Posts

Community Associations Institute

As long as state laws continue to grant HOA boards excessive power combined with very little accountability, we can expect HOA abuse to continue, if not grow worse. FROM IAC article  The NOBLE COMPANY is a proud member of this lobby group which tries and mostly succeeds at thwarting efforts to give homeowners an equal playing field, unlike the real estate industry which does a much better job. One article paragraph sums up CAI pretty well: All the information I have been able to gather over the years, with regard to homeowner approval of the CID ( Common Interest Development, such as Egret Run ) housing industry, clearly shows the vast majority of CID homeowners are not at all happy with this industry. These tales of trust and devotion appear to originate from only one source: the CAI and its membership. I have never been able to find an independent, outside source that had anything kind to say about the CAI.
Post a Comment
Read more
 We recently received our HOA FEE letter informing us of  monthly fee increases.   I and a group of "full time" residents believe changes  to a more engaged board, and adherence to the by-laws  would be very helpful at this point.   However, as hard as we haved tried and the many hours  that I personally expended trying to help each of us understand  how very important good governamce is, APATHY towards better  governance is RAMPANT.  Apathy, due to the way our by-laws are constructed makes it  difficult for the full time residents to be governed  in a fair, and transparent manner.  If you ask an Egret Run "absentee owner" (defined as: either here  only a few weeks a year, or owns only as rental investment) how they view  how the BOD is governing, they will state that the board is  doing a good job.  Why? Because they do not live here full time, all that matters  to them is what the Noble...
Post a Comment
Read more

Problem 2 - Proper Recording

Even though the root of a major problem was outlined  in the previous posting, AND we are now aware that there  is a difference between "SUCCESSIVE" and "CONSECUTIVE", AND even if the two words are interchangeable (which  they are not), AND if there actually was a RESOLUTION  (which there is not), to make a new by-law binding, all new  BY-LAW RESOLUTIONS must  be recorded.            Since 2018, the SC Homeowners Association            Act states the following: "In order to be enforceable,            all governing documents for a homeowners association            must be recorded in the public registry of the county            where the property is located.            To continue to be enforceable, governing documents not       ...
1 comment
Read more

Egret Run HOA History Part 2

In one of the first posts on Egret Run Voice titled Egret Run History 1, the post stated two (2) major problems with the manner in which the ER BOD has continued to use information from the failed attempt to change the by-laws and the subsequent, but suspicious way the board has used an erroneous interpretation of the original by-laws to justify being elected to the board over and over and over, etc.  The two major problems are outlined below.  Problem 2 will be addressed in a separate post:    1                   PROBLEM: In order for the FERRIS family to stay on the ER BOARD, they needed to change the by-laws. The original law firm that constructed the ER By-laws correctly stated the wishes and will of the developers.   Even before the South Carolina Homeowners Association Act was enacted in 2018, they advised the developers that non-consecutive term limits would l...
Post a Comment
Read more

Egret Run History 1

Even though there were occupants in Egret Run in 1999, the Egret Run community held the first official organizational meeting on March 12, 2009.  AM Ferris had been on the developer board and wanted to remain on the board of the newly formed Egret Run Homeowner’s association.  Ferris was President of the BOD at the time.  It is unknown as to the desire to stay on the board of an HOA, but the Ferris family wanted to be able to stay on the ER BOD, seemingly, forever.  As was learned from a response to the SC DEPT of Consumer Affairs filing, a special meeting was convened in 2010, in an attempt by the BOD, with AM FERRIS AS PRESIDENT to change the by-laws to allow members of the ER BOD to run for and be elected over and over and over,  etc.    The vote to change the by-laws failed.   Then, the ER BOD, once again with a FERRIS as PRESIDENT engaged an attorney, probably on retainer with the management company at that time, who wrote an op...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Ferris Family

  In our neighborhood, there is one family, the FERRIS family, who, by any means possible, has been able to serve on the ER BOD, with a few exceptions continuously for more than 12 years.   And after being asked many times, how an EGRET RUN board member can stay on the board over and over again, I finally figured it out.  STAY TUNED FOR MORE.  IT IS NOT A SHORT STORY!
Post a Comment
Read more

South Carolina Protects Developers and HOA Management Companies, not the Members!

  S tate legislators who refuse to create adequate accountability and oversight of the approximately 6500 HOA’s operating in South Carolina, and the property management companies who know exactly how to manipulate and exploit the HOA system of governance for their indirect benefit.    As Noble often stipulates, they work “at the pleasure of the board” which hires them and approves their annual contract.    Seems like their main objective is to ensure another contract for another year, without much care for the general members.  
Post a Comment
Read more