Should State Take Control of HOA?

Should the State of South Carolina take control of The Summit Community Association, Inc. (SCA)? This is The Summit's HOA.

Why should the State (the South Carolina Attorney General or the South Carolina Secretary of State) take control?

The SCA does not have a legitimate Board of Directors, as required of all non-profit corporations in South Carolina.

The Board of Directors does not have any legitimate Directors. 

Two Directors resigned in May. A third Director, appointed in December 2023, was not eligible to be a Director.

The actions of a fourth Director warrant immediate removal, for cause.

The last three directors were not duly-elected. The people who voted for them were not eligible to vote. There has been clear Voter Fraud at the Annual Meetings of Voting Members for years.

The State's action is necessary to protect 2,480 Members (homeowners). The Members have not been properly represented before the Board,  because their neighborhoods did not hold Annual Meetings to elect Neighborhood Committees and Voting Members. (Barony Place held Neighborhood Meetings in 2024 and 2025 and elected a Voting Member.)

While the Management Company and Treasurers told the Board and Members that everything was in good shape, they failed to inform Members of growing bad and uncollectible debts (unpaid dues).

They also failed to report to Members the use of budgeted Reserves for operations. That covered increasing expenses without raising dues in  2021, 2022, and 2023. 

No money ($0.00) was budgeted for Reserves in 2024 (required by the CC&Rs), and only $3,000 is budgeted for 2025 (versus $163,965 in 2020).