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Our kids moved out.\u00a0\u00a0We lived in a former display home by a main street, and we took great care of our lawn and landscaping, which was time-consuming.\u00a0\u00a0My wife wanted to move to a nicer neighborhood nearby.\u00a0\u00a0Our agent showed us a spec-built villa on a wooded lot.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0loved the lot, the great room, yard work by the homeowners\u2019 association, the central location, the attractive three-street neighborhood, and the brick mailboxes.\u00a0<\/p>

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Eighteen years later, we still love our home, but that yard work brought complications.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, the developer piled up a maintenance line-item for the association that topped $157,000 before we interviewed a lawyer.\u00a0\u00a0But then the developer went bankrupt and gave up trying to take that money from our then-61 households.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Six years later, a second developer started completing our neighborhood, and a few board members seized that opportunity.\u00a0\u00a0The new homeowners added more money, so the new board members decided then to fulfill a promise in the covenants to maintain roofing.\u00a0\u00a0We disagreed.\u00a0\u00a0Homeowners should keep fulfilling the promise of low assessments, not disproportionately take from new neighbors.\u00a0\u00a0But the developers\u2019 covenants made the boards powerful, so we couldn\u2019t stop this.\u00a0\u00a0There had been roughly 10 years of not saving toward roofing, so the owners of the homes built by the first developer received windfalls of roughly $7,500 per home, paid for by the remaining owners.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We found erosion and took a landscaper\u2019s advice to route our gutter downspouts underground to French drains.\u00a0\u00a0Board members secretly paid to do this same thing for other homeowners, and afterward told gutter cleaners to clean the other homeowners\u2019 underground lines but not ours.<\/p>\n

Board members paid to aerate everybody\u2019s pond.\u00a0\u00a0Subsequent board members stopped paying.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A tree on the common ground that was leaning toward our home hollowed out, and finally in zero wind fell onto our roof.\u00a0\u00a0Board members first tried not to pay to remove it, but then relented.\u00a0\u00a0Even so, now they\u2019re not repairing the resulting roof, gutter, and siding damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our Missouri state and St.\u00a0\u00a0Peters city experts both tell residents to replace honeysuckle to prevent erosion, but past board members had told homeowners not to.\u00a0\u00a0Current board members still aren\u2019t addressing honeysuckle.\u00a0\u00a0Now they\u2019re instead remediating some homeowners\u2019 erosion by using heavy equipment to bring in rocks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last summer, a rewrite committee called a homeowners meeting to push us to approve new covenants that would keep all the current restrictions on homeowners and add more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I spoke up that we had never agreed to the covenants themselves; we had just bought the home we wanted.\u00a0\u00a0When we were later asked to agree to new covenants as a standalone contract, with all the same restrictions on homeowners and all the same powerful boards, for us, that was an easy no.\u00a0<\/p>

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Another committee member stood up to criticize me for never having worked on the board or committee.\u00a0\u00a0The committee\u2019s presenter backhandedly said no, Jim did do something: He sent a proposed association constitution to members, and it went nowhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That little exchange didn\u2019t work for them; my comment helped defeat that rewrite.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, though, a rewrite committee was back, telling homeowners they were still rewriting.\u00a0\u00a0The only sticking point they had left was erosion, which they thought they would meet with homeowners about.\u00a0\u00a0They ended up meeting only secretly with a small group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The current board then pushed their next set of new covenants on homeowners in April, then May, then June.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All of the complications above were fostered by our Missouri state lawmakers.\u00a0\u00a0Their nonprofit corporation law requires associations to have boards of at least three directors, requires boards to appoint executives who may be directors, and doesn\u2019t require associations to have judicial functions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Given this picture and supporting discussion, I canvassed our now-complete 125\u00a0households and reached people in 65 percent of the households.\u00a0\u00a0I took a simple survey about the official covenants and a possible new governance framework, and the survey was answered in 34 percent of households.\u00a0\u00a0Meeting to discuss a new governance framework was supported in 30 percent of households.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I want our documents to be modeled on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the U.S. Code, and executive orders, so\u00a0I wrote my drafts accordingly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I added a software standard and a standard for handling maintenance requests.\u00a0\u00a0I estimated rebates and repayments for roofing, to make everybody whole.\u00a0\u00a0I gave an example of a table of homeowner reviews of contractors, to help homeowners arrange work themselves.\u00a0\u00a0I added background notes on how to make governance simple and keep it simple, and excerpts of state statues and the city code.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year, the official rewrites were approved.\u00a0\u00a0Still, I started meeting with homeowners to discuss what governance framework most of us will agree will work better for us.\u00a0\u00a0Also, even under our current governance documents, any board majority could voluntarily follow almost all of my proposed governance changes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

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