And so, that fantasies continue.....
In our last response to one of Robert Sher's letters, we introduced Cedar Run homeowners to something we're calling 'Sher Fantasies'. These are statements made by Robert Sher that are deceptive, misleading, or just pure lies. We then gave a brief explanation of the truth. We received some great feedback, so we've provided our analysis of this current 'newsletter' in a similar fashion.
Sher's November letter is packed full of his 'fantasies' as always. Many of them were already addressed in our post on November 11th. Perhaps Sher feels that if he keeps repeating the same lies, that everyone will start to believe him.
But we did notice an interesting shift in this most recent newsletter. Sher still blames any and all problems on Alma, the former board, phase boards, etc.....the usual propaganda. However we can see that he is now trying to give himself a new image as our guardian angel, who swooped down from heaven to rescue Cedar Run. His selfless acts of kindness and philanthropy have since made Cedar Run such a great place!! We're all much happier now than we were two years ago...right?? WRONG!!
Sher Fantasy #1
Former Board left Sher with an empty bank account, and tried to secure a loan
LIE - See our previous rebuttal (fantasy #5). There were no efforts by the prior board to take out a loan. Sher claims that they were pursuing a loan for $110,000. In fact $110,000 was the cash balance in the previous board's bank account before Sher closed it. He got the dollar amount right, but it's an asset, not a liability as Sher alleges.
Sher Fantasy #2
Sher will recover money from former board
MISLEADING - Sher mentions this in passing, but the devil is in the details. The Sher group filed suit against ten former Master Board directors and Alma last summer. They alleged mismanagement, corruption, breach of fiduciary duty, and multiple other counts. Anne Shaw was naturally selected to argue this case (gotta keep it in the Shaw family), and our insurance company covered the cost to defend the accused individuals and Alma. On June 25th, 2013, all counts were thrown out due to lack of evidence. But that wasn't enough for Robert Sher to realize he has no case because he recently re-filed an amended complaint to keep this futile effort alive.....How much homeowner money must he spend before he finally accepts defeat??
Sher Fantasy #3
Alma Wasted money by repaving streets
MISLEADING - While it may be a matter of opinion whether the streets needed repaving (and most homeowners agree that they did), Sher leaves out the fact that crumbling concrete curbs, manhole covers, and driveways were also repaved/replaced. If you'd like to see the difference between a repaved street (which will last many years if maintained properly) and Robert Sher's patchwork, take a walk down some of the repaved courts and compare them to Locust and Spruce....then decide which seems like the wiser repair.
Sher Fantasy #4
Coach lights are the phase's responsibility
MISLEADING - It certainly could be argued that the garage coach lights, being attached to the building, are your phase's responsibility. Yet the master board has serviced them for years. Prior to Sher's takeover, this was budgeted for every year. We can all remember that the lights were well-maintained at that time. When Sher's group took over, they inherited the old board's budget and responsibilities. As for the light bulbs, they were promising to take care of them for several months, but making excuses for why they hadn't made progress....they claimed the bulbs were ordered and they are waiting for delivery, accused one homeowner of essentially hijacking the delivery, claimed that volunteer bulb-changers were being stalked.....anything to avoid taking care of the issue. Now this has been 'punted' on to the phases, just like the insurance. Once again, Robert Sher claims to have cut your costs, but he is really just making you pay from a different pocket, and he is NOT passing any savings onto you.
