Fellow Residents of Baywinds:

We are all facing several hundred thousand dollars in a roof assessment for our clubhouse and guardhouse. I have no idea how many of you have paid any attention to the fiasco that our Board has engaged in with reference to this matter. For those of you who have not been following this situation - stay asleep. For those of you who have - stay awake and consider the following: Our Board is paying a so-called roof consultant $10,000 of your money to go up on the roof and render a report on the roof. Think about that for a minute. You could go to the Mayo Clinic and be examined by the leading physician in America and your bill wouldn't come close to $10,000. You could hire a retired U.S. Supreme Court Judge to give you legal advise on some litigation and not pay $10,000. I find that figure to be extravagant and the circumstances surrounding it to be bizarre.

What is equally bizarre is the explanation that we were given at the last Board meeting concerning loose tiles. Our Board thinks that because the loose tiles have undermined other tiles that the whole roof is in danger of coming apart and blowing away in the next hurricane. I submit to you that every roof in our community that had any tile damage, no matter how small, is in the same position, if this is true. So that those of us who lost 20, 30 or 40 tiles now stand the chance of having tremendous roof damage based on this theory, and if this theory is valid, then why hasn't the Board of Directors informed every homeowner of this potential catastrophic problem? Can't you just see roof tiles flying all over in Baywinds in a storm together with the 4 inch nails attached to them?

Why has the Master Board remained completely silent about this potentially dangerous situation? Is this not a further breach of both their moral and fiduciary responsibility to all of us? Or are they just too confused to make another right decision? Wake up! It's your money and your homes and your investment!

Edmund Dante, a ReAct Team member pen name