HOA entry into condo for pesticide spraying

[SandyJet]

I used to love the days of widowed snowbirds with no pets in my complex who only used unit a few months a year. The full time folk and folk who work from home and multiple pets become a pain for the board.

I do the Treasurer report at the condo meeting. A lawsuit requires disclosure and for me to tell the financial impact to building. I would in this case be forced to name the person suing, explain the financial impact and possible hikes in maintenance due to this individual and present the option of us no longer spraying anyone units and risk the bugs or skip his unit.

Suing the HOA is always a bad choice in most cases. Better to work it out.

I dont spay in peoples units at all. If folks asked when extrerminatior is doing common areas I could have them spary the unit. But not going out of my way.

[Techn0lady]

> Suing the HOA is always a bad choice in most cases. Better to work it out.

It's a bad choice for the HOA certainly but a wonderful one to preserve the rights of the owner. Your thinly veiled threats of exposure and group condemnation to the involved hypothetical owner only point out more clearly why a good lawyer is one's only and best defense against incompetent HOAs and/or HOAs who's board members have let the tiny amount of power they possess go entirely to their heads.

[SandyJet]

Originally Posted by Techn0lady

> Suing the HOA is always a bad choice in most cases. Better to work it out.

It's a bad choice for the HOA certainly but a wonderful one to preserve the rights of the owner. Your thinly veiled threats of exposure and group condemnation to the involved hypothetical owner only point out more clearly why a good lawyer is one's only and best defense against incompetent HOAs and/or HOAs who's board members have let the tiny amount of power they possess go entirely to their heads.

It is a bad choice, because if you lose you have to pay your own legal fees and then condo can sue you for their lost legal fees or if association eats the legal fees you end up paying a pro-ratio portion anyhow.

If you file a lawsuit the condo association must disclose who is suing and if you win must disclose the amount.

Personally I would just skip this guys unit. Unless bugs started coming out of unit what do I care.

At last condo meeting we did not want to name names, but condos attorney was asked point blank who deadbeats were and said since a lien/lawsuit is public record and a condo owner asked the question and I work for condo I will tell. He named every deadbeat by name, amount owed and what we are doing.

In the past we never did that. I did not want to do that at meeting. But folks who own units need to know who is suing condo, who is behind in maint, who the condo is suing etc.