The Board informed The Browning Reserve Group that they expected the association to be charged the special assessments totaling $4167.00.

This covers the major shortfall over just the next 3 years.

This would require a vote.  The Association was never informed of this.  How could you consider a vote on this issue?  How did the Board anticipate the levy of the assessments?

They never intended to address the real financial situation, and address the assessments. You were misled into believing that everything was fine. If there was any intention to discuss the assessments with the association, it was clearly dropped after Russ received my email about the recall effort on May 3, along with the subsequent activities concerning the recall within the community.

The Association must discuss this.  Someone must call some sort of special meeting.  This is also an open forum for the community to discuss these serious issues, among many others, such as the member harassment, lack of services rendered, etc.  Just look at the state of the property.  This website's main header image is a good start.

The painting and refurbishment project isn't the reason for the poor financial state of your Association.  It's the mismanagement / non-management of such a large scale project by people who clearly shouldn't be undertaking it alone.  Not when we have an entire community of members, some with real experience.  You should have formed real committees.  I'd like to see the proper project management reports on the project:  Business Case, Project Charter, Project Plan, Risk Reports, Variance Reports, Project Health and Status Reports, etc.  I'm sure they don't exist.  They absolutely should for a project of that scale.  This is what happens when projects aren't managed.

This website is entirely built to provide a conduit for communication for the members and residents within the Edgewood community.  It has taken time, money, and hundreds of hours of tedious learning and frustrating effort to build for you.  You should use it.

It has also been rewarding in many ways.

Start budgeting for your assessments.  They are coming, in a big way.  The actual majority of the Association may never vote on it.  You need >50% of >50% quorum.  I believe the Board will get it if they want it.

If you want any actual say in this, you know what you need to do.  What you don't need to do is hand these people $450,000.

As I understand, multiple Board members own multiple Edgewood properties, plus many if not all RVs in the parking lot. They would appear to enjoy significant control of the voting as well. Their interests clearly do not align with the interests of the average Edgewood homeowner.

These are demonstrably not the type of people who will prioritize the needs of the community over their own desires.

I take a beating trying to deliver this information to you.  Think about it.

https://birdcageheights.com/2024/07/21/8-reserves-in-the-bank-not-55/

For Board members and their friends who seem to forget where we are:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Thanks for sharing that with us Shane. You are right, there are a lot of residents that feel they are part of a clique, are privileged, and are totally loyal to the clique. That probably is human nature? They were probably all giving orders to people as to how to arrange the deck chairs as the Titanic was sinking. Human nature is still subservient to natural selection.

Since you are a victim like the rest of us, you should also have a voice. How about I sell you 1% of my unit for a dollar. Once added to the title, you could legally attend the meetings as a homeowner, no matter the percentage. Just say the word. We appreciate you in spite of the cliques.

We have your back, sir.