A time ago a friend suggested a dog park.. She tried very hard to get someone to listen..I myself went to a designer and artist in town. I asked and at my cost to come up with a plan that would be would be appealing and blend in with our Village. I thought the plan was awesome and many did. But not the right people... All efforts fell on deaf ears.
My husband and travel across this great country and many places we visit accommodate our furry friends. We now look for parks that care about us and our pups.
I support an area here at home for such a purpose. Perhaps the property across from the guardhouse on the other side of the street. Although many disagreed on the project a time ago.. and obviously the idea was a wash. I didn't believe it was a waste of time and effort.
This is a different time and once again we will ask..Can we please set aside a place here in the Village for our furry children?
Furry Childern? Wow,Dredging, roads in disrepair and now costly sewer repairs looming and you want what? Do the words never neverland mean anything? My pal is also an owner here and a retired shrink, he has told me for years that many owners here came because their childern didn't want anything to do with them as they are such sad cases. Your article proves his point!!!
Mr. sad case, I don’t agree with you or your shrink pal saying that many people here are sad cases. Trudy is a very wonderful person that you obviously have never met. Trudy has a right to voice her opinion without, and I repeat without demonizing her. RP, CD,and PB do enough of that. However with our park recently telling us we have a minus operating capital of $232,000 for 2012, I agree that we should not start any new endeavors.
Nothing expressed in the meeting saying dog owners wanted to pay for this. Even if that happened there’s no way to enforce it. Remember the last time owners promised to support something. The Village provided a designated area for a rental office, the requirement posted in the Declaration of Covenants and bylaws said that all renters will have to support this and guess what; only about 10% do today. Because of that all Village owners have been losing over thirty grand a year. One other thing, your designated area would have to be somewhere where nobody lives close to and that’s nowhere in this park. Oh my Miss 3:01pm, this would not only be a costly adventure, but a divisive one as well.
not only is the rental office in the RED but the present VICE PRESIDENT is in the rental business in direct conflict with the very bylaws he is obligated to uphold on our behalf
We need to look past the former and current members of the board as they are mostly the same. Stop the blame game. We need board members with no self interest unlike Director and Mrs McRental service, and I voted for him. We need to do away with the grill which has failed and will continue to do so. Same with the Rental office that is a joke.
Look at the mess our Gov't is in by trying to provide services we can't afford, LIV is the same.
Water meters must be installed.
The Board and Manager and Board member who rent turn a blind eye to the number of people in each lot or unit in violation of our rules. This overloads our little park and is causing much of the problem.
This large number of people costs us plenty in water, sewer, security, pools, ect, but aparently no one cares.
Thats what needs to be done, if we can get the board to muster the guts to do it.
I understand why Director and Mrs McRental and Mr Director golf cart rental service can't offend their clients or future clients and make the hard choises that need to be made.
I agree with "get out of your bubble". No one objected when the former Pres. of our BOD, Mr. Halbach & his former wife, managed several rental units in this village. Why, all of a sudden, are you upset about Mrs. McRental. It seems to me that competition is a good thing. Maybe it's time for our Mgr. & the LIV rental pool to figure out what they are doing wrong, what she is doing right, & step up to the plate.
The issue here, how I see it, is NOT that someone is taking care of rentals while Aramark cannot, the issue is that the Director and Mrs. McRental are in a position on the Board to make decisions to support their business, which may not be the best thing for LIV. Last summer they refused to do anything which might impede their summer renters to have free reign on our Village. This is NOT right. This Director has a conflict of interest. Close his business or resign.
This is similar to the Director whose husband was a contractor. Remember that fiasco a few years ago? She is no longer on the Board and they don't live in LIV anymore.
First of all it is hard enough to get good people like a McBride to even run for the board. Where were you when we had people on the board that only ran because they had an agenda to fulfill? You know like non-owner Pat Burke who if couldn’t be president quit and left the Village high and dry or Tom Bergsma who quit when he couldn’t get the board to approve his dredging and window enclosure for his deck. During a director’s tenure it’s near impossible not to have some kind of personal or professional interest towards an issue at some point and the proper way that it’s been address before is for a director to abstain from voting on any conflict of interest issue.
How quickly we forget the truly "naughty" people who had previously been on the BOD and got us into a lot of these problems. Have you forgotten Pat Burke, Don Halbach, Don Pelletier et al and how they did all they could to keep Larry D as manager??? Problems started back then are still being cleaned up. No this BOD isn't perfect, but it is a lot better than what we once had. Close the grill, close the rental office and that should help to stop some of the red ink.
