Failure to be transparent means something crooked is happening. HOA's are supposed to be there to service the homeowners but most HOA act like a dictatorship.

God bless all these people questioning these HOA. Let the criminality finally be exposed. Thank you 😌🙏🏽⚖️🌟🕊️

HOAs are a nightmare as usual.

Once you uncover evidence that a board member is stealing it's time to take it to the attorney general or law enforcement.

HOA should NOT exist!! Bogus and unnecessary fees are a norm of HOA!

Investigate all the HOA’s , especially one’s with the highest HOA and $20k assessments 🙄 ridiculous!

HOAs are given way too much power under the law

He reimbursed himself and took a tax reduction too I’m sure because he is dis honest.

Yes all HOAs need to be investigated and regulated to maintenance only! And have rules to don't allow hoa to take your property through fines and fees! It just sounds like a money/property steal scheme!

Main takeaway here is don't live in an HOA.

The HOA's accounting practices don't make sense, if this report is accurate. Petty Cash is not an expense category. It's a Current Asset. For every time there is money taken out of Petty Cash (Credit to the Asset, thus reducing it), there should be an offsetting Debit to a defined expense category, increasing the total expenses to that category for the fiscal year. It should literally require nothing more than clicking on a button to execute an existing report query to produce a statement of revenues and expenses for any homeowner who requests one. I was the Business Intelligence Lead for a large state university in the Midwest. Our finances were 100 times more complex than any HOA. But we never, ever, said no to any student who requested financial information. They were the reason we existed, and we worked for them. The homeowners are the reason the HOA exists, and the Board works for the homeowners.

For those that don't know, petty cash is typically for small expenditures where going through the process of requesting a check, invoicing and entering it into the books at the time is inconvenient. This is stuff that doesn't have much of a material impact on the finances and as long as it does eventually get entered into the financials it's not much of an issue. For example, if you're needing to buy a few stamps for official business. You'd buy the stamps with money from the petty cash and then put the change and the receipt back. Periodically the petty cash gets refilled and balanced against the receipts. $20,000 in one year is a lot, because most of those expenses would typically be paid via check or card and entered into the books at that time. It could be just an effort to avoid being bothered while working, but it is rather odd.

Hoa's are out of control... sometimes there's a need for an hoa but the monthly costs of some of those are insane.... especially in housing communities where hoa's only cover some lawn care, maybe plowing and street maintenance.

Darcy spears is no joke she should run for office even run for governor she will excellent honest politician

When it looks that bad and you simply keep your secrets and try besmirching those who ask questions, you're probably guilty of something

"How dare you bother me, Im busy blowing all this cash! Its alotta work." lol oh sad tho

I think they call it petty cash so when people ask about where that 💰 is going, they call you petty. 😊

I remember when I was an HOA board member, and I questioned some of the expenditures… the HOA president had me shunned by the entire community.

The history of embezzlement in HOAs around the country is comparable to an untrained house dog that claims the entire house available for relieving itself. The available bank account with no overseer on the board is a similar condition.

Darcy should bring back dirty diner.

Why isn’t the district attorney investigating this?

The brass sign tells you pretty much all you need to know. Good thumbnail.

This is what happens when people don't get involved in there government, HOA etc on a regular basis

I do find it odd that public entities seem to stonewall any questions about the issues they face. Nevada government, school districts, commissioners..seem to feel offended if anyone asks a question..

Embezzlement

The people in HOAs are all the same. Talking about how outside of their community is like Mad Max. Complete and total anarchy in the streets. No law enforcement, dogs running at large, unmowed lawns, car repairs. It is so scary driving to the coffee shop through these places...

I live in a development with an HOA. My wife was a board member 25 years ago. The HOA is still operating as it was set up 45 years ago. Sorry you had a bad board.

Fairly easy to resolve. Just get on the HOA board and go through all the expenses

HOA also does not conduct criminal background che k on people sitting on their HOA board.

Avoid anything that has a swirl

Crooks…..

Government, including state & federal, such as IRS, have a procedure to ascertain whether entities, such as HOA's meet their responsibilities & adhere to codes, rules and regulations. These include HOAs qualify as non-profit entities; that they comply w/all rules & regulations, including incidental Federal rules & regulations, such as periodic tax and reporting as with information reports such as 1099's when they pay or reimbursement persons ... Did the president report the amounts required to be reported on those 1099's, even if he didn't receive 1099s? -- Example of codes, rules & regulations failures to adhere to codes, rules & regulations: When my HOA accepted stimulus funds to build facilities... swimming pool & whirlpool--one requirement was that the facilities were open to the public. But, they never were. When an entity runs afoul of its members or the government, there are consequences. -- Entities, notoriously, run afoul of government rules & regulations, seemingly w/ until they are caught; individuals outed on news programs like this and/or prosecuted and the consequences hit them in the purse string.

Are HOAs another layer of local government?

God help this good man.

And just like that, Jerry Shaner is world famous for being a douche. Forever. lol

My town government is strictly controlled by State law. No money can be spent unless authorized at the annual Town Meeting, and all expenditures are reviewed periodically by an elected budget committee and by the elected Board of Selectmen. Like all town documents, the annual audit by a professional firm is readily available. Meetings of all town boards and their subcommittees are open to the public, and detailed minutes are taken and posted for the public. HOAs lack these controls. They function like a petty government, but there are few laws that are enforced to regulate them. They can hold secret meetings, their officials can expend association funds at will, their documents and reports are not readily accessible, and their enforcement of rules can be arbitrary and far-reaching. While an HOA can perform valuable services, they frequently run out of control, and there is no established means to stop them. I would not live in an HOA community.

The name of the board member spending the petty cash wasn't Tiffany Heynyard by any chance?

Where is Joe?

Who is this woman and where's the guy who does hall of shame?

zi den ama clones

It's ironic that the people complaining about HOA's are the very people HOA's were created for in the first place. Slobs!

Jesus LOVES You.

Don't buy any property with HOA if you can.

It's time for an all new season of Dirty Dining