Quote Originally Posted by vim View Post
Sorry.

I was president of my HOA for a couple years, and own a condo in an HOA run by a management company, and the difference is night and day.

If the residents did just a bit of volunteering and ran things themselves, this kind of fun is avoided. It's also a lot cheaper just to pay for bookkeeping even if no resident wants a stipend to do so.
I am not familiar with an HOA run by a management company that hasn't been hired by a Board.
How does the management company get the authority over the members of the HOA unless there is a contract with the Board or the members?
When our neighborhood was built, the construction company owned the most property and managed the HOA. As soon as the number of individual owners was over 50%, the construction company turned the HOA over to them.
The Board was elected from the owners and they hired the management company.
I know there can be a lot of different ways the HOA can be structured, but don't the home owners ultimately hire the management?