But sometimes this is just someone's business. Money-making business.
This is true in our ongoing issues with ProFriends' real estate project, Lancaster New City (aka Lancaster Estates), more specifically in Lancaster Residences. Issues like the legality of the existing HOA being enforced by ProFriends despite the protest of the majority of homeowners in Lancaster Residences, exorbitant HOA dues being collected, lack of transparency on policy making by the developer's village administration (and the lack of balls thereof), substandard construction of housing units and undelivered promises, and so on and so forth.
Most of the homeowners, I believe, are just trying to get by, to get on with their lives. They will just go with the flow and silently look at the atrocities being committed in their own community. Though understandable, it does not help in achieving the change that must happen in order for things to start getting better. Soon, the village administration will again ask the homeowners to nominate their block representatives, a token position being given to homeowners so it would seem that they are being empowered in the HOA. But as it turns out, being a block representative does not have any bearing in policy making: they are just instruments of misrepresentation in order to lull the homeowners into a false security. Block representatives do not have a say in what the developer/HOA implements; they can raise issues and suggests, but the developer/HOA can easily disregard them.
Luckily, a small group of homeowners have already started actions to get things right, to bring the reigns to the rightful hands. Hopefully, in time, the cause will win.
In the mean time, we hope the homeowners themselves make their voices heard. Do not feed the giant's ego by making it feel unopposed. Do not participate in the so-called elections.
Image from an advocate blog: http://lancasterresidences.blogspot.com/2013/10/ang-kapahamakan-ng-eleksyon-sa-ating.html
