What's the Price of Silence?

 



Remember this great song?

There is a new tune at The Summit HOA. It's called "The Price of Silence". 

How much will the HOA spend of your money trying to silence me through legal action in a Richland County court? $1,000? $5,000? $10,000? $25,000? $50,000?

When will I be silent? When the Board starts complying with the By-Laws!

What is it that the HOA (the board of directors) does not want you to know? (Read this blog.)

Everything I have said and written about the HOA for 4½ years has, to be best of my knowledge, been true. Nothing has been false. Sending business-oriented, politely-worded emails to board members, office staff, and an attorney is not harassment. It is communication.

Does the Board not want you to know that it has allowed the election of Directors by people who are not entitled to vote?

If people who are not entitled to vote, do vote, then those who win the election are not "duly-elected". They do not become Directors of the HOA. And when those "directors" vote for officers, their votes don't count, and the people voted for do not become "duly-elected" officers.

There are NO duly-elected Voting Members (except one), Directors, or Officers. There is no duly-elected Board of Directors. South Carolina requires every non-profit corporation to have a [legitimate] board of directors. This HOA does not.

Does that matter to you? It should. The Voting Members are supposed to represent you, not represent the board of directors. The Voting Members are supposed to be your voice.

They are supposed to stand up and speak out on your behalf. Why aren't they? All they do is show up once a year and vote. BUT the non-elected "Voting Members" aren't even entitled to attend the Annual Meeting of Voting Members, because you did not "elect" them. Except for one - the Voting Member for Barony Place.

Nobody seems to know when or how the scheme of "getting signatures" came about. "Getting signatures" to become a Voting Member is NOT election by the homeowners in a Neighborhood.

Voting Members can obligate you, the homeowner. This is why it is so important that they be elected by you, in compliance with the By-Laws.

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