Condo Owners Want More Power To Fight Their Homeowners Boards 1 A new effort is afoot to get the Legislature to create an ombudsman for condos and homeowners’ associations.
When Spencer Taylor, a homeowner in the Villas at Peppers Ferry in Christiansburg, Virginia, had a complaint against his condominium board, Taylor took his concerns to Heather Gillespie.
As Virginia’s Common Interest Community Ombudsman, Gillespie referees disputes between condominium owners and boards through a low-cost, public process that holds boards accountable while giving homeowners a chance to air grievances publicly.
In Taylor’s case, he learned the association had violated the state’s condo law by using $176 of money paid by owners for things like maintenance of common areas to replace four faulty toilets in two privately owned condo units.
