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Absolutely NO communications from the board over the past year? No newsletter? No email notices? No rule enforcement? |
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Outdated Shadowood website that is little more than a [Board officer] Daniel Chambers fan club? With his family and buddies featured but little useful information posted? |
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No current minutes? No current audits? No budgets? Thousands of our condo fees used to create and “maintain” this fan club website? |
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Where is the transparency the current board long ago promised? |
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When are the board meetings? Are they held in secret? Is proper notice given for each board meeting as the law requires? |
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Dilapidated property. Is there graffiti in your stairwell? Litter all over the property? Dangerous playgrounds with trash, condoms, needles and damaged and dangerous play equipment? |
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Trash dumpsters infested with rodents and looking like the county dump? Chemicals left out for our children to see and get poisoned? |
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Dead trees and overgrown vegetation on the property? “Flowers” planted? Where? |
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Where are the promised FHA and VA financing certifications? |
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Daniel Chambers is getting paid by Shadowood, thousands of your condo fee dollars, as a self serving “consultant”? |
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The wife of one of the board members is an SCA staff member? |
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The board are getting their telephone service and computers paid for by Shadowood? Using our condo fees? |
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Increasing condo fees (but terrible maintenance) without any warning or notice? Doesn’t the law require open discussion about condo fees and require advance notice? |
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Board meetings on Christmas Eve? |
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The staff getting paid big bonuses for giving out the parking decals? Parking decals that were not issued on time by the board’s own rules and regulations? |
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Elimination of the $38 Comcast cable and internet bargain we previously enjoyed? Are you now paying $125 or more for less service? Do you have to pay for all of your Comcast boxes now? |
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Unenforced rules? Packs of unsupervised kids running around the property at all hours of the day and night? Damaging your cars and other property? Stealing? Smoking and drinking? Isn’t Shadowood a smoke free property as the website boast? |
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A murder at Shadowood this summer! See: http://on.wusa9.com/1JRI3cb (Editor’s note: There was a shooting death but it was later determined to have been from a fight among acquaintances and not a home invasion). |
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Stairwell tiles that are faded and pulling up? Rusty stairwell members? Are they even safe? Broken notice boards and mailboxes? |
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Special parking privileges for the board and their families? |
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Board meeting minutes not released for over a year? |
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Raising the condo fee and bundling all the utilities together? Our condo fees are outrageous at nearly $500 a month while property values decline. |
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The board of directors suing a former board member and defunct management company and dropping that lawsuit? After spending tens (or hundreds) of thousands of our condo fees on that lawsuit? |
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The board of directors settling a lawsuit against a former board member and paying the board member $12,000 of our condo fees? |
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Is the board of directors improperly spending our condo fees to endorse the current president and treasurer? |
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Is the current board president misusing association resources to solicit proxies and sending defamatory messages on association letterhead? |
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Has Fairfax County Housing, owner of more Shadowood units than anyone else, delivered on its promises to assist the association and provide counsel and guidance? |
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Are your property values dropping, while your condo fee skyrockets? Did a recent unit sell for $180K or less when the board is boasting that units are “market valued” at $200k and more? |
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Does our community have a nickname of “Shadowslum”? “Shadodump”? |
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Does our community have a drug problem? |
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Has the current board worked with the police to address crime, drugs and the out-of-control thugs? |
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These are just a few of our concerns. If you have others, please reply to this email with your concerns. We will take them to the board and the Common Interest Community Ombudsman and Reston Association for action if appropriate or we will assist you in doing them. |