And I also agree, that if you can't wait for these services to reach you, you should pay for your own debris removal, but it should not be a HOA cost. So we're in agreement.
I just wanted to get a survey from people in Florida to see how other private HOAs handle these situations. I live in a very shady community and keeping track of the backwater rebates is time consuming. Don't know if the same thing that happened with Charlie in 2004, will happen again. Back when Charlie hit us we had two of the cabal members in our Association that had forty foot plus trees that came down, probably by a tornado touchdown. I don't think there was any lot that wasn't covered by tree debris, because nothing like that had cleaned the trees out before.
We kept bagging debris and piled them on the edge of the vacant lot next to mine. Two other homes did the same thing, so it looked pretty massive. The city called for three pick up days, so I figured it would be taken care of, but my HOA said they were going to hire out for debris pickup. I always thought this was suspicious. One of the members on that board had one of the massive trees that had come down. She directly benefited from this decision. To justify the debris pickup she said it was to pick up yard trash like the one on MY property. She mentioned us by name even though she fully knew we were using the undeeded portion of a vacant lot, along the edge of the street.
It was two for one chicanery, not just because she was covering her own costs to the damage of her own property, but she was also seeking an adverse possession of HOA property. Claiming that the vacant lot was mine was just a lame attempt at projection.
Bottomline, I was wondering what fell under the category of fiduciary responsibility when it came down to HOA responsibility.
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