Majority of Florida condo board quit in 2019 as squabbling residents dragged out plans for repairs

[jgmiller]

14. This is common in many HOA's not just condos

I live in a small HOA (191 houses) and am on the board. Thankfully we all work very hard and get along but there are many home owners that just don't want to listen no matter how hard we try.

Our houses all go for well over $1M and we have private streets (no gates) so we have to pay for any street maintenance. Besides basic safety the overall appearance helps keep our property values high. A few years ago we discovered that after 30 years our streets needed to be completely replaced, the original builder did a very poor job and through patching they lasted this long. When we presented the plan to spend $1.2M over 5 years to do this only about 25% of the owners showed up for the meeting. Most were fine with it but a surprising number didn't want to do anything and their argument was "I'm not going to be living here in 10-15 years what do I care what the streets look like then?" Even 4 years after we started we still got confused calls from homeowners that didn't realize they were paying for the replacement with an additional monthly assessment.