Monday, February 7, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
What motivates your board members decisions?
Some may see previous posts as ranting. I see it as releasing frustration caused from a board who doesn't listen to reason, logic, professionals, owners when the facts are in front of them. For that reason, they deserve to be used as an example of how personal obsessions cause narrow minded, unreasonable, & illogical decisions which is behavior more representative of a child assigned to be a hall monitor, verses a responsible adults. High School student councils function more professionally and efficiently than most HOA boards. I would think that the embarrassment alone would stop the behavior, but it doesn't. So we have to approach it from a different angle and recognize how individuals think. Being aware of the type of behavior to watch out for in others and themselves we can have a better understanding about what motivates them. In using the stupidity of my HOA boards actions as examples, of how dysfunctional personal agendas cause a board to become and prevent a community's progress. I hope it causes more people to want to serve on HOA boards for the purpose of returning morality, values, honesty and action based on the greater good of the whole, back to communities. As our focus on environmental issues and cost savings measures change so does our way of thinking about things. We cannot change one without the other following.
This knowledge can help to put struggling associations on the path to success and set the standard by, which all other communities are judged. As volunteers, I believe that the duty to them should be held to higher standards, because their actions directly affect the affordability of the community. Just because they are volunteers does not mean their ignorance should grant them immunity or allow them to act like a child with ADHD. A judge once said (cannot remember who said it), "ignorance of the law is no excuse." Meaning there is no such thing as an innocent mistake when acting as a fiduciary for an entire community. After all you did volunteer. That is just my belief.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Repeating the Same Mistakes Expecting Different Results
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I just had to share some news I got today. I found out Suntree HOA changed landscaping companies. It explains why our budget showed $11,000.00 for a sprinkler audit. Most landscape companies charge a high fee upon the initial contract signing for a sprinkler audit. This is essentially a guarantee that once you sign the contract you don't cancel it after they disclose everything they found wrong during the initial inspection.
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