Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Maybe not that gaudy, but please share your thoughts. Like anything else, we're looking for the best quality for better than the best price!
Updating our Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions will facilitate our goal of lowering our annual dues back to the same amount we had in 2000 if we are able to self-manage.
The world outside is getting stranger. As we are lucky to live in a small neighborhood, we need to know our neighbors as we never know when we may need their help or them ours.
Waste & Trash pick up at Joliette Place is usually Wednesdays between 6 to 8 a.m.
More info: https://www.republicservices.com/
Joliette Place is a small HOA with only 36 members. More people decide to rent property from within homeowners associations. To date, about a third of the 36 homes in our association are rentals.
Joliette Place HOA expects both the renter and Member/homeowner to abide by the regulations. Landlords must enforce the community's rules when tenants lease property from them. As homeowners are responsible for tenants' violations, homeowners should provide rental agreements with HOA rules to tenants. These legal documents ensure renters comply with our association's regulations.
Our subdivision started in 1999 and was self-managed by the board until about 2008 at which time one of the directors that was doing the majority of the everyday management sold and moved. The board at that time hired a PMC (Property Management Company). Within a year, a few of the homeowners noticed issues and addressed the board who in turn asked them to check with the PMC as they really weren't active as a board. From that point it took a few months to let that PMC go for mismanaging and not following through on their fiduciary responsibilities to the association.
In 2010 with a new board in place we went back to self-managing our association. All was going smoothly with the exception of one homeowner that found that the last board and/or PMC had failed to file the Association's Annual Report with the Secretary of State in 2009 and that the association was therefor defunct and he didn't have to pay his annual association dues anymore. Ongoing letters from this member and his pro bono attorney friend made the board question bringing a PMC back onboard. To shorten this history, that one member's crusade talked three other members into the unfounded accusations and fraud they were claiming. Note that all four of those members have sold and moved out by the end of 2018, but not without costing all of us money, time and aggravation (dealing with them and a few PMCs).
On November 6th, the board met with our PMC we've had for almost three and a-half years. Questions were asked without getting clear answers, and the lack of transparency was astonishing for a company that has the legal duty to be our fiduciary. A few days after that meeting, the board received an email form the PMC that was as they say "the last straw" for the board. This is a quote from that email: "Regarding the requested bank statements, you are requesting me to go back three plus years at my busiest time of year. I will have the bank statements as soon as possible." Since we had been asking for our bank statements for weeks, we thought we'd get our own bank statements ourselves. That's when it all hit the fan. When we hired this PMC, one of our directors signed an application provided by the PMC to become a signatory for our bank account. However, for some reason, the PMC never processed his application with the bank. So actually our bank account/s was highjacked. Our association is now self-managing due to this PMC's mismanagement, malfeasants and negligence (not following our board's legal directives and not fulfilling their fiduciary responsibilities.).
We all would like to live our lives in peace, pay your dues and not be bothered with the everyday management of the subdivision. Your board feels the same.
Our goal as the board is the same as all of the association members:
How do we obtain what we want?
The primary purpose of an HOA is to protect property values and maintain common elements of the community. To cover the cost of maintenance, the community association may impose mandatory fees upon association members. In the event of account delinquency, the homeowners’ association can place liens on property to recover lost income.
HOA board members serve the association without getting paid; members serve as volunteers who can’t receive a salary, compensation, or any form of financial benefit.
Joliette Place has found that the customer service in property management companies and their fulfilling their fiduciary legal mandates to be fiduciaries to their clients is not what it used to be. As for the cost of hiring a property management company for a small HOA, it costs more than the total of all the annual running costs combined, and in our case, would more than double what our 2023 annual fees were.
10664 W Victory Rd, Boise, ID 83709
they like all of us, desire some of the same things in life. The board's first and foremost goal is to protect all members' property values and maintain common elements of the community. We all want to live in a friendly, safe and clean neighborhood. All of us should aspire to make Joliette Place better.
As of December 2023, we are again self-managing our HOA, and the board is asking for your help by your volunteering on a committee and bringing your ideas with solutions to make Joliette Place a better place to live and pursue happiness. (Click Here for Details)