Susan Feels Really Peeved Over Abuse

The annual Board Member Election was conducted in an exceptionally inadequate manner by both the property management firm and the Board of Directors, excluding the newest elected member.

Here we go, there is much to consider!

I deliberated extensively on how I wished to convey this segment. Should I dissect every detail into several parts, or should I simply provide a summary of the most outrageous elements?

Ultimately, I opted for a summary. If the Board of Directors and Property Management Team permitted the Vice President to operate fraudulently, whether due to incompetence or intent, for four years, then the smaller, albeit equally unethical actions would not be as surprising.

Those who decided to run completed a Letter of Intent (LOI) and returned it; all were accepted.

1. On January 21, 2025, we received an email from Property Management titled January Newsletter. This was, in fact, a letter informing owners that they had chosen not to mail candidate statements to owners. You had to request that they be sent to you! They would only be distributed via email. Thus, you could only view the mission statements of any new candidates running if you had an email registered with the Property Management company. They anticipated that owners would vote without any information regarding whom they were voting for. Now, what could be the reason for this? Perhaps they hoped that individuals would simply vote for what they were already familiar with?

The justification they provided for this decision was to ‘save money.’ However, Robert Hooper had expended $4,000 of our POA dues to distribute a ‘Holiday Letter’ praising himself and the other board members while disparaging anyone who raised concerns about the situation. It appears he also sent a letter to owners the previous year discussing the ‘disruptors’ as well!

Screenshot of the statement he made in 2023, and used POA dues to mail to owners.

“2024 Holiday Letter” that cost owners $4,000 (Very presumptuous of him to assume everyone celebrates Christmas. Judaism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, some Christian denominations like Churches of Christ, and Seventh-Day Adventists. Other groups, such as the United Pentecostal Church International and the United Church of God, also discourage or prohibit Christmas celebrations.)

2. They will only count your vote if your signature is on the OUTSIDE of the envelope that you MAIL through the USPS. (Are they unaware of the extent of identity theft that occurs these days?)

3. A considerable number of owners are located in Canada. The standard processing time for mail dispatched through USPS from the United States to Canada is 20 business days. I believe that the email sent on January 21, 2025, coincided with the mailing of the ballots. The election took place on February 15, 2025, and the cutoff for ballots to be received and counted by mail was February 13th or 14th, 2025. This allowed only 23-24 days for the ballots to reach the members, be filled out, and returned. Are you following this? They sent out the ballots with merely 23-24 days permitted for them to arrive, be completed, and sent back. The usual processing time ONE WAY between the US and Canada is 20 BUSINESS DAYS! Consequently, if an owner residing in Canada received that letter by mail containing the ballot and desired the statements of the candidates, they would not have had sufficient time to receive, review, make an informed choice, and return the ballot before the deadline.

4. During the annual meeting, several former Board members were present, one of whom is no longer a property owner and had no legitimate reason to attend. However, he was referred to as a “guest speaker.” The discussions primarily revolved around praising the current Board of Directors. No other candidates were afforded the chance to invite a guest speaker to highlight their own merits! Furthermore, the current Board of Directors was granted access to owner contact information for campaigning purposes, which was not made available to any other candidate.

It appears that the Property Management and the Board of Directors have intentionally established a situation where a significant number of votes go uncounted, allowing the Current Board of Directors to campaign with access to owner information and special speakers, while other candidates are denied equivalent opportunities.

This represents merely a minor segment of the various unethical actions carried out by Property Management Services and the Board of Directors to disrupt and manipulate election outcomes.

The interference and manipulation of the election were astonishing to me. What made this especially challenging to accept is that we have a member of the association who holds an elected government position. Ron Gould, the Mohave County Supervisor for District 5, only certified an election in 2022 due to external pressure. Nevertheless, he seems to be completely at ease with election interference and manipulation occurring within his own community!

You can interpret that as you wish, but for me, there are RED FLAGS ALL AROUND!

Now, what will we talk about next? I think I might do a list of You Have Got To Be Kidding Me’s!