Painting season is upon us again, and this year we are painting the single story units starting at 31 – 45 West Townhouse Lane and continuing on the South side of the double drive (West Mountain Creek Drive) all the way to Belt Line Road. This will include 2 thru 84 West Mountain Creek Drive (even numbers only).
As usual, we will pressure wash the buildings and do necessary repairs prior to painting.
Sometime over the weekend, the City returned and packed in more dirt into the street and removed the barricades. The street is fully passable now The Director of Public Works emailed me and said that they will be back out in the next few weeks to do a permanent repair of the street.
Here is what it looks like now:
For the past week or so, we have had sewer pumper trucks cleaning out the main lines on both sides of the property. Usually, they are TRA (Trinity River Authority) trucks, but the last few trucks are from a company called AIMS. The one shown below is on East Mountain Creek Court and Warrior Trail. Not sure how long they will be working on the East side.
We still have residents flushing wet wipes, even though we have notified residents not to flush them in the Information Notices we put out several times a year. The City also does not like wipes being flushed because it plugs up the filters at the treatment plant.
We have had several sewer blockages this month caused by people flushing wet wipes and we will bill you for removing them, especially after asking residents not to flush them.
It is that time again, where homeowners need to submit the Declaration Page of your insurance renewal for 2020. This is required by the Declaration (CC&R), section 5.2, which requires “cost-to-replace” insurance on your property.
Owners and/or your insurance agent can email or fax these to the Office. Email address is office@gpmcha.org, and our fax number is 972-692-7714
Terry will be coming back to work next week, but only 1/2 days until her doctor releases her for full time.
Starting Monday, January 6th, the Office hours will be Monday thru Friday from 8 AM to Noon until further notice.
We have been having issues with residents, both owners and renters, parking vehicles in the Visitor Lots without the required Visitor Parking Permits displayed on the vehicle.
All visitor lots are clearly marked with signage that says:
In many cases, what people tend to concentrate on these signs is the “48 Hour Limit” part, thinking that phrase gives them 48 hours within which to park a resident vehicle in a visitor lot. That is not the case, however. It says that Visitors can park in the visitor lot for a period of time no longer than 48 hours.
The next part of the sign details the consequences for violating the top part of the sign, towing at your expense. In the past month or so,we have towed about 6 or 7 resident vehicles parked in the visitor lots. These signs and the verbiage upon them are not new; the signs and these rules have been here for about 40-45 years.
We do understand that sometimes it is necessary to utilize the visitor lot when getting work done on you property or if you have company over and they need to park closer to the house due to disabilities. We have notified folks in the Information notices we send out twice a year that if you need to park a vehicle in the visitor lot for a short period, you need to call the Office and let us know.
So, please keep this in mind and if you do need to park a vehicle in the visitor lot, call the Office. If the Office is closed, leave us a message or use the Contact Us button in the menu. I check that email address several times daily.
We are posting this because previous individual posts regarding these items have gone unseen or are being disregarded.
As required by our Governing Documents, we mailed our 2020 Budget before Thanksgiving, which is 30+ days before the end of our Fiscal year. We have had several calls from homeowners asking what the dues are for 2020, so I am wondering who did not get their Budget letters.
We mailed out around 400 of them and it seems last year many of them never showed up at the addressee. We are getting some back now as not deliverable. That is why we insist on having current contact info for all Homeowners.
So, the assessment/dues for 2020 are:
Without a Guard light = $ 187.00 per month
With a Guard light = $ 177.00 per month
There is some confusion on what constitutes a Guard Light in order to get the discount, so here is what we mean:
Guard lights, as seen above, are mounted on the gables on end houses or on a pole and uses electricity from your property,
It does not include motion sensing lights under the carport or the back yard.