How Dare You ask us to account for Your Money!!!???

The Audacity!

The way those people are carrying on you'd think that it really matters how their money was spent, and who benefitted!

Don't they know it's Politically Incorrect to demand accountability? Feelings have been hurt! They will be sued, using their own money to pay legal fees, of course!

Haven't they even heard what Hillary Clinton says to hard questions on accountability? The answer has to be: "what difference does it make?"

So it is with Florida Property Management Group (FPMG). What difference does it make what FPMG has done with funds from Devon-Aire Villas #3 Homeowners Association, "the HOA?"

The law has no teeth; it is a paper tiger, so they say.

Ask anyone who works for the Florida Department of  Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). They can't or won't do a thing to stop HOA and Condo Association abuses. Corrupt property management companies in Florida bank on this; they take your money, spend that as they please, keep a portion for themselves and expect no consequences to sting them.

So, what difference does it make that a pair of pesky women ask for documentation from FPMG? Maybe FPMG has no records to give? Maybe FPMG won't allow access to records they do have? Nevertheless, FPMG intends to sue a pair of pesky women from Devon-Aire Villas #3 HOA, using HOA funds, for bothering to ask questions and for demanding access to documents in accordance with Florida Statutes.

And they are threatened, for a third time, with a lawsuit for writing this blog, which they do not write!

President Reagan said, "Take down that wall!" And it came down. FPMG says, "Take down that blog!" But this blog won't come down unless FPMG turns over all requested records for Devon-Aire Villas #3, and those records show that FPMG hasn't broken laws.

The not-so-funny thing is that FPMG seems to believe that a pair of pesky homeowners in the HOA are producing this blog. That assumption is wrong, as this writer has stated here before. Actually, this blog represents every homeowner in the HOA community who has signed a recall petition to have the HOA board removed. That is well over one hundred persons, and because the success of this mission will benefit every owner in Devon-Aire Villas #3, we also represent more than 250 owners.

Every property owner in the HOA community deserves to know where his or her money has been spent. They deserve to know who has a contract with the HOA, and for what services. They deserve to know whether or not those contracts and subcontracts were competitive, and whether or not contracts or subcontracts are let to benefit friends and family of people at FPMG or the Board of Directors. As in the earlier post, as a analogy, every homeowner has a right to now how much lunch their lunch money will buy before and after they turn it over to their classroom warden, a.k.a. "teacher."

As far as that paper tiger at Florida's DBPR goes, this writer once worked for the State of Florida in another department. There were limits to our authority. Yet, on several occasions one "rubbed elbows" with persons in law enforcement. Those professionals were very interested in information that indicated a probable instance of "fraud, waste or abuse," or more specifically financial corruption. We were urged to share information in the event a criminal case could be made. Staff at DBPR has that option; to pass forward information about ongoing probable corruption is to serve public interests.