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Andrews: Reader offers solution on condo definition in Sun City

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My wife read my Independent article (“Reasons for one person running boards,” Sun City Independent, July 14, 2021) and noted that I complained but offered no remedy for the problem.

Even in the article I stated that “some association people love to complain but not to serve on the board.” My wife noted that I was doing the same thing. She was right. Let me now offer a solution.

Can one really expect a small association to be able to follow the same rules as a large one? Mr. Walczak, Condo Owners Association of Sun City board president, even noted there was a 4-person association in Sun City. That means that three of those four condo owners would have to serve on the board at any one time.

I suggest that smaller associations, say less than 30 unit owners, be allowed to have a condo chairman and not a board of management.

Allow associations to vote to change their governing documents to allow a single member to run the show.

I believe that a condo chairman for small associations is a reasonable and realistic approach to solving this problem.

In a recent newsletter the Condo Owners Association stated that in fact we live in condos not in planned unit developments (as alleged by a local Realtor).

As I understand it the main difference between condos and PUDs is land ownership. In a PUD you own the land your unit and back patio sits on; in a condo you own no land.

What if the old sewer line under your unit needs to be repaired? These repairs can cost well more than $10,000. If Sun City units are in fact condos then I believe the association is responsible for those repairs and appropriate insurance coverage should be provided (unless association reserves are sufficient to cover those repair costs).