After conniving (with love) to put Fast Eddie in the Presidency of our HOA Board, it felt only right that I agree when he asked if I'd be the Landscape Chair. Although I vowed that I'd avoid HOA duties at all costs, this has turned out to be much less onerous than I feared. A conversation with the maintenance crew, an email about a dead tree.... these are not big problems.
Our Annual Meeting is coming up this month, if Zoom is allowable and accessible to all. Cars parked overnight in driveways is the major hot button issue; much less consequential than Impeachment, but no less fraught with partisan rhetoric. We will get through it and move on. It may not be pleasant, but it will get done.
Cornell's annual Leadership Conference is coming up this month, too. I went last year at this time; Las Vegas was a ghost town as the pandemic ramped up and travel slowed down. This year's event is, of course, virtual. Even though the most enjoyable and useful parts of these gatherings happens between the sessions, at meals and in the halls, while getting settled in our chairs and noticing one another's identifying badges, I just signed up for 5 or 6 sessions. I'm doing my best to stay connected.
And there's one more Annual Meeting to which I've been invited. It's Beth David Cemetery plot holders annual meeting, to be held the first week of March.
My mom filled the last plot in the family's section. I suppose I own the turf that contains her and Daddooooo, one over to the right, too. I signed the proxy and mailed it back, acting on behalf of the current occupants.
I'm just a little creeped out by the whole thing.
Cemetery real estate is very creepy. My parents bought a plot large enough for them, my brother and me, and our spouses. Mom is buried there, and no one else will be. It's just kind of weird and sad. They never contact me for anything, so I don't know what's happening there in Alabama.
ReplyDeleteTBG's parents asked if he wanted a space next to them....only his brother agreed.
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Does your HOA actually forbid parking a car in one's driveway overnight? What if adult children stay the night, or a guest? This seems extremely draconian.
ReplyDeleteVisitors are fine for a couple of weeks; after that there's a 3 month paid permit. If you own 3 cars, you better have a 3 car garage. The problem is high school kids with cars; a temporary problem if you're going to live in the house forever, a neighborhood nightmare if you're gonna move when the kids are grown and sell to another family with hs kids.
DeleteThe CC&R's are clear. People don't read them, even though we voted on them last year. Sigh.
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