I have not forgoton the 'naughty " people" but I also was there to hear the Mcrentals and director Patty gripe ad nauseum about Tres Stephanson and how they were going to open up the books to the owners and we would have no more secrets. DID NOT HAPPEN!!!! Well lets get a pledge that the three candidates will open up our books to owners and pledge to disclose any business that they do in conflict with our Village as long as their directors. Rumor has it that a current director who is running for re-election is improperly renting a lot of his.
Disclosure is the ethical answer to keeping our board honest. Only the names change most start out wanting to do the right thing.
We are in aggrement about the Grill, Rental office, add water meters and get rid of the Ice machine. Also we need to stop the flood of Rentals sneaking in extra people flooding our Village and draining our services.
WE CAN'T AFFORD IT ANYMORE. THE PEOPLE RENTING HOUSES IN LIV MUST GET TOUGH WITH RENTERS OR WE'RE ALL SCREWED!!!
No one will buy here if they see the out of control zoo in the summer.
I also agree close the rental office whatever that means..
How many people do we let go? Cleaning people , repair services. How much do we save?
Does the office still check guest in?
Would a fee be paid to the office from someone who has a rental business.
If someone calls the office and wants a rental.. only because they have seen an ad on the Internet describing our beautiful place .. What is the office's responds?
And wanting the restaurant closed... It would break hearts of those who have seen it there for years and be at a disadvantage to the few who use it.
What about about CHICKEN NIGHT?
Perhaps we can have a FINANCE COMMITTEE. Volunteers who but on the functions. They would run the kitchen. And events only when needed.
They also would be in charge of the monies. And report to the secretary.
Change is not an easy thing. Especially to those things that make us happy.
First lets agree that LIV is not able to run a viable rental office, the past has proven that. I won't blame any one person but by the very nature of what is can't and has not worked . We need to allow the free market private rental agents rent for a fee. That way we all don't have to pay for the renting of someones elses property. In theory LIV would rent and the property owner would pay and cover the expenses but that has not happened in years. Lets blame no one and close the rental office. We have an internet web site and the private rental agents would pay tp list rentals on out site. The Restaurant is the same story. Blame no one and close it. As far as "disadvantaging the FEW that use it" I think you answered that. I like the grill. I like the concept of a rental office as well as other things at LIV however the fact remains that by not running LIV like a business we are scaring off renters and buyers.
And we need to install water meters and control the large groups in the summer if you want to make this LIV of ours viable again.
You guys keep saying to install water meters, why? Think about it, we are paying for the water in our condo fees, we get a meter and then we will start paying for individual services that have minimums charges somewhere around $35. all of a sudden owners are paying a $95 bill on top of their condo fee. I don't know of any owner who wants to raise their condo fee by $95. Meters are a bad idea.
Right, why should people pay for something they use when they can let their neighbors pay for it. The condo fee money is needed for common property(roads anyone) and a reserve fund.
Thought the license being required for rentals was wrong, but after contacting The Texas Real Estate Board I received an e-mail that confirmed it is:
Individuals renting homes without a license are in violation of the following laws. You may report known offense to this office for forwarding to proper authorities. While your identity is preferred for followup questions it isn't mandatory. As far as your association B of D being responsible for reporting, it is a misdemeanor for any individual having knowledge of a crime not to report same. Civil penalties could apply to an association that allows such an activity. Should you wish to report a violation please contact our office. The following is the applicable statue:
Practicing real estate without an active license is a criminal offense, specifically, a Class A misdemeanor punishable by confinement of up to one year in a county jail and a fine of up to $4,000.00. [TRELA §1101.756] TREC can also pursue administrative penalties not to exceed $5,000 for each violation. Each day a violation continues can be considered a separate violation for imposition of the administrative penalties. [§1101.702 of the License Act] The Commission may also issue a “cease and desist” order. [§1101.759 of the License Act] Finally, as a State Agency represented in civil court proceedings, TREC can obtain injunctive relief, including court costs and attorneys fees incurred in obtaining such relief. [TRELA §1101.751]
YIKES !!! I think what you are telling us is the ENTIRE BOARD is in violation of the law because they, as far back as Sullivan at least, are and were aware that the McBrides have been in violation of Texas law by taking money out of our pockets thru rentals !!
I think it is time to get the check book out and employ our investigator that Larry hated so much. The investigator from New York. To look into this matter and give us a full report. Maybe the Board will have completely forgotten the whole incident and will only be reminded that something is wrong when presented with the documentation.
