Stay informed and you’ll make smart choices

Reminder of the upcoming MCA Board meeting next week. It will be at the Meadows Community Lifestyle and Wellness Facility, and probably via Zoom as well. Make sure it is in your calendars to attend. MCA’s recent practice is to send out an email about 48 hours before the meeting with a Zoom link. (48…

I you are interested in understanding the MCA’s restrictions, you need to review the Declaration of Maintenance Covenants and Restrictions on the Commons for The Meadows that are posted on the MCA website. Sounds simple enough, but you actually need to read the 1976 document (looks like it was typewritten, then photocopied a number of…

Yesterday at the Assembly of Property Owners meeting there were two items on the agenda: 1. Presentation from the MCA Treasurer on the draft 2025 budget. It is not yet approved by the MCA Board and will be posted with extensive details when it has been approved. Link to video of presentation.2. Presentations from each…

One of the aspects of MCA Homeowners’ subsidy of TMCC that some have trouble getting their mind around is the value of the assets which TMCC got for $10/year and now pays about net $15,000/year (we think!). Here is a way to think about it. “Ted McCarthy” (TMcC) owns a used car that isn’t in…

We, and many MCA Homeowners, are advocating for the MCA to hire an independent golf industry expert to help the MCA understand its options for its sports complex assets (golf courses, tennis, fitness, and dining facilities). An example of one would be National Golf Foundation. What are the upsides to taking this approach? What are…

We hope you’ll watch the videos if you weren’t one of the 250(!) MCA Homeowners who attended the meeting in person or via Zoom. It is the best way to get the truest picture of the meetings rather than relying a summary. The MCA Board did unanimously approve the $250,000 loan to TMCC, to be…

On Monday Nov 11 the MCA announced a 1 hour “Workshop” prior to the 2pm Board meeting to allow residents to ask questions about the proposed $250,000 loan to TMCC. Holding this sort of meeting to allow Residents to have an open dialogue with the Board is a very positive step and we commend the…

Reminder of this week’s MCA Board meeting at the Wellness Center Thursday Nov 14 @ 2pm. The MCA has not sent out any notice via email as they did that for the Special Meeting. The September Board meeting minutes indicate the Board approved a motion that notices of all future MCA Board meetings be sent…

At the recent MCA Board meeting the Treasurer indicated the proposed loan was necessary due to the impacts of the 3 hurricanes and TMCC would have the cash to repay the loans in February to April 2025. We opined that this is a permanent cashflow problem that will just recur even if the loan was…

As always, if anything is incorrect here please let us know and we will correct it. An MCA Homeowner has obtained and shared images of the new MCA/TMCC lease through the MCA’s Records Inspection Policy. MCA won’t provide a PDF of the documents so we received cell phone pictures of the lease and we reproduced…