Somewhere in those sixty-one changes are the ones you'd object to. You're welcome to find them — the Association sent the full drafts, and they're only about a hundred and forty pages. There's a summary, which is shorter. It says Article V has “no changes.”
Article V is the one with the missing unit.
Unit 704 has a mortgage, a tax bill, three bedrooms and a view of the pond. What it doesn't have is a percentage of value, because it isn't in the schedule. The percentages that are there add up to 99.50% — directly underneath a line stating, twice, that they add up to 100%. The tax parcel block on the same instrument still counts 174 units. The ballot does its arithmetic on 174 too. The deed lists 173.
So the document disagrees with itself three times about how many homes are in this village, and the summary describes that article as unchanged.
Eight people rewrote your governing documents. Four of them don't live here. Two work for the management company — including its owner — and the same company receives and counts the ballots. That was on a slide at the information meeting. It wasn't in the mailing.
The current documents give you a written complaint, a thirty-day period to fix something, and a meeting with the Board before anything escalates. The new ones delete all of that and replace it with nothing. Fines double. Late fees become whatever the Board resolves they are.
If you ever take the Association to court and lose, you pay their lawyers. Win, and you still pay your own.
And you're approving every word of it “in substantially the form attached.” Substantially.
Passage needs 116 yes votes out of 174. Which means 58 co-owners voting no, or simply never returning the ballot, ends it. Fifty-eight signatures also force the Board to call a special meeting on anything you put in the notice.
That's it. That's the whole mountain. Fifty-eight neighbours out of a hundred and seventy-four, in a village where most people have never been told any of the above.
So we can tell you what the documents actually say, when the meetings are, and what the Board does next. One email a week at most, and never a word of it to anyone else. This list is kept entirely separate from the poll — signing up here cannot be connected to how your unit voted there.
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