That numbskull is gone. Look you two or one, why don't you put your efforts into something important like what Aramark is maybe overcharging us or how we can get the bridge off our hands instead of making something out of nothing because you have some kind of vendetta towards Ed and Jenny. Bet you are RP or PB and if so, enough said.
If the McRentals have nothing to hide they have nothing to be worried about. But on the other hand if they have 40+ lots and homes that they don't own but rent for others for a fee there are many questions like: Do they have a valid license? Is sales and occupancy tax applicable? Do they have sales and occupancy license? Since Mr. McRental does maintenance and repairs does he have a Texas trade license. I hope that the McRentals as perfect as they are just stop, before citizens of LIV start their petition drive to the State and Cameron County to look into their activies as well as the board of directors. No wonder most at LIV have no faith in our Board when it comes to having ethics!!! Much about their customers has been documented along with pic's of Mr. McRental working on his customers rental homes. Sad but true. Why is it that greedy people start out finding fault with others, then act selfless like perhaps fundraising for causes like maybe a golf course. Then run for office, then BECOME those that they ridicule and proport to hate. Just go away!
Set down PB,DP,CD,LD,RP et al. No one wants to hear from you! The BOD and people of LIV will make their wishes know regarding the McRentals. And handle things in the correct manner. Can't you guys find another place to terriorize?
Good GOD please PB,DP.CD.LD.RP.please go a way we are so sick of you 5 people. you can mess up so many lives.Please go far a way.I pray for the day that you stand befor God try and tell him how good you think you were.
32 comments:
From Trudy..
A time ago a friend suggested a dog park.. She tried very hard to get someone to listen..I myself went to a designer and artist in town. I asked and at my cost to come up with a plan that would be would be appealing and blend in with our Village. I thought the plan was awesome and many did. But not the right people... All efforts fell on deaf ears.
My husband and travel across this great country and many places we visit accommodate our furry friends.
We now look for parks that care about us and our pups.
I support an area here at home for such a purpose. Perhaps the property across from the guardhouse on the other side of the street.
Although many disagreed on the project a time ago.. and obviously the idea was a wash. I didn't believe it was a waste of time and effort.
This is a different time and once again we will ask..Can we please set aside a place here in the Village for our furry children?
Thanks
LIVE LIFE OUT LOUD
Furry Childern?
Wow,Dredging, roads in disrepair and now costly sewer repairs looming and you want what?
Do the words never neverland mean anything?
My pal is also an owner here and a retired shrink, he has told me for years that many owners here came because their childern didn't want anything to do with them as they are such sad cases. Your article proves his point!!!
Mr. sad case,
I don’t agree with you or your shrink pal saying that many people here are sad cases. Trudy is a very wonderful person that you obviously have never met. Trudy has a right to voice her opinion without, and I repeat without demonizing her. RP, CD,and PB do enough of that.
However with our park recently telling us we have a minus operating capital of $232,000 for 2012, I agree that we should not start any new endeavors.
Trudy
Thanks .."I dont agree 8:57 AM"
We where hoping the owners who have pets could flip the bill. If just given a designated area, proper requirements and approval.
I'm sure it would be welcomed by some.
From 8:47 am,
Nothing expressed in the meeting saying dog owners wanted to pay for this. Even if that happened there’s no way to enforce it. Remember the last time owners promised to support something. The Village provided a designated area for a rental office, the requirement posted in the Declaration of Covenants and bylaws said that all renters will have to support this and guess what; only about 10% do today. Because of that all Village owners have been losing over thirty grand a year.
One other thing, your designated area would have to be somewhere where nobody lives close to and that’s nowhere in this park. Oh my Miss 3:01pm, this would not only be a costly adventure, but a divisive one as well.
not only is the rental office in the RED but the present VICE PRESIDENT is in the rental business in direct conflict with the very bylaws he is obligated to uphold on our behalf
We suggested across the road from the guardhouse.
We would need willing people to help...
chainlink plastic coated fence,cement.ground cover, plants, water
spiket and disposal for waste.
I believe that land across the street from the guard house does not belong to LIV.
We need to look past the former and current members of the board as they are mostly the same.
Stop the blame game.
We need board members with no self interest unlike Director and Mrs McRental service, and I voted for him.
We need to do away with the grill which has failed and will continue to do so.
Same with the Rental office that is a joke.
Look at the mess our Gov't is in by trying to provide services we can't afford, LIV is the same.
Water meters must be installed.
The Board and Manager and Board member who rent turn a blind eye to the number of people in each lot or unit in violation of our rules. This overloads our little park and is causing much of the problem.
