Take A Look Around!!!!

Todays challenge involves taking a walk around the complex and taking a good look at your surroundings. We want to invite you today to involve your senses on your next nature walk. We are, of course, always experiencing the world with our senses but taking the time to be mindful of what we are seeing, hearing, smelling and feeling brings the process to the forefront and makes it meaningful. We want to encourage you to take the time to really look at the world around you.  Walk slowly.  Your purpose is the journey and not a destination......

Unfortunately, we tried and what we see is a complex in need of some serious lawn service....We're not sure what exactly is included in our Lawn Maintenance contract but we know one thing for sure, it isn't Lawn Maintenance!!!! The edging around the trees is all torn up and damaged, the edging near the buildings is a mess, several reports say the bench by the pond is damaged......etc.  If you're up for a real adventure walk behind buildings 3,5,7 & 9....but before you do, take precautions and bring a sickle so you don't come up missing. (Oh!! Wait!! Maybe that's what happened...story for another day)

Here’s the thing: Starting a lawn- and landscape-maintenance service — a business that can do as little as mow the grass or as much as fertilize and prune shrubs and trees — requires little more than a mower and business license. There is almost no required training. So how can consumers feel confident that the person turning their lawn green knows his or her stuff? You don't know, until you try, and this experiment has failed. We should revisit our lawn service company when this contract expires and find a company that cares as much about our home as we do. Let's be honest though, that'll never happen, it's too green on the other side....wink, wink!!!!! 

STEALING MY HOA DUES

Theft is not just walking off with an item that you do not own, it is also theft of time.  Our HOA dues pay for salaries and when someone is not putting in their full value of work on our dime, then they are stealing from the owners.

I walked over to the property manager’s office, during regular business hours. I don’t knock on the door, hell I am not walking in to my boss’s office; I am walking into my employee’s office. Lo and behold the friggen door was locked! What the Hell? Locked during normal business hours when she is in there. What is going on? That is OUR office. We pay for it and the door should never be locked when someone is in there.

I don’t care if I am told that she can’t get work done when everyone comes to the door and she locks it, they are there to assist owners with their needs. Why is it we hired two part time people instead of one hard working full time property manager? Well, we all know the reason.

When the door is locked, we as owners have no idea why is going on in that room. Personal calls, yes I have walked in on those. Perhaps a nap, after all they get tired from all of those interruptions.

When we don’t get what we paid for in the form of a Property Manager, and it is allowed to go on, then that is theft of my HOA dues. 

In our next article we will address the head of maintenance spending most of his time in the Property Manager’s office (AKA the Owners Office).

Todays Thought of the Day

Conversations with your friends can sometimes get emotional. Even if your intentions are good, you might be in danger of hurting someone’s feelings. The best way to be sensitive to other people’s feelings is to listen carefully to what they have to say, and to speak kindly. It’s important to learn ways to take care of your own feelings as well.

Island Cove Crime Watch

I'm sure many of you have seen all of the police presence in and around the Island Cove complex and for those of you who never walk the grounds, Carol Miles, it has been quite the alarming experience. According to police reports there is a gentleman missing from building 4.....James Richard Marshall, 58, of Cape Coral, has been missing since he failed to show up for a conference in California. Police said Marshall is not answering calls, texts, or emails, which they said is not normal for him. Hopefully and GOD willing (we can say GOD on this blog, basically because it's ours and we don't care what the fffffff you think) he is found safe and healthy. If you have any information on the location of James Richard Marshall, please contact the Cape Coral Police Department at 239-574-3223. 

Can It Be True!!!!

After some thoughtful deliberation and discussions with some of the finest minds in Southwest Florida we have decided to bring back the blog!!!!! Prepare to be amazed!!