Will All Homeowners leave. We Need Our Secret Meeting

What do they have to hide from all of you homeowners?

Yes folks, tonight the meeting is secret. 2 homeowners were present, They had to leave. I suppose that the secret meeting was probably something to do with either one of those homeowners. I just realized.... It's me!. Yes, they are discussing the up coming law suit and how they will handle it. They are also discussing how they are going to handle me in the future because this is really wearing them down. I keep applying pressure and they don't like it.

Anyway here are the highlights for the 10 minutes worth of homeowner input:

Funds have been allocated for the year and they are apparently over budget. Poor money management? I suppose. No need to go to any more meetings regarding repairs because your request may be denied since they have no money. They will argue the expense of the blacktop and roof repairs and I will argue lack of foresight from the past. This has all happened on Carols watch.

Al Dittbrenner had his garage door and light repaired and wanted reimbursement. I suppose that's OK but then he requested money for the electricity that the workers used. They spent 5 whole minutes on this. They had no idea how to figure out how much electricity costs. This is a subject that they all should know. Have they never looked at an electric utility bill and tried to figure it out?
Our management company representative said that they should get the Electric bills for the month before and pay the difference. Won't that be a surprise if the last months bill is actually higher! Does that mean he owes us money?

They wanted to pay him $25.00!

Thank you George for suggesting that we find out how much money was spent before actually paying the bill.

For those of us who are interested in continuous improvement, here is how electricity figures:

Electricity in the State of Minnesota costs 9.15 cents per killowatt hour. Thats 9.15 cents per hour to run a quantity of ten - 100watt light bulbs. Your off peak charges are 3.95 cents.

So, if a drill was used we have to know the power a drill consumes. This is 850 watts or .8KW. So in order to run the drill for 1 hour, you would need to pay .85 x 9.15c = 7.7 cents.

Lets make this clear, in order to spend $25.00 on a drill, you would need to run it continuously for 13 days for the 24 hours each day. Since workers only put in 8 hours, that means that the drill needs to be on for 40 days including weekends.

Come on Al! get real. $25.00 is half of your electric bill man. Don't accept it! you won't feel right!

The Court Date Is Set

Tuesday October 10th is the date for our court case. By now both Al Dittbrenner and Carol Ebsen have the summons to court.

You would think that they would simply return the weeds fine since the court cost to the association will be large. I did send a warning shot across the bow and let them know that this was pending but they took no action.

The arrogance persists.

Next court action is now pending

I filed for court action today against Riverview third. This after they spent a whopping 6 seconds on my request to refund $25.00 for weeds. Thanks to George who actually reminded the board that they needed to make a decision and discuss my question. Obviously, the last law suit was not incentive enough for them to sit down and start listening to complaints.
Also sited in the suit is Carols $250 charge for her day in court. I have requested that this be returned to the general maintenance fund where is came from.

We should get a court date in about 2 weeks.

See yall there.

Board May Approach Helmuth & Johnson to Get Money Back

Our incompetant board hired Helmuth and Johnson to put liens on properties. This is typically done when situations get very bad. In our case, we do it because Al Ditbrenner wants to get home and simply lien everyone. It is also due to the fact that dominant board members don’t know what they are doing.
Helmuth and Johnson do not care if the Association is acting outside of the law because the concequences are the concern of the association and not the Law Firm. So, the money won't be coming back.
One day, some of the board members (they know who they are) will step back and realize that people simply dislike them because of their incompetance and power hungry ways.