authority over the streets and that he didn't have to prove it. It took two years for me to get a copy of the Deed transferring the street from the Developer to the HOA. It contained no restrictive language that might have allowed the HOA to enforce any parking on the County street. The HOA stopped sending violation notices to Barony Place II homeowners and residents.

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