For a month or so, a group of us have had discussions via e-mail about the official website of the estate. Most of the views we received back were that this is not a website dedicated to the home owners, but rather for "some" board members to show that they can flex even more muscle. The fact that they are still on to some owners for not complying with the guidelines and others (even if the board have proof in front of them) get away with anything.
We decided to put Rynette Farrar up to posting comments on their forum under the heading "Stand 186 Open Ducts", and not amazingly of course, they blocked it immediately. Attached here are the two comments she posted on their forum page and also the e-mail she received back from them the next morning.
First comment sent:-
Re: Stand 186 Open Ducts 1 Day, 8 Hours ago Karma: 0
Don't be so sure that the board will do something about it, because the Guidelines book is only for a selective number of people. Some will get away with it and others are told to comply.
Rynette
Fresh Boarder Posts: 2
Second comment sent:-
Re: Stand 186 Open Ducts 1 Day, 6 Hours ago Karma: 0
Having read some of these letters again, I cannot believe that the board is till pressing on about residents not complying with the Guidelines. I have been complaining about stand 324's height (which is now at 12.0m plus his roof) since December 2008 before even one brick was laid. After giving the board the proof of this with my land surveyor's report (even the estate's land surveyor agrees) and been promised by the board in December 2009 that they will withdraw their permission for this building to carry on, they decided not to do this because of previous poor decisions made by their own Architectural Committee board. In their last meeting about this problem, most of them agreed that I had given them enough proof that this building was not according to the Guidelines. Giving the owner a fine is not going to bring back my view or my privacy either. Are decisions made by the board according to the proof in front of them or by consensus or by some who wish to dominate proceedings? Many of the answers to my correspondence were in fact from decisions of only two or three members but signed as if it were from the entire board. I have from the beginning addressed my concerns to the entire board and not to the Architectural Committee only. I only discovered late into this saga that many of the board members were not privy to what was going on until my petition. Why have they all been kept in the dark? If the truth been known about this case, the decisions made by the Architectural Committee on behalf of the "full board" were wrong. To cover their 'butts' they obviously had to support these few decision makers regardless of their poor performance. It appears to me that 'the rules and guidelines' are about as worthless as some of the board members who were elected to police them. Unfortunately the actions of some of the
board members have brought down the integrity of the board as an entity in my opinion. My advice to everyone is to send board members to go and rectify the wrong doings on stand 324 first, before they come and force other people to comply with 'minor' issues. Maybe it is also a good idea to make a nice fire with the guideline book this winter.Rynette
Fresh Boarder Posts: 2
This was the e-mail that was send to Rynette the next morning -
From: Meyersdal Nature Estate Forum (mailto:info@natureestate.co.za)
Sent: 06 April 2010 01:45PM
To: rynette@orbitaldistributors.co.za
Subject: (Meyersdal Nature Estate Forum)
Re: Stand 186 Open Ducts (Eco Compliments And Complaints)
A new post has been made to a topic which you have subscribed on the Meyersdal Nature Estate Forum
Posted by: Die Magistraat
Message:-
Bla Bla Bla! Rules are there for everyone! But the forum rules don't get followed by the very person that blatantly hijacks someone elses post - total disregard and disrespect. And then goes to brake another rule where insult follows the matter!
Ek is nie snaaks nie maar jy het vandag jou naam so hard geplank - ek kan 'n boek skryf.
Welgedaan!
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But we did send them the following answer -
Ja, Bla, Bla, Bla - jy's gevang vir 'n sucker!!!! Het dit gepos en presies wat ons gedink het, het gebeur!! Ons is 'n klomp wat nou gesien het wat julle doen - julle het die toets met los hande gedop. Jammer!
Pos iets waarvan die "brotherwood" nie hou nie, en dit word nie gepubliseer nie!
En julle noem julle self deursigtig - kry 'n life!
Rynette
We actually expected to catch a fish, but that the fish would be so quick and so big - this was awesome! Die magistraat - board member that set a good example?
Until later
Ciarra
