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Catherine's avatar

We have a core group on the board too. four out of the five members are great friends. I’m tired of everyone complaining about everything yet not one person is willing to help when we’re out weeding or watering or repairing. It’s our vacation home. We want to relax when we’re there but…. We had a neighbor come out and complain for 45 minutes as my husband and I were fertilizing the new landscaping. She didn’t understand why the landscaping company wasn’t doing it. I turned to her and said oh of course they would do it. But they will charge us. We don’t have the money in the budget to pay them for that unless we raise our Hoa dues. I said I didn’t have a problem with than. Did she? It shut her up but not for long. So tired of it.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Yes, landscaping services is one of the worst. No problem finding companies to mow & trim trees - but weeding, planting plants and maintaining it's either really expensive or really bad follow through. When I first got on the board ~2005 we had a 'teen list' of neighborhood teens who would advertise their availability for odd jobs - from dog walking, babysitting, leaf raking, snow removal. My son did a ton of that as he was in Boy Scouts and used the money he made for going on 3 'high adventure' trips. We had several teens the board used to pay for that sort of thing, with a few of us on the board working alongside them and supervising. But any more, seems like there are no teens who want to sweat or get dirty. I am no longer on the board but still pitch in on some of the 'clean up days' that they try to get volunteers for. Same old, same old, lots of keyboard warriors who complain but few who show up to DO stuff.

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