"THE FOUNTAIN OF INFORMATION", Tuesday, January 10, 2006 -
EDITORIAL
ATTENTION -
NORTH BUILDING ROOF VICTIMS FOR BOTH COURTYARDS - CALL
ENTERGY AT 1-800-ENTERGY AND BEG AND PLEAD WITH ENTERGY...
NOT TO TURN OFF YOUR POWER AND PULL YOUR METER UNTIL ALL
APPEALS HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTED, AS THE J.P. ELECTRICAL
INSPECTOR IS SUPPOSEDLY ATTEMPTING TO HAVE THIS DONE. ALSO
CALL THE SUPERVISOR AT J.P. ELECTRICAL INSPECTION OFFICE AT
504-736-6935 AND PLEAD WITH THEM ALSO. ASK THEM WHAT YOU
NEED TO DO TO APPEAL THE INSPECTORS DECISION. MAYBE CALMER
HEADS WILL PREVAIL AND THEY WILL COME UP WITH A REASONABLE
SOLUTION TO THIS DEBACLE... ANOTHER DEBACLE CREATED BY CHET
HINGLE'S FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE AND POOR MANAGEMENT. REMIND
THE J.P.BOARD THAT YOU ARE A VICTIM AND A VOTER!!!!!
ANALYSIS OF CHET HINGLE'S "END OF YEAR REPORT" (Copy
Available for download via BLOG link)
First of all, I would like to preface the following analysis
by saying that while Chet Hingle and the Board continue to
tell each of you that you have to follow all of the rules,
regulations, bylaws, etc., they continue to turn up their
collective noses when they violate the rules, regulations,
bylaws, etc., that do not fit their needs or wants, while
strictly enforcing those that do fit their needs or wants.
That being said, I will now do a paragraph by paragraph
constructive critique of the "End of Year Report" by
Management.
PARAGRAPH ONE -
Chet Hingle, once again, admits that he and the Board
canceled or postponed the Annual Owners Meeting which is a
direct violation of the bylaws and the laws of the State of
Louisiana. His reasons are that he wanted to wait until
"all unit owners are back on premises". First of all, that
will never happen as a certain percentage of owners have not
lived in their units for many years. Second, Annual Owners
Meetings usually have a 20-30% attendance rate and it
sometimes takes multiple meetings before enough owners have
signed proxies so that a vote can even take place, so they
should have held the Annual Owners Meeting in December,
2005, as scheduled since MOST owners were desperate for
information at a time when Chet Hingle and the Board
OUTRIGHT REFUSED to answer questions, provide information or
open the books and records to owners who were legally
entitled to that access.
PARAGRAPH TWO -
Management might get a shoulder strain while patting himself
on the back during this paragraph... BUT the fact is the
roof repairs were NOT "completed within 4 weeks"... proven
by the fact that roofers were on my roof most of today
mopping tar on the roof over my unit to try and stop the
leaks in my kitchen and bedroom which started during
hurricane Katrina and continued with each and every rain
since. Water continues to leak into the north building in
the rear courtyard due to gutters and down spouts not being
installed, leaks in the A/C roof stacks, etc. After the
previous roofing contractors, working under Fleur De Lis
Construction and Renovations, WALKED OFF OF THE JOB, because
of decisions made by Chet Hingle, even they admitted that
they had to send in a sub-contractor several weeks later to
finish the flashing work needed on the brick firewall's that
stick up above the roof level.
Granted, Chet Hingle did do a good job of hiring the roofing
contractor quickly but it was all a big SNAFU after that...
culminated by Chet Hingle cursing out the roofers and using
the "F" word numerous times during the meeting with the
roofing company which led to them walking off the job.
Fortunately, Chet Hingle realized that he still had to pay
them so there would not be a huge lien against FCC and I
have verified with my source at Fleur De Lis that they have
indeed been paid in full. My source at FDL is still trying
to find out how Chet Hingle and Fleur De Lis came to know
each other.
PARAGRAPH THREE -
The Board states that ALL have to live and abide by the
rules, regs and bylaws.... except them??? HMMMM!!!
PARAGRAPH FOUR -
Chet Hingle and the Board lay claim to a provision in the
Condo Document without stating where it says such things. I
have reviewed what I believe to be a complete copy of the
Condo Documents and I have never seen this provision. Not
to say it doesn't exist in some amended bylaws or rules but
they were not included in the copy which I reviewed. I wish
he would state the section of the Bylaws or Rules that gives
him his so-called permission to do things when he does them.
I will point out more on this in coming paragraphs.
