I'm an owner of 3 condo's on the Northcoast. The building was once a resort and now turned into condo's. There are 60 units with about 50 to 55 owned. Parking has become a major problem because the complex was not build for this in mind. At the present time we have about 15 parking space available inside our gated and secured area. As I understand parking is common ground just like the pool area . Our President of the Homeowners just send out an e-mail on Friday. To be fair I copied and pasted the whole e-mail so I don't leave anything out.
Here are my questions and concerns.
* Can a President make a major decision like this without ever having a posted meeting with owners.
* Can a President demand to start charging for common ground of a complex with out being written in the By Laws
* He has demanded 1 year advance payment ???
* We have at leat 50 owners and only 15 will get a spot now and when , if ever the rest of the lot is finished it will only be a total of 28 spots. This hurts the property value to anyone who didn't pay for a space.
*There will never be enough room to make a space for every unit.
* I was strong armed into paying for at leat 1 space due to the fact I have a tenant arriving tomorrow and he will have a rental car.
Words can't be written of how upset I am over this. I have 2 other properties and now there value went down and trying to sell them just got harder.
This is completely unfair . What next he decideds the pool isn't big enough for all the owners, so we will have to swim on odd and even days depending on your condo number and then have to pay an extra 300 pesos a month. One year in advance.
I pay maintenance fees for the whole complex including the common ground.
I will contact my lawyer in the morning about this issue.
My question to the group is : Has anyone had these problems before and what can I do.
I did vote him in office, but never thought he would pull something like this. Just to be fair he has done a good job the last 2years. I don't agree with everything but this one is hurting my property value.
I do understand there is a serious problem with parking. I propossed that we raise the maintenance fees up only 300 pesos a month which would generate an extra 1,800,000 pesos a year to build more parking spots. And that went no where. 10 pesos a day , can you beleive that.
Here is the e-mail with one week notice of the new change.
" Dear owners
as you have noted quite often, we have a big problem with the parking lot situation here in our plant. We possess only 15 regular parking lots for 56 single apartments. We have already the situation that on daily bases approximately 5-8 parking lots are missing and owners of many years have to park their vehicles over night outside .Additionally repeatedly owners course-parked and even threatened each other and could only after hours move their vehicle . Since more apartments are sold and rented, this situation will very soon be intensified. In the New Year we expect, because of more rented and sold units of at least 8 - 10 further apartments and a corresponding increased demand at parking lots.
For fire-police reasons, as well as under the criterion of security within the plant, this condition is no longer portable in this form.
We decided therefore to tackle the development of the parking lots with priority within Tropicana Sur.
For the financing of the development of the parking lot we offer renting a firm parking lot to the owners within the plant for 1 year. The monthly amount of renting is 400,00 RD$ per parking lot and is bounded to the apartment. The rent per parking lot is to be paid for the full year in advance (4.800,00 RD$) and may be used then by the respective parking lot tenant only. The parking lot is marked with the apartment number and may be only occupied starting from 01.01.2009 by the tenant of the parking lot.
The order personnel are not allowed to permit starting from 01.01.2009 other vehicles on rented parking lots.
Since we have to assign only 15 parking lots, I would like that all owners register as soon as possible at the administration in order to rent their parking lot.
Of course maximally 1 parking lot can be rented for each apartment.
Please consider that also after the development for all apartments sufficient parking lots will be missing. If you need thus a parking lot, act rapidly, in order to secure your parking lot.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year wishes you
The executive committee
Short term rentals will have the following costs and can be taken also by tenants, if space is available:
1 day ?????????????? ?????80.00 RD$
1 week ??????????? ???400.00 RD$
1month ??????????? 1,200.00 RD$
Here are my questions and concerns.
* Can a President make a major decision like this without ever having a posted meeting with owners.
* Can a President demand to start charging for common ground of a complex with out being written in the By Laws
* He has demanded 1 year advance payment ???
* We have at leat 50 owners and only 15 will get a spot now and when , if ever the rest of the lot is finished it will only be a total of 28 spots. This hurts the property value to anyone who didn't pay for a space.
*There will never be enough room to make a space for every unit.
* I was strong armed into paying for at leat 1 space due to the fact I have a tenant arriving tomorrow and he will have a rental car.
Words can't be written of how upset I am over this. I have 2 other properties and now there value went down and trying to sell them just got harder.
This is completely unfair . What next he decideds the pool isn't big enough for all the owners, so we will have to swim on odd and even days depending on your condo number and then have to pay an extra 300 pesos a month. One year in advance.
I pay maintenance fees for the whole complex including the common ground.
I will contact my lawyer in the morning about this issue.
My question to the group is : Has anyone had these problems before and what can I do.
I did vote him in office, but never thought he would pull something like this. Just to be fair he has done a good job the last 2years. I don't agree with everything but this one is hurting my property value.
I do understand there is a serious problem with parking. I propossed that we raise the maintenance fees up only 300 pesos a month which would generate an extra 1,800,000 pesos a year to build more parking spots. And that went no where. 10 pesos a day , can you beleive that.
Here is the e-mail with one week notice of the new change.
" Dear owners
as you have noted quite often, we have a big problem with the parking lot situation here in our plant. We possess only 15 regular parking lots for 56 single apartments. We have already the situation that on daily bases approximately 5-8 parking lots are missing and owners of many years have to park their vehicles over night outside .Additionally repeatedly owners course-parked and even threatened each other and could only after hours move their vehicle . Since more apartments are sold and rented, this situation will very soon be intensified. In the New Year we expect, because of more rented and sold units of at least 8 - 10 further apartments and a corresponding increased demand at parking lots.
For fire-police reasons, as well as under the criterion of security within the plant, this condition is no longer portable in this form.
We decided therefore to tackle the development of the parking lots with priority within Tropicana Sur.
For the financing of the development of the parking lot we offer renting a firm parking lot to the owners within the plant for 1 year. The monthly amount of renting is 400,00 RD$ per parking lot and is bounded to the apartment. The rent per parking lot is to be paid for the full year in advance (4.800,00 RD$) and may be used then by the respective parking lot tenant only. The parking lot is marked with the apartment number and may be only occupied starting from 01.01.2009 by the tenant of the parking lot.
The order personnel are not allowed to permit starting from 01.01.2009 other vehicles on rented parking lots.
Since we have to assign only 15 parking lots, I would like that all owners register as soon as possible at the administration in order to rent their parking lot.
Of course maximally 1 parking lot can be rented for each apartment.
Please consider that also after the development for all apartments sufficient parking lots will be missing. If you need thus a parking lot, act rapidly, in order to secure your parking lot.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year wishes you
The executive committee
Short term rentals will have the following costs and can be taken also by tenants, if space is available:
1 day ?????????????? ?????80.00 RD$
1 week ??????????? ???400.00 RD$
1month ??????????? 1,200.00 RD$
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