What if the Inept Property Manager Arranged for Repairs...and DIDN'T Tell Anyone?

To show you how incompetent our Property Manager is...
This past Monday (August 26th), without warning, workmen showed up and started moving peoples' property off the back porches.
When asked, they told us they were there to "power-blast" the porches clean.
A little odd, but, considering the Manager and Board's propensity for non-communication (we haven't had Minutes for the Board meetings for over a year), not suprising.
The workmen did their job, then left.
People started putting their stuff back on the porches.
Yesterday (August 28th) morning, the workmen returned (again, without warning) and started applying protective varnisn/stain to the wood porches.
Around noon, signs finally appeared in the lobbies, stating...

The Decks will be

cleaned and stained beginning on

Monday, August 26, 2013

Weather permitting the project

should take 4 days to complete

Please remove all personal belongings

prior to Monday

The decks cannot be used until

Friday, August 30, 2013

Thank you in advance for your cooperation

It's hard to "cooperate" on Sunday/Monday when you don't receive notice until Wednesday, but logic has never been our property manager's strong suit...

What the Board Won't Tell You...

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Board Violates the Law...AGAIN!

Sometime between 7pm last night and 7am this morning, a notice was finally posted in the lobbies of the buildings about tonight's 7pm Board meeting...though the law requires it be posted at least 48 hours before!
Another example of the Twit and the Twat failing in their responsibilities.
Watch for our summary of the meeting on Thursday.
The preparations made back in March are still in place, so it'll be interesting to see how the Board's minutes (If any. We haven't had minutes mailed to unit owners in over a year) will compare with "real life"...

Board Meeting Scheduled for Tomorrow...or IS IT?

With the last (late as usual) assessment bill, there was a flyer for a Board Meeting on August 14th at the usual distant-from-the-condo location.
However, as of 7am this morning, only 36 hours before the scheduled meeting, there are no flyers in either building lobby...as required by law!
(Notice is supposed to be posted in a "public place" no less than 48 hours before a meeting.)
Has the meeting been cancelled?
Is the Board planning to have it in secret?
What machinations are the Board and their servant planning?
(Note: There have been no Board Meeting minutes issued in over a year, not since the "Security Camera Debacle" detailed HERE.)
We'll be there, one way or another, so be here on Thursday for a follow-up.

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The Meeting (featuring a surprise guest appearance)

The meeting on the 26th was held at the usual location, in the open area of the public library as it was once before, which, as you will see, will lead into an embarassment for the Board, as I'll show shortly.

As the meeting began, the Board's servant introduced someone she claimed was their lawyer.

Though his general description matched the listing on the firm's site, his demeanour and attire didn't quite sync in my mind with a high-powered attorney.

He was then fed a series of prepared questions, most of which he answered correctly, though with a heavy emphasis on levying fines ranging in the thousands of dollars, instead of points of law.

(Though he did mention if the person they fined took the Board to court over the fines, unless they could prove reasonableness [an unlikely event when dealing with this group], they would lose.)

He also claimed that no one but unit owners could attend Board meetings, despite the fact that the Property Manager had actually provided a form letter to M allowing other representatives (such as myself) to attend, meaning either the Property Manager mis-read the law (which would not be a surprise) or the presumed "lawyer" was wrong.

After this 15-minute bit of theatre (which he mentioned was free of charge as a "meet-and-greet", though little meeting or greeting occured), he beat a hasty retreat instead of sitting in on the rest of the meeting, which any intelligent lawyer would've done, in order to see if what his clients claimed was true.

Once the "lawyer" departed, yours truly was ordered out of the meeting.

The problem was that the meeting was in an open part of a public library, which they had no authority to command me to leave.

After some of the usual blustering, the Board sent one of their members to see if the room they normally-used had finally become available.

It wasn't, so they were forced to continue the meeting with me well within earshot...which is not what they wanted.

They discussed a number of mundane matters, and at the end of the short attempt at face-saving, invited questions from attending unit owners.

There was only one (as usual), M, she asked about the fact that no Board meeting minutes had been distributed since last July!

The Board members and their servant all started talking at once about unrelated matters, never explaining why they had failed in their duties and responsibilities.

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Board Meeting Tomorrow...

Notice went up this morning, less than 40 hours before the meeting, a violation of the Condo Code (which requires notices to be posted more than 48 hours before the meeting.).
It's at the usual location over a mile away.
The Board and Property Manager are aware that, due to mass-transit budget cuts, the bus M and I use to get to the over-a-mile distant location (we don't have a car) no longer runs after the start time of the meeting, forcing us to pay for a cab to get home.
An obviously-deliberate ploy to keep us from attending, due to M's bad knees.
Despite the unwarranted additional expense and inconvenience, we'll be there to face them down.

Previously-Unannounced Meeting!

A notice posted in the lobby listed a Board meeting on May 15th.
This is curious for several reasons...

• 1) It's only two months since the last meeting. Usually they're three months apart.
• 2) It's at the usual location over a mile away. The Board and Property Manager are aware that, due to mass-transit budget cuts, the bus M and I use to get to the over-a-mile distant location (we don't have a car) no longer runs after the start time of the meeting, forcing us to pay for a cab to get home. An obviously-deliberate ploy to keep us from attending, due to M's bad knees. Despite the unwarranted additional expense and inconvenience, we'll be there to face them down.
• 3) The year-end report contained a number of inaccuracies or (ahem) fallacies. We reported a couple of these in our previous post. Combine that with the failure of the Property Manager and Board to provide minutes for the three meetings since September 2012, and it looks like somebody's trying to cover their collective asses.

We have suspicions as to what, exactly, is going on.
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