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Originally Posted by Red
Alright, I see that we are going to split hairs. Let me re-word it. I believe that the majority of residents have no control over what the condo board will decide on. (1)Do you agree with that?
You yourself said that you had 5 people out of 150 doors (300 residents?) on the board. (2)Correct?
(3) Then why is my blanket statement that condo owners have no control is so out of line? In the condo you lived in, only tiny group had a say, no?
(4) I guess one can join the board and fight it out and try to convince others, but is this really a good rebuttal to my comment? My comment was quite true and I stand by it.
(5) And for the record. My very close family members own/owned condos in Lk Bonavista and Discovery Ridge. Plus I work with people that own condos. I hear enough to form an opinion. (6) Not that it's that hard to realize that not living under board rules, any board, would be more empowering.
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(1) No, a small group make the decisions because only a small group decides to get involved. Every person in the assication has a say and a voice, but VERY few actually exercise it. By not getting involved they are impliclitly approving of the actions of the board.
(2) Yes, 5 people are on the board becasue they are the only ones that volunteered. The ther 295 residents had a chance to volunteer (they chose not to), they had a chance to elect them (they chose not to), they had a chance to propose changes to and vote on by-laws at the AGMs (they chose not to), they had a chance to come to board meetings and discuss issues with how the complex was being run (they chose not to). Just becaue people don't exercise their right to control, doesn't mean they don't have it.
(3) It is wrong because not having control, and not exercising it are two very different things. Yes, there was a small group that made decisions becasue were were the only ones interested in doing so, and we did so with what little direction we recieved from the rest of the residents. In the absence of that, we did what we thought best.
(4) Your comment is competely false. As I've said there is a big differnce between not having control, and not excersing it.
(5) Were your friends on the boards of these conods? If so then you MAY have some insight, but still quite a bit less than anyone who has actually done so. Since when is "I've heard stories" a good substitute for "I have direct experience"?
(6) Again, no one has ever said that living in a condo is as flexible as living in your own home. That's a statement you've tried to attribute to me, even though I've never made it. You on the other hand are trying to argue that living in a condo leaves you in a positon of having zero control, which is 100% false