Should I stay or should I go - in/from my HOA?

Should I stay or should I go - in/from my HOA?

August 14, 2007
First was the Delegate’s Corner blasting CZ Master Association board of director’s critics for speaking out against a corrupt delegate system and electoral process in favor of direct elections, consistent with current legislation, and consistent with the actions of most common interest development communities.
Now in the Director’s Corner of the August 8, 2007 issue of the Laguna Woods Globe, Jan Mclaughlin blasts certain community residents characterized as “a relatively small group called the Voice”
BTW: We have been to Laguna Woods Village resident's Voice meetings. We have covered Laguna Woods Village resident's Voice meetings, We know certain Laguna Woods Village resident's Voice members - this is not a relatively small group - unless the size is relative to all the residents in California, that is!
Ms. Mclaughlin describes her journey from the Midwest as follows: came here on Sept 1, 1987 from Lincoln, Nebraska counting my blessings hat we had found this wonderful place in one of the most expensive parts of he United States where we could afford to retire”, then goes on to to defend the property management company, and ask the following questions:
1. “Our present Management Company has served us well for over 30 years…., if this place has been so mismanaged, has it managed to stay one of the most attractive senior communities in the country and still one of the most affordable”
2. “If you truly believe things are so bad, why do you stay?”
In our coverage of common interest development communities for the last few years, the most often asked question is number two: Why do you stay? The Orange County assistant district attorney, just like the Attorney General, or even the California Bar might ask similar questions: if residents are not happy, why not elect a different board?
For that matter, during the last presidential elections there were a number of high profile figures (read liberal extremists) who vowed that since things were so bad in the United States, if President G. W. Bush was reelected, they would leave the country – they did not.
We have a couple of questions of our own: When we ask about key business indicators as evidence that a supplier is being managed properly or not, directors simply stare at us.
1. Why Indeed, is it that a common interest development company has stuck with the same property management company given the number of resident complaints- does the board have a set of KBI that it uses to measure supplier performance, including the property management company?
2. Is it fair to say that critics of the status quo may have valid points, not to bring down the community, but to build it up? If not, if the criticism is to much, then why does the current board stay?
For example, we consider the CotoBuzz Journal as a change agent – change s effected via satire as follows: “The best satire does not seek to harm or damage by its ridicule, unless we speak of damage structure of vice, but rather seek to create a shock of recognition and to make vice repulsive so that the vice will be expunged from the person or society under attack or from the person or society intended to benefit from the attack (regardless of who is the immediate object of attack); whenever possible this shock of recognition is to be conveyed through laughter or wit: The formula of satire is one of honey and medicine. Far from being simply destructive, satire is implicitly constructive” (Harris, 1990) Which reminds us of that old Cornhusker’s joke. When the Cornhuskers came to play USC, a fan asked the Cornhuskers quarterback what the “N” in his jersey stood for. Quick as a whistle, the quarterback responded “Nowledge”!













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