The building has been paying for years, but the problems don't go away: a resident of the Korabelnyi district accused the condominium association (OSBB) of misconduct
A resident of Mykolaiv's OSBB complained about the "closed" management of the building
To the editorial office of Korabeliv.Info reached a resident of the Korabelnyi District, Tetiana Osadcha. In her letter she described the situation in the HOA “SONCE-162“, which is located at 162 Olega Kravtsia Street. According to the woman, she is a co-owner of the building and a consumer of housing and communal services, however she believes that the services for which residents regularly pay contributions are not provided in full.
The appeal states that the HOA, according to the author of the letter, has been operating since 2016, but the building, in her opinion, still has a number of unresolved problems: old pipes, unsatisfactory condition of the adjacent territory, lack of proper care for green areas, problems with financial reporting and questions about the management of the building.
Tetiana paid particular attention to the fact that residents, as she claims, pay contributions for the maintenance of the building and the adjacent territory, but part of the work allegedly has to be done by the co-owners themselves or paid for additionally to external specialists.
“Since the establishment of the HOA, like me, most residents pay, they pay for all expense items starting from building maintenance to upkeep of the adjacent territory. Our building still has not been renovated, the pipes are old, plants and grass are not watered and not trimmed, even though the HOA has a landscaper and other workers and all the necessary equipment and tools for this; I myself plant and water the plants at my own expense, the soil is not cultivated — there is very severe soil erosion, that is, the ground has become like stone, it’s much better at a cemetery. The staff also includes an electrician and a plumber, to whom the co-owners also pay, but we have to call external workers and pay again! According to the rules for providing housing and communal services this should not be!” – Tetiana complains.
Separately, the woman points to the problem of supplying the HOA cleaner with water for cleaning. According to her, every Tuesday the residents of the first floor fill bottles with water from their tap and leave them on the floor for cleaning the stairwell. According to the author of the letter, residents of the other floors do the same.
The appeal also raises the issue of fire safety.
“In our building there are violations regarding fire safety, which the HOA board and the owner of the shop “Molochnyi Rai” continue to ignore, who built an extension behind the building contrary to all fire safety norms and capital construction standards based on an illegal permit. In the photos you can see these violations: lack of access for a fire truck to the rear of the façade, obstacles — fences, the shop extension, trees, a metal garage,” — the HOA resident complains.
Another complaint concerns access to the HOA’s financial and other documents. The author of the letter notes that she requested documents, but in her opinion received an incomplete response. She refers to the charter of HOA “SONCE-162” and the Law of Ukraine “On Association of Co-owners of an Apartment Building,” emphasizing that co-owners have the right to familiarize themselves with financial reports, meeting minutes, voting results and other documents, except for confidential personal information.
According to Tetiana Osadcha, co-owners’ meetings in the building have not been held for a long time.
“But another violation — meetings have not been held for a long time since the HOA was established. Co-owners are deprived of the right to vote. And most importantly, decisions regarding the expenditure of all funds that co-owners pay are made not by them, but by the head of the HOA — in our case Chernyshova Olha Leonidivna,” — Osadcha notes.
Desperate resident Tetiana Osadcha emphasizes that she repeatedly appealed to the board of the HOA “SONCE-162”, to the Korabelna Administration, Mykolaivteploenergo, Main Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the Department of Housing and Communal Services and to the mayor, however, she says, in the responses she was told that such issues should be resolved by the co-owners themselves at meetings.
The appeal also states that since 2020 the HOA, according to the resident, made a decision that residents of the first floors should pay for the technical maintenance of the elevators. The author of the letter reported that a court case has already been initiated on this issue and is to be considered at a hearing.
Tetiana Osadcha asks to publicize the situation and draw attention to the fact that similar problems, she says, may concern not only one building but other HOAs where co-owners pay contributions for years but do not always have real access to reporting, inspections and decision-making.
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