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Anyone ever had a problem with an HOA board member?
I have some how gotten myself involved in a war with the VP of our HOA. I can't believe she got elected in the first place, but now that she has, I'm part of a movement to have her recalled.
You should see the emails being sent back and forth! Mostly they are on the two homeowner yahoo groups that my neighborhood has set up. She set up her own yahoo group a year ago to talk about safety issues and also her own personal crazy agenda, but never made the messages private. I've been reading them for a year without belonging to the group. When someone pointed it out to her, and I confirmed, she started accusing me of all sorts of weird things. These posts she made included every e-mail she has sent, with responses, to the mayor, the water district, the chief of police, the school superintendent, etc, etc, but they also include privileged attorney-client emails between our HOA board and our HOA attorney - basically exposing all of our association's business to the public.
I am so proud of myself for standing up for myself, getting the truth out, and allowing herself to expose herself for the crazy person she is. This woman has been a bully from the very beginning of me living here (see this post from a year ago: http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/32794872.aspx
and I've now joined forces with many others who are tired of being attacked when she needs to deflect attention away from her shortcomings.
In all honesty, I'm a tad afraid... so today I'm going to go out and make sure my patio is perfectly swept, and I don't have any type of violations of any sort that she can call me on.
So - anyone been in a similar situation???
Re: Anyone ever had a problem with an HOA board member?
Lighthouse State Beach, Santa Cruz.
When I lived in a condo we had a crazy lunatic, conspiracy theorist, pretty violent guy in the group. He was on the board before I lived there, and then managed to get himself back on while I lived there. He had this total oppositional personality, anything the management company did, he sent them a zillion emails questioning it, eventally costing us thousands of dollars because they charged us every time they had to respond to him, He quotes all these bylaws and things from the CCNR's all the time, and the condo laws, then he has tantrums at meetings won't let anyone else speak. He got kicked off, due to all of this, although he has his cronies so it was not the easiest thing. There are a lot of people that go along with his lunacy since he waylays people in the garage and goes on and on about how evil this board member is or that Management person. Scary ***.
I took his place because they begged me to run so the crazies would not get on the board. Then everyone in the meetings went on and on about how we spent so much money ousting him from the board when in reality that cost nothing compared to what he cost us. they just didn't understand that he was FOS.
Then he got violent. He had a tantrum at a meeting that almost resulted in a call to the police but one of the board members was like "no, that will make it worse" but I wasn't there I would have disagreed.
Then he actually hit someone, former board member, in passing, she is the type of person taht probably "took his bait" if you know what I mean, and I believe the management company (different one at this point), sent him a warning letter or something. I kind of dropped out at this point and he had stopped coming to meetings.
But they did have a vote to get him ousted, they wrote a letter detailing all the things he was doing, which of course he had his own rebuttal to. He was even bringing his own propaganda to board meetings and distributing on the DL. I showed it to the Management co and they said he was causing major liability problems for us representing misinformation as facts, etc. We got really scared about that and that's why we got him off the board. He is also unemployed and was banned from ever working for the city again, so clearly serious mental health issues to start with.
Oh wow, Amy! There are a lot of similarities with ours. It hasn't gotten violent, but the lady sent out an email to some "trusted" neighbors that said if something happened to her, to give the police a list of the people on the Social Committee. She also won't let her children attend any neighborhood parties because she thinks they will be poisoned.