🕶️ A message to the fragile, the willfully blind, and the financially illiterate.
⚖️ Law 101 for the Conveniently Forgetful
You don’t have to like me.
This isn’t a tea party, and I’m not here to make you comfortable.
I’m here because someone in this building needs to understand the law – not the bedtime-story version told by people who’ve never opened the Condominium Act, but the real one.
📜 The one that says notice is required before litigation.
📜 The one that says directors must act honestly and in good faith.
📜 The one that says reserve funds are not piggy banks for poor planning.
If that offends you, maybe the problem isn’t my tone – maybe it’s your ignorance.
💰 Finances: The Brackets Don’t Lie
I understand finances – painfully well.
I can tell the difference between money you have and money you wish you had.
When the balance sheet shows brackets, it’s not “temporarily negative.”
It’s overdraft.
When the board “borrows” from the reserve to cover “operating shortfalls,” that’s not “cash-flow timing.”
That’s creative accounting for incompetence.
💸 You can’t spend honesty like currency, and you can’t audit your way out of a lie.
📘 Governing Documents: The Ones You Pretend Don’t Exist
I know our governing documents.
I’ve read them cover to cover – not skimmed them during a coffee break or quoted them selectively at townhalls.
🧾 The President is supposed to chair meetings – not the property manager in cosplay as Speaker of the House.
🧾 The board can’t run litigation without notice.
🧾 And owners have the right to speak – even when their words make the fragile uncomfortable.
When someone misquotes the Act to silence dissent, I don’t nod politely.
I pull the book out and read it aloud.
That’s not arrogance.
That’s literacy.
🧠 Competence Isn’t Arrogance
You don’t have to like me.
You can roll your eyes, whisper in hallways, or call me “too intense.”
But let’s be honest – the discomfort you feel isn’t about me.
It’s about being confronted by someone who knows what she’s talking about.
🎯 I’ve done the homework.
🎯 I’ve read the cases.
🎯 I can trace every lie back to a ledger or a by-law.
So don’t mistake knowledge for aggression.
The truth just sounds loud when you’ve lived in silence too long.
🔥 Hate Me, But Learn Something
You can hate my tone.
You can resent that I expose your ignorance.
But facts don’t bend to feelings, and competence doesn’t need permission to exist.
I don’t crave your approval – I demand your accountability.
You don’t have to stand beside me.
But you might want to start standing for something.
Because I’m not the enemy of this community.
I’m its memory.
Its conscience.
And whether you like it or not – its wake-up call.
🕯️ Final Note
So don’t like me.
Keep your gossip, your sideways glances, your fragile egos.
But when the next special assessment hits your mailbox, remember this post – and remember who warned you.
💬 Don’t like me. Just learn from me – before the next “cash-flow timing issue” teaches you the same lesson, with interest.
📰 From the Facts Section – because denial isn’t a financial plan.
