Like the Destruction of a Road- theft of property
These HOA tales are SO similar to rogue districts. Our road needed nothing. It was perfect. Exactly how we wanted it. And WE live on it. But no… Crystal Farrokhi, Bob Hummel and Matt Christensen decided they knew better. THEY wanted OUR little road to THEIR standards. What THEY want to see.
Bob said that in that illegal meeting they had down here on our road with Joel and Shaun and Matt Christensen. That was one of the many times they were told straight out that they were having an illegal meeting. The term ‘quorum’ was explained and the Open Meeting law was explained. They scoffed it off. As usual.
However, during that meeting, Shaun asked where does the improvement end? If 51% of the members want to pave the road will the road district just raise the fee to cover it? And Bob said yes.
Even if it has to be raised $10,000 a year?
“Yes.”
And that’s when we had a little light go on. Just like you hear in these other HOA stories, they drive people out. They don’t like the construction equipment on your driveway, they’ll drive you out. They don’t like your humble little homes… they’ll drive you out. And with them having secret meetings (not letting members know in advance and allowing our attendance and input- completely against the law), AND refusing public record requests and unlawfully hiring shyster lawyers in back room meetings who simply carry forward their lies with zero concern for the law and personal rights or property rights… do you think they’ll stop at just getting rid of us?
Ugly cars?
Ugly Dogs?
Ugly Children?
They do what they want and answer to nobody. Ask yourself why they refuse to provide access to public records as the law requires. Ask yourself why they refuse to provide proof that they wrote checks to the ‘contractor’ . Simply writing down that they wrote $X dollars to the contractor is not evidence they did so.
They say that these records are open to view at the annual meeting, which implies they agree they are public records. Which means they must be open the rest of the time. And by law they are open to everybody, not just ‘those in good standing’ whatever the hell they define that as.
We are coming up on a year since they held their secret meeting and had our road destroyed. They said later, in yet another secret/unlawful meeting that “of course this road is going to be fixed. Of course we are going to replace the gravel.”
And then they had another meeting and filed those minutes with the county stating that the road was done. Yep, this is who we are dealing with. This is why we can easily use words like liars, untrustworthy, crooked, carpetbaggers, and dishonorable.
We already know the BS excuses they created for not replacing our road. Just waiting for them to try to make those excuses fly in front of a judge.
“Well, golly your Honor, our contractor was so scared of those people that he wouldn’t come back.”
Us- “Yeah… so scared that after the incident he stayed on the road for 5 more hours to be sure he got every piece of gravel loaded up and taken away before the week of rain.”
The judge- “As trustees, it is your responsibility to finish that project. It is the districts responsibility to maintain and repair ALL roads within the districts, despite what your bylaws might say this week. If the current contractor cannot or will not return, it is your responsibility to find another one. Court finds for plaintiff for costs of material, cost of labor for initial work, pain and suffering for being without a road for a year, and punitive penalty because as a government agency you abused your power and you had the road destroyed under color of office… BUT since it was an unlawful meeting AND after you had been advised repeatedly that unlawful meetings can result in your being held personally liable… that’s what we are going to do. Crystal, Bob and Matt… this is coming out of YOUR pocket… not the districts.”
Next time, act with honor and integrity. (two more words I’ll have to define here., for them…)