This large number of people costs us plenty in water, sewer, security, pools, ect, but aparently no one cares.
Thats what needs to be done, if we can get the board to muster the guts to do it.
I understand why Director and Mrs McRental and Mr Director golf cart rental service can't offend their clients or future clients and make the hard choises that need to be made.
Your making LIV just like the homes we left behind.
We all need to survive , Mrs McRental.. (funny I must say)
is not doing anything different then others are doing.
Get out of your bubble and look at the people who need the services in occupying their properties.
Maybe the office needs to be a little more competetive in pricing.
Instead of raping us.
We need to pay the dues. If units are not rented everyone suffers.
PLEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ don't look at past board membrains!!!
Thank you, Anonymous of Feb. 21st.
I agree with "get out of your bubble". No one objected when the former Pres. of our BOD, Mr. Halbach & his former wife, managed several rental units in this village. Why, all of a sudden, are you upset about Mrs. McRental. It seems to me that competition is a good thing. Maybe it's time for our Mgr. & the LIV rental pool to figure out what they are doing wrong, what she is doing right, & step up to the plate.
Lot's of people in LIV do rentals and have for years....what's this Mrs. McRental crap? Stop her....then you have to stop them all!
Re: "Lot's of people in LIV do rentals...
The issue here, how I see it, is NOT that someone is taking care of rentals while Aramark cannot, the issue is that the Director and Mrs. McRental are in a position on the Board to make decisions to support their business, which may not be the best thing for LIV. Last summer they refused to do anything which might impede their summer renters to have free reign on our Village. This is NOT right. This Director has a conflict of interest. Close his business or resign.
This is similar to the Director whose husband was a contractor. Remember that fiasco a few years ago? She is no longer on the Board and they don't live in LIV anymore.
Re: The issue here...
First of all it is hard enough to get good people like a McBride to even run for the board. Where were you when we had people on the board that only ran because they had an agenda to fulfill? You know like non-owner Pat Burke who if couldn’t be president quit and left the Village high and dry or Tom Bergsma who quit when he couldn’t get the board to approve his dredging and window enclosure for his deck.
During a director’s tenure it’s near impossible not to have some kind of personal or professional interest towards an issue at some point and the proper way that it’s been address before is for a director to abstain from voting on any conflict of interest issue.
How quickly we forget the truly "naughty" people who had previously been on the BOD and got us into a lot of these problems. Have you forgotten Pat Burke, Don Halbach, Don Pelletier et al and how they did all they could to keep Larry D as manager??? Problems started back then are still being cleaned up. No this BOD isn't perfect, but it is a lot better than what we once had. Close the grill, close the rental office and that should help to stop some of the red ink.
How Quickly
I have not forgoton the 'naughty " people" but I also was there to hear the Mcrentals and director Patty gripe ad nauseum about Tres Stephanson and how they were going to open up the books to the owners and we would have no more secrets. DID NOT HAPPEN!!!!
Well lets get a pledge that the three candidates will open up our books to owners and pledge to disclose any business that they do in conflict with our Village as long as their directors.
Rumor has it that a current director who is running for re-election is improperly renting a lot of his.
Disclosure is the ethical answer to keeping our board honest. Only the names change most start out wanting to do the right thing.
We are in aggrement about the Grill, Rental office, add water meters and get rid of the Ice machine.
Also we need to stop the flood of Rentals sneaking in extra people flooding our Village and draining our services.
WE CAN'T AFFORD IT ANYMORE. THE PEOPLE RENTING HOUSES IN LIV MUST GET TOUGH WITH RENTERS OR WE'RE ALL SCREWED!!!
No one will buy here if they see the out of control zoo in the summer.
Ok...close the grill...close the rental office...
And so explain to me exactly why we are keeping Aramark?
I also agree close the rental office whatever that means..
How many people do we let go? Cleaning people , repair services.
How much do we save?
Does the office still check guest in?
Would a fee be paid to the office from someone who has a rental business.
If someone calls the office and wants a rental.. only because they have seen an ad on the Internet describing our beautiful place .. What is the office's responds?
And wanting the restaurant closed... It would break hearts of those who have seen it there for years and be at a disadvantage to the few who use it.
What about about CHICKEN NIGHT?
Perhaps we can have a FINANCE COMMITTEE. Volunteers who but on the functions. They would run the kitchen. And events only when needed.
They also would be in charge of the monies. And report to the secretary.
Change is not an easy thing. Especially to those things that make us happy.
Dear "i Also agree",
First lets agree that LIV is not able to run a viable rental office, the past has proven that. I won't blame any one person but by the very nature of what is can't and has not worked .
