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There's a saying "talk is cheap" but in our case it costs over $1900 a year. There were a lot of promises during election that are not happening. Good point that the BOD let the PM go and changed attorneys without a succession plan. Who is working with the attorney on the 12' wide issue? Since we don't have a property manager I suspect no one will during the winter so another year lost. Getting 12' wides approved was a campaign promise. I need a new trailer as do many of my neighbors and I hate to spend tens of thousands on another tip out. I have to think long and hard if I want to keep giving dues to a place that is fast becoming the laughing stock of the RV communities. Still no PM, why not? From what I've seen happening to the economy people are looking for jobs so either the standards of some of the board members are too high or in order to have applicants meet those standards more money needs to be offered. As to the community web site, I get more information here than there. By the way, thanks Chipper for all the snow damage, insurance and contractor information. Without this site we'd all be like mushrooms living in the dark. This is the information age with our generation linked to the Internet and the LA website needs to accomodate the need to share information. If they aren't going to keep us posted on what's going on then this site should be a bullet on their menu so owners have a place to go to express their opinions.

anon--your right --- new housing is important to any community and a drive around la will tell you that there are plenty of trailers have have been allowed to deteriorate and replacing them is important to the overall welfare of the community-- they're derelict trailers and probably many of these owners of these trailers are no longer paying their dues-- so la gets a double whammy -- ugly unkempt properties and loss of the fees -- there are way to many of these and that will drive down the value of every one's property--investing in new housing requires la to get the ordinances changed-- a lawyer is needed to accomplish this action-- so far the membership hasn't seen any action on this matter-- not good

the selection of a person for manager is complicated by the process and structure the bod has in place for this task -- 7 people with 7 agendas and 7 set of qualifications--- no consensus between them, qualifications that weigh heavy on matters that are incidental to running la and much less on the need to find someone to operate la in a professional manner-- they are hung up on matters that are at best 5% of the responsibility of operating a community-- 95% of what is important to running a
operation like la is lost on them--- they just can't see that--- another issue is that none of these people know how to or are displaying any knowledge of the process of drawing up job dessciptions, qualifying candidates or interviewing candidates-- they are amateurish at best and dysfunctional at worst--- not much to work with here

my blog has been operating for 2 years and quite frankly i am unhappy that too few people even bother to read it or comment or send me anything at all -- i know that getting the members aware of the blog is difficult and word of mouth is the way most people find out about it--- i would hope that members would email their friends and help get the word out about this blog -- this blog is for the la members to have a place to communicate with each other and post their good - bad and ugly comments about la--- surely not everyone can be drinking the bod kool aid-- some must have some issues they'd like to post -- so let's see what happens and maybe by spring more people will check out and join the blog

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