The Con – Hiding in Plain Sight

Did you see it? It’s right there. Right under your nose. So close you can smell something is wrong.

It started decades ago. No one saw it. Hidden under double-talk. Obscured with diversions and coverups. It was allowed to grow like so many false truths told to our community, by the previous property management. This unseen thing that was used to eat away at our community, as just one big bank account, nibbling away at our wallets. If it was questioned by owners, a devious story was the answer. A story designed to deceive, misdirect and cloak the truth in darkness. A darkness created to drain the community of it’s unity; it’s sense of neighborhood; it’s peaceful tranquility of homeownership. But, mostly a darkness to conceal the theft and dishonesty that stole money from our community every month of every year.

It was revealed in January of 2016, by Mary Ann Butler Hayes and attorney Stephen Kotzas, during an open and public meeting; —We have all been scammed by deception and cheated out of money-–

With homeowners expressing high hopes, and relief, of finally being rid of Metro Associates, the former property management, it seems that hope is once again being encircled by the darkness of deception. The recent introduction to Pinnacle Property Management, as what was expected to be a welcomed sigh of relief, may be just another pawn is the lying game. With the convenience of online payments and apparent ease of requesting maintenance repairs, though sometimes questionable responses, Pinnacle would seem to be the latest device to spread deceptive and misleading information.

If the fraudulent amendments and resolutions, done by Closed Door Voting by the board, wasn’t bad enough, most probably missed the deception of the Master Deed shared with the community. Or is it? The Master Deed presented by Pinnacle is grossly missing a major part of the complete document. It conveniently stops at a point that appears to continue the deception of Metro Associates, their attorney and the current board of directors.

It’s the final page. The schedule of the “Percentage Interest” that is a part of each and every condo unit. But, the schedule given so freely, by Pinnacle, is not the complete schedule. It’s a schedule recorded more than a decade before the Twin-lakes area was even built. The “Schedule of Percentages” was re-written to include the Twin-lakes area with a third set of values. The previous schedule listed the apartments and the real townhouses only. In 1984, the new schedule listed the “Twin-lakes” “villas” “apartments” to be called townhomes to be charged the same maintenance fees as the apartments. The schedule promoted by Pinnacle is conveniently missing the Twin-lakes homes.

And the deception is simple. The out dated schedule of Percentages, lists “apartments” and “townhomes” as the only description. So is set to promote the same lie of “there it is in black and white”. Apartments pay 0.261% and Townhomes pay 0.325%. But what about the Twin-lakes area. What about the responsibility of the homeowners to pay their fair share? The updated schedule of 1984, states, per list by building numbers, the Twin-lakes areas condos are to pay the exact same amount as the apartment units.

So this raises the age old question, “Is the Twin-lake homeowners being targeted by the board and association?”. And is Pinnacle a pawn or cohort in the deception. And is this a blatant sign of continued deception to cover up illegal activity by the board and the attorney and the former property management?