Chet Hingle further states that, "In management's opinion,
all unit work would be 85% complete at this writing" if all
of you would have let him have his way with his secret plan
but the fact is that EVEN THE ROOF isn't completed at this
time. Further, my source at Fleur De Lis says that they
asked Chet Hingle to hold owner meetings many times when
they were first negotiating their contract, so they could
address the owners and answer any questions and concerns but
Chet Hingle REFUSED to let them hold any kind of meetings.
They were extremely disappointed in Chet Hingle for his
decision because ultimately, it cost them the contract when
most owners decided to use their own contractors... ONCE
AGAIN, BECAUSE OF CHET HINGLE'S OUTRIGHT REFUSAL TO
COMMUNICATE WITH THE OWNERS.
PARAGRAPH FIVE -
DUHHHHH!!! No kidding Chet!!!! You did not properly
communicate with the owners in the days, weeks and months
following hurricane Katrina.... and you are still misleading
and lying to them and shirking your management
responsibilities... like with the debacle that is happening
with the north buildings of each courtyard where you did not
get permits or inspections for any of the work that YOU
hired contractors for. IF YOU WOULD HAVE DONE YOUR JOB,
INSTEAD OF WORRYING ABOUT WHAT OTHERS WERE DOING, YOU WOULD
HAVE HAD THE PROPER INSPECTIONS AND PERMITS SO THAT MANY
OWNERS WOULD NOT BE HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT THEIR RENOVATIONS
BEING TORN OUT FOR RE-INSPECTION.
Even the Jefferson Parish Electrical Inspector told Chet
Hingle that he needs to go back to Property Management
School for the problems and headaches that he has caused to
these 22 owners.
PARAGRAPH SIX -
He wants to blame his poor management on my emails. Hey
Chet... I did not start "The Fountain of Information" until
nearly two months after hurricane Katrina... as a direct
result in people asking me to supply them with
information... that they were not getting from you. You
chose to ignore, walk away or curse out people who tried to
ask you questions affecting their lives.
Also, you claim that "when pertinent and accurate
information was received, you got it", which is BLATANT
LIE!!!! Further down, in your "End of Year Report", you
readily admit that the Board has now voted to give ALL of
the money to the owners that the insurance companies said
they should get. Your letter to the rear courtyard flood
victims clearly LIED TO THEM ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY THEY WERE
SUPPOSED TO GET!
PARAGRAPH SEVEN -
Chet Hingle still doesn't understand that FCCA is the unit
owners!!!! That's right Chet... 94 OWNERS make up FCCA...
not you and the Board! So the insurance money paid to FCCA
does IN FACT belong to the owners who were victims of
hurricane Katrina. The insurance companies itemized the
estimates to show how much each unit was to receive and if
you and the Board had not tried to hide hundreds of
thousands of dollars from the victims, you would not now be
admitting that you and the Board have voted to give them ALL
of their money. Chet likes to say "backed up by our
attorney" when it's in his favor. HEY CHET AND THE BOARD...
WHAT DOES YOUR ATTORNEY SAY ABOUT CANCELING THE ANNUAL
MEETING IN VIOLATION OF THE BYLAWS AND LOUISIANA LAW????
FURTHER, AT THE END OF PARAGRAPH SEVEN, CHET HINGLE ONCE
AGAIN ADMITS THAT HE AND THE BOARD WERE TRYING TO HIDE
INSURANCE MONEY FROM THE VICTIMS BECAUSE HE NOW ADMITS THAT
NOW, "... the Board decided to pay you the total amount of
what was estimated by the insurance company" HE ONCE AGAIN
ADMITS THAT THEY WEREN'T PLANNING ON PAYING YOU YOUR MONEY
IN THE BEGINNING. THE SAME THING THAT I AND OTHERS HAVE
BEEN TELLING EVERYONE FOR OVER TWO MONTHS.
PARAGRAPH EIGHT -
Once again, Chet makes invisible references to the "Condo
Document" without stating where in the document his decision
is rooted.
PARAGRAPH NINE -
About time he issues a monthly report of cash on hand. It
took him four months to type this paragraph.
PARAGRAPH TEN -
The Katrina Insurance Accounting is contained on page three
of the attached document.
PARAGRAPH ELEVEN -
While Chet has continually refused to answer questions,
provide information, walk away and ignore people and
outright curse people out.. he once again is spraining his
shoulder patting himself on the back, saying the he has
worked "24/7" for you. Further, he states that he took the
FCCA computer and records off of the premises which is
another OUTRIGHT VIOLATION OF THE BYLAWS, RULES AND
REGULATIONS.
FURTHER, HE CALLS SOME OF YOU, "SELFISH, GREEDY, MEAN AND
DISHONEST".... HE MUST HAVE BEEN LOOKING IN THE MIRROR WHEN
HE TYPED THAT!!!! Or... maybe he has multiple personalities
and does not realize it when one of his other personalities
curses someone out, lies to dozens of others, is downright
mean to some of the nicest people I have ever met and tried
to hide hundreds of thousands of dollars from the victims of
hurricane Katrina.
