2014 March 13 CLOSED BOD Meeting with Attorney

The Owners are also PRIVILEGED to organize a RECALL of Directors who habitually call on expensive attorney advice and spend Association money on problems which it creates by its inaction and action.

It seems to me that the neglect of the past is now evident in the ignorance and arrogance demonstrated in the present and will require a painful and expensive transition to set this dysfunctional HOA back on a lawful operating basis. Owners might be comforted by the fact that practically nothing was spent in the past, so owners have had a free ride and not had to face the harsh realities along the way.  I called this the "S-bag Bubble"--that carefree place where the outside world is not allowed to intrude--a sovereign land free of outside influences.   Many realities are revealing themselves as SLR "grows up" and demands accountability and legitimate governance from its elected representatives.

SLohA's wake-up call is a slowly dawning reality that the Covenants do not serve the kind of community SLohA has become. SLR has shed its functional "recreational vehicle park" identity but retains its corporate and legal identity and is still bound by restrictions on only camping vehicles. It "morphed" by a longtime, consistent waiver of the RV park personna, but does not have the governance structure to support a manufactured home community (not to mention the infrastructure).

My Top 5 Realities in the Future:

#1 No 55+ restrictions in the Covenants and NO rental restrictions (of course not--who rents RV's?) meaning that as attrition occurs, more vacant homes will be rented to people under 55 yrs and more elderly residents will house younger family members under 55. (HOPA permits 20% occupancy now which trumps ALL governing docs).

#2 Volunteerism will decline drastically, as the population ages and attrition occurs, placing more pressure on budget for many types of recreational costs and this may change the definition of "resort".

#3 More $ to be spent on Legal Costs to compel SLohA to conform to plan of community and FL constitution especially commercial activity/land use.

#4 Covenants expiration resolution may become a game-changer.

#5 Ongoing and costly issues with wastewater treatment plant with possible Special Assessments ahead. Rise in homes "walked away from" and vacant units. No authority in Covenants to lien and foreclose (of course, why would you lien and foreclose a pop-up trailer?)

These are the kinds of things an enlightened board should be paying attention to. Such a Board would logically set up a Long Range Planning Committee and a Cost Control Committee. SLohA has demonstrated a willingness and ability in the past to control costs and recover from near-disastrous financial conditions, but it cannot do this with a Board that is self-centered, secretive, dismissive and short-sighted--controlled by a Management Company that is self-serving, inept and disrespectful of Board and Owners.

BOD's take notice to the above future realities--realities that only YOU yourselves created; only answer is if you BOD's don't change your self-centered, secretive, dismissive and short-sighted ways along with the Management company's ineptitude, self-centered/serving and disrespect of owners, these things will become realized, and the blame of that will all fall on your shoulders. 

Does this mean that I can sell my place to someone under 55 with kids and no one can stop it legally?? If there is no covenants, is that what it means..

I guess she's trying to say that the balls of the male board members are in the manager's purse; this is something some of us have already known.