I went to 6 HOA meetings over 5 years.

Two of the meetings they cancelled without saying anything due to people on the board not being available.

The other four? We couldn't vote on anything due to either missing 2 of our 4 board members, or not enough home owners showing up (likely due to the meeting time being at 5:00pm in a weekday, not allowing kids, and cancelling last minute all the time without warning).

Since we couldn't vote, the board members were allowed to make decisions FOR us.

One of the votes were for new board members...

The board member that we were voting to remove didn't show, which prevented us from voting them out.

They did that for 2 years before enough people complained, and we got a whole new management company and board members, then the cycle repeated again, only this time, they raised condo fees by $50 a month every 6 months while also removing services.

They ended up claiming that all the costs went to snow plowing, until someone requested the receipts and did the math. The numbers were way off, and it was found that the new manager was increasing rates and pocketing the cash.

So glad to be out of the place.