PARAGRAPH TWELVE -
I have read the rules and regulations and all they say is
that your door has to be painted the approved color. It
does not say that you cannot have a more decorative door...
only that the Board has to approve your door. So,
technically, the Board could in fact allow people to have
decorative doors if they choose to do so. Unfortunately,
Chet Hingle runs the current Board and they walk lock-step
with him and since Chet Hingle refuses to allow you to have
a decorative door, you have to go with the plain brown
crappy looking door instead of improving the appearance of
your condo and raising the property value by having a nicer
door. Ask any Realtor and they will tell you that the
entrance way to a home makes a dramatic impact on a
prospective buyer. If your neighbor sells their condo for a
higher price, that raises the property values for everyone.
Be careful about adding a nice shiny new brass door-knocker,
peephole, nice new brass hardware and door knobs, kickplate,
etc., as those might not be in "conformity" with Chet
Hingle's idea of how crappy your front door should look.
Oh well.. I guess Chet Hingle thinks you all live in Red
China or the former Soviet Union and you all have to have
crappy looking doors and look poor instead of approving some
nicer doors for the people that can afford it... just like
they approved nice storm doors for the people that could
afford them. I bet if you were in Chet's clique, you would
not have been threatened with not being given YOUR money.
NOW ONTO THE KATRINA INSURANCE MONEYS RECEIVED AND DISBURSED
(PAGE THREE) -
I'm not going to line item examine this document but will
just make some selected comments.
ROOF REPAIRS -
Although Chet Hingle previously told you that the roofs were
completed in "4 weeks", you will see that they have paid
roof repair bills from 9/22/05 through 11/24/05 (over two
months) and once again, roofers were finally on my roof
today... hopefully fixing the leaks into my unit for the
past 4 1/2 months.
THE FIRST BIG LIE -
I'm sure there is a typo because he states that he did not
received the $200,000.00 advance until 10/31/05 but on the
next line says he paid people 10 days earlier, on 10/21/05.
Further, on 10/21/05, he states that he paid "50% advance
payments to rear building...(rear courtyard flood victims)".
WHEN IN FACT, he and everyone else now knows that it was
only about 33% of the money the insurance company had
actually estimated each flood victim would receive. The
truth is that Chet Hingle and the Board WERE HIDING OVER ONE
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS (over $100,000.00) from the flood
victims in the rear courtyard. HE ALSO HID $36,500.00 FROM
THE REAR COURTYARD FLOOD VICTIMS ADVANCE MONEY... MONEY THAT
THEY COULD DESPERATELY USE!!!!!
FRONT COURTYARD -
Only because this writer exposed how much they had received,
Chet Hingle had to admit that they did in fact receive
$519,829.40 for the front courtyard flood victims. NOW THE
INTERESTING PART... He claims that $128,000.00 of that money
may have to be returned for units that were not damaged
which leaves approximately $390,000.00 and on the line where
he states that "50% advance payments to front
building...(front courtyard flood victims)", it only shows
$120,635.93 which is FAR LESS THAN 50% which would be
$195,000.00.
IS HE TRYING TO HIDE MONEY FROM THE FRONT COURTYARD FLOOD
VICTIMS ALSO?
I bet that further examination of the estimates would show
that Chet is not paying the extra 20% for contractor profit
and overhead that is added on to the end of the estimate
figures. I have previously published the rear courtyard
Flood Estimate which shows your itemized unit estimate and
then the insurance company adds up all of the unit estimates
and then adds on the 20% for contractor profit and overhead.
DOES CHET AND THE BOARD STILL THINK THEY ARE GOING TO GET
AWAY WITH CONFISCATING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FROM
THE VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA?????
I hope and pray that Chet and the Board will start to do the
right thing and have complete disclosure and quit trying to
hide money from people that have already been victimized by
the biggest hurricane to ever hit the gulf coast.
For you victims in the north buildings who are being further
victimized by an over-zealous Jefferson Parish bureaucracy,
please call Chet Hingle and complain to him for not having
the north buildings inspected after the roof repairs were
done. He's trying to blame it on each of you but if he
would have had provided adequate communications to everyone,
you would have known that he had not requested the
inspection. Further, I understand that James Williams
originally was telling people that they did not need their
own permits as the Condo's had a master permit which covered
everyone. Unfortunately, this was not put in writing and
James Williams is now denying that he told people this
information.
I hope and pray that each and every victim of hurricane
Katrina and all of my friends and neighbors had a very merry
Christmas and happy holiday season.
Please feel free to email me or call me with any questions
or concerns.
Until next time... let "The Fountain of Information"
flow!!!!
Lenny Vasbinder, Editor
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