This Sign Is Not Enforceable



On July 16, 2024 a complaint that I filed against the HOA with the S.C. Department of Consumer Affairs (SC DCA) was accepted for investigation. The HOA had 20 days to respond, and CAMS responded for the HOA on the last day, August 5.

CAMS informed the SC DCA that the board had approved the No Guns rule at a pre-board meeting on May 28.

The Board of Directors did not follow proper channels for approving this sign before installing it. The office withheld complete information from the Barony Place Neighborhood Representative about the approval process. The sign may not even be a legitimate sign approved by the State of South Carolina.

Because the on-site property manager had failed to disclose how the decision about the "No Guns" sign at the pool/office was approved, telling the Barony Place Neighborhood Representative only the "proper channels" were followed, this issue was part of my complaint to the SC DCA.

How was the decision made by the BOD? They made it in private at their secret pre-board meeting on May 28, 2024. I have requested the Minutes of that meeting and have been told that the office doesn't have them. The board keeps them.

I filed a Five-Day Demand for those Minutes, and I'll be back at the office on Friday, August 16th, to inspect them. 

Earlier this year I was told that the BOD no longer made decisions in pre-board meetings. All decisions (votes) would be in public at the open monthly board meetings.

Now that appears to no longer be the case.

Please attend BOD meetings and demand transparency and accountability. 

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