We need to allow the free market private rental agents rent for a fee. That way we all don't have to pay for the renting of someones elses property. In theory LIV would rent and the property owner would pay and cover the expenses but that has not happened in years. Lets blame no one and close the rental office.
We have an internet web site and the private rental agents would pay tp list rentals on out site.
The Restaurant is the same story. Blame no one and close it.
As far as "disadvantaging the FEW that use it" I think you answered that. I like the grill. I like the concept of a rental office as well as other things at LIV however the fact remains that by not running LIV like a business we are scaring off renters and buyers.
And we need to install water meters and control the large groups in the summer if you want to make this LIV of ours viable again.
You guys keep saying to install water meters, why? Think about it, we are paying for the water in our condo fees, we get a meter and then we will start paying for individual services that have minimums charges somewhere around $35. all of a sudden owners are paying a $95 bill on top of their condo fee. I don't know of any owner who wants to raise their condo fee by $95. Meters are a bad idea.
"Meters are a bad idea"
Right, why should people pay for something they use when they can let their neighbors pay for it. The condo fee money is needed for common property(roads anyone) and a reserve fund.
Thought the license being required for rentals was wrong, but after contacting The Texas Real Estate Board I received an e-mail that confirmed it is:
Individuals renting homes without a license are in violation of the following laws. You may report known offense to this office for forwarding to proper authorities. While your identity is preferred for followup questions it isn't mandatory. As far as your association B of D being responsible for reporting, it is a misdemeanor for any individual having knowledge of a crime not to report same. Civil penalties could apply to an association that allows such an activity. Should you wish to report a violation please contact our office. The following is the applicable statue:
Practicing real estate without an active license is a criminal offense, specifically, a Class A misdemeanor punishable by confinement of up to one year in a county jail and a fine of up to $4,000.00. [TRELA §1101.756] TREC can also pursue administrative penalties not to exceed $5,000 for each violation. Each day a violation continues can be considered a separate violation for imposition of the administrative penalties.
[§1101.702 of the License Act] The Commission may also issue a “cease and desist” order. [§1101.759 of the License Act] Finally, as a State Agency represented in civil court proceedings, TREC can obtain injunctive relief, including court costs and attorneys fees incurred in obtaining such relief. [TRELA §1101.751]
YIKES !!! I think what you are telling us is the ENTIRE BOARD is in violation of the law because they, as far back as Sullivan at least, are and were aware that the McBrides have been in violation of Texas law by taking money out of our pockets thru rentals !!
I think it is time to get the check book out and employ our investigator that Larry hated so much. The investigator from New York. To look into this matter and give us a full report. Maybe the Board will have completely forgotten the whole incident and will only be reminded that something is wrong when presented with the documentation.
That numbskull is gone. Look you two or one, why don't you put your efforts into something important like what Aramark is maybe overcharging us or how we can get the bridge off our hands instead of making something out of nothing because you have some kind of vendetta towards Ed and Jenny. Bet you are RP or PB and if so, enough said.
If the McRentals have nothing to hide they have nothing to be worried about. But on the other hand if they have 40+ lots and homes that they don't own but rent for others for a fee there are many questions like:
Do they have a valid license?
Is sales and occupancy tax applicable?
Do they have sales and occupancy license?
Since Mr. McRental does maintenance and repairs does he have a Texas trade license.
I hope that the McRentals as perfect as they are just stop, before citizens of LIV start their petition drive to the State and Cameron County to look into their activies as well as the board of directors.
No wonder most at LIV have no faith in our Board when it comes to having ethics!!!
Much about their customers has been documented along with pic's of Mr. McRental working on his customers rental homes.
Sad but true.
Why is it that greedy people start out finding fault with others, then act selfless like perhaps fundraising for causes like maybe a golf course. Then run for office, then BECOME those that they ridicule and proport to hate.
Just go away!
Yes, the McRentals have performed just as RP said they would.
Re: "Yes, the McRentals....."
Set down PB,DP,CD,LD,RP et al. No one wants to hear from you! The BOD and people of LIV will make their wishes know
regarding the McRentals. And handle things in the correct manner. Can't you guys find another place to terriorize?
Re: Set down..
I agree, RP has said and done a lot of things to stir up this park. If you value what comes out of her mouth you must be CD.
Good GOD please PB,DP.CD.LD.RP.please go a way we are so sick of you 5 people. you can mess up so many lives.Please go far a way.I pray for the day that you stand befor God try and tell him how good you think you were.
Post a Comment