I thought long and hard before writing this blog. I don’t want any of my readers or fans of the radio show or attendees of my seminars to take what I’m about to say as being either mean or personal because it certainly is not meant to be. So here goes……………

SOMETIMES YOUR QUESTIONS AGGRAVATE ME!

There, I said it and I said it for your own good. Let me explain. Sometimes you will tell me about how your community association manager told you that the law is to be interpreted a certain way that is clearly incorrect. Sometimes you will tell me about how your condominium or HOA attorney really doesn’t that this kind of law, but they were recommended by the management company, “so Eric, if you wouldn’t mind just clarifying something for us.”

I will answer your question each and every time, but then I wonder what in the world is going on in your community and why you continually allow it to happen.

No matter how many times I teach about the fact that the manager should not and cannot interpret the statutes and your governing documents, you always seem to listen to what the manager has to say in this regard. Then, you don’t bother getting a legal opinion from counsel because the manager actually chose the attorney, not the Board. The attorney is not well versed in this area anyway and you don’t want to spend money on attorney’s fees to get an answer you may not trust.

So, I sit there and I answer your question, and then you walk away leaving your present condition intact. And I think to myself that the members of this Board don’t have an attorney that they work with and are asking me questions that their own attorney should be answering for them. When you tell me you don’t like your management company and I ask to see their contract, you usually show me a contract for three years or more with no possibility of cancelation. So then I wonder again, who told them to sign this god forsaken document?

So again, don’t get me wrong, I love answering your questions. But here’s one for you: Why do you continuously let your association get beat up?