Q: Ms Holland, as always, I want to thank you for your weekly column in the R-J, and your insight into homeowners associations.

I am on the board of a 306-unit condo association. Our board is active, and we take pride in our work to better our HOA.

Like others, homeowner participation is next to nothing. We’re lucky if we get 10 people at a meeting. Last election, we had 30 ballots returned.

The board recently discovered that a unit has a doggie door through the exterior wall of the unit (we discovered it because the unit is for sale, and had pictures on the listing).

We notified our management company and asked for a violation to be issued for breaching the HOA owned exterior wall, and were called “creepy” by the management company owner for monitoring units that are for sale. Our bac

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