Should office and HOA President ignore requests?

Should the HOA office (on-site property manager) and the HOA President ignore written requests for information from a Member of the Association (or that Member's representative)?

If you wrote to the office and then to the HOA President, would you expect a reply?

Would you expect that reply to be correct? True?

For example, if you asked how many homes were in each of the 28 Neighborhoods, wouldn't you expect the office to know that answer?

On behalf of a Member, I asked that question on June 3. The first answer was 2,526, excluding Chapelwood. I asked how many home were in Chapelwood and was told "69", making the total number of homes in the HOA 2,595. The problem? There are 2,480 homes in the HOA. The office has not replied further since June 5.

On behalf of a Member, I asked the office for a copy of the 2023 Annual Audit. The By-Laws state it is to be distributed to all Members by May 1st (120 days after the end of the Association's Fiscal Year (December 31)). There was no reply at all.

When I asked the Barony Place Voting Member to find out how the No-Guns sign at Myrtle Pool came about, the office told her "proper channels" were followed. When I asked the office what those "proper channels" were, there was no reply.

Then I asked HOA President Danny Trapp for answers. In a week he did not reply. He could have handled my request very easily and simply by directing the on-site property manager to give me the answers/information. It's called "delegation". There was no reply!

Now I have written to the other five board members. Will they (or at least one of them) reply?

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