HOA President Slaps Groundskeeper at Hearing, Then the Carbon Copy Names His Own Lot
"Repeat offender — third notice," the board president said, right after his palm cracked across Marcus Bell's cheek in a room of folding chairs.
Marcus is the groundskeeper on Lot 214. He can lose the job that pays his mother's apartment, and the board has already billed his address $3,000 for a fence he never built.
Dane Whitcroft holds the CC&R binder and the room. He points with his pen, calls Marcus "the reason values drop on this street," and the chairs laugh. Nobody asks about the sheet the management clerk "missed."
Marcus only says: "Show me the third visit." Whitcroft answers with his job.
Then Marcus pulls a folded carbon from his coveralls and holds it at chest height. The row is his own street address. CC&R 4.2 — Setback. Dated that same morning. His initials at the end of the line, in blue ballpoint.
Whitcroft sets the binder down. It slides off the folding table.
Want the tow slip, the county date and the chair that sat empty the following Tuesday? The full story is on the blog — read it at the link below.
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