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.
We will be doing repairs on the 2″ water meter located near E. Mountain Creel Court and Warrior Trail. Water will be shut off at 9 AM on Wednesday morning
The properties impacted by this repair are 58 to 92 East Mountain Creek Court. We will have the water back on as soon as possible.
On Friday morning, we found 2 bags near West Creek Lane, and one of them contained drug paraphernalia. We did turn these bags over to the Police.
We are posting this because these bags were found within 20-30 feet of where kids wait for the school bus to pick them up and some child might have explored these bags and gotten poked by the syringe in it.
Please advise your kids about finding strange items on property. We have had uncapped syringes found on common property on the West side his year. If your kids do find something suspicious, advise them to leave it alone and call the Police.
We have had 2 break-ins on the West side that we know of during the week. Both of them were at the same house which is unusual, on Monday and again on Wednesday; both times they entered through the bedroom window under the carport, and it was repaired on Tuesday. This same property was broken into before a month or so ago and the owner lost a large sum of cash; perhaps they were hoping the owner left more cash laying around.
Someone had to see these folks skulking around or hear them. I imagine there have been other incidents which we have no heard about, such as attempted home and car burglaries. This time of year, the miscreants are hoping for presents and money, and the unattended package on the front porch.
Let’s all keep an eye on our surroundings and people that look out of place. There are a lot of random people walking around that do not live here, and at least 2 people living in the woods on the West side and they may think of this area as an easy target. Please report suspicious people or vehicles to the Police. I have asked for additional patrols through here.
If you see someone that looks out of place or looking around to see if anyone is watching them, please call the Police.
Terry will be having neck surgery on Thursday and will be out for 4 to 6 weeks for recovery. During this time, we will have someone in temporarily to answer the phone, take messages and fill out work orders.
Beginning December 9th, the Office will be open from 9 AM to 3 PM on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
We may have to change this schedule based on how things go over the next few weeks, and how long the temp people can work.
The temporary office people will have limited knowledge of the HOA rules, etc., so please be kind to them.
We are lucky to have Terry as she is very familiar with our owners and renters after being here for almost 6 years. I will be doing the AP/AR work and taking care of the accounting software, and other office things.
We wish Terry a speedy recovery.