Sher Fantasy #5
Alma took away your shares in the Corporation
LIE - smoke and mirrors! Nobody took away your shares of anything. Each of the 408 homeowners owns one 'share' or piece of the Cedar Run Homeowners' Corporation (aka the master board). If you own two units, you own two shares...period! Robert Sher is referring to the fact that Cedar Run Homeowners' Corporation was 'involuntarily dissolved' in 1999. 'Dissolved' is a misleading term because the corporation never vanished or ceased to exist. It was simply not properly registered or 'incorporated' with the Secretary of State. This was easily fixable, as Robert Sher proved last year. While the old board's attorney should have fixed this, it was not anything near the conspiracy that Robert Sher alleges it to be. No shares were lost, taken, stolen, or eliminated. (more on this when we blog about the bylaws)
Sher Fantasy #6
Oversight Committee gives us Checks and Balances
LIE - This one is almost self-explanatory.....Miriam Webster's dictionary defines Checks & Balances as "A system in which the different parts of an organization (such as a government) have powers that affect and control the other parts so that no part can become too powerful." Robert Sher expects us to think that his oversight committee gives us that?!? The unchecked power wielded by the Sher/Shaw family via oversight committee is the exact reason we NEED Checks & Balances. Sher's version of Checks & Balances means he controls every board decision, pays himself (and papa Jack) handsomely for part-time work, and does away with elections that could threaten his power.
Sher Fantasy #7
Oversight Committee became licensed only to allow them to manage Cedar Run
LIE - He tried to slip this one by us...to no avail. Sher states, in passing, that the Oversight Committee (consisting of only him and Jack Shaw) attained a license to manage Cedar Run. He then claims that this license was attained strictly for the purpose of managing Cedar Run. As always the devil is in the details and this one requires some explanation....
Robert Sher and Jack Shaw both have Community Association Manager licenses, which are required by law for property managers. What Sher didn't tell you is that (#1) we, the homeowners paid for them to get this credential to the tune of $1438.07 (check # 1030, 9/27/12) and (#2) They immediately started marketing their property management services to other associations.
Shortly after taking control of Cedar Run, the Shaw Real Estate Group added a 'Property Management' section to their website, www.callmpa.com, which was 'under construction' at the time. Within the next few months, their Property Management web page went live, boasting decades of experience and making very similar promises that the Sher/Shaw group made to Cedar Run homeowners in order to gain their vote. So the bottom line is that Cedar Run Homeowner money was spent to give Robert Sher and Jack Shaw a professional license so we can hire them to manage us AND so they can expand their family business into property management.
Not happy about this?? Then you are encouraged to share your view with the State licensing authority. Email us at restoreCR@gmail.com, and we will gladly walk you through the process.
stay tuned for more Sher Fantasies.....
In our last response to one of Robert Sher's letters, we introduced Cedar Run homeowners to something we're calling 'Sher Fantasies'. These are statements made by Robert Sher that are deceptive, misleading, or just pure lies. We then gave a brief explanation of the truth. We received some great feedback, so we've provided our analysis of this current 'newsletter' in a similar fashion.
Sher's November letter is packed full of his 'fantasies' as always. Many of them were already addressed in our post on November 11th. Perhaps Sher feels that if he keeps repeating the same lies, that everyone will start to believe him.
But we did notice an interesting shift in this most recent newsletter. Sher still blames any and all problems on Alma, the former board, phase boards, etc.....the usual propaganda. However we can see that he is now trying to give himself a new image as our guardian angel, who swooped down from heaven to rescue Cedar Run. His selfless acts of kindness and philanthropy have since made Cedar Run such a great place!! We're all much happier now than we were two years ago...right?? WRONG!!
Sher Fantasy #1
Former Board left Sher with an empty bank account, and tried to secure a loan
LIE - See our previous rebuttal (fantasy #5). There were no efforts by the prior board to take out a loan. Sher claims that they were pursuing a loan for $110,000. In fact $110,000 was the cash balance in the previous board's bank account before Sher closed it. He got the dollar amount right, but it's an asset, not a liability as Sher alleges.
Sher Fantasy #2
Sher will recover money from former board
MISLEADING - Sher mentions this in passing, but the devil is in the details. The Sher group filed suit against ten former Master Board directors and Alma last summer. They alleged mismanagement, corruption, breach of fiduciary duty, and multiple other counts. Anne Shaw was naturally selected to argue this case (gotta keep it in the Shaw family), and our insurance company covered the cost to defend the accused individuals and Alma. On June 25th, 2013, all counts were thrown out due to lack of evidence. But that wasn't enough for Robert Sher to realize he has no case because he recently re-filed an amended complaint to keep this futile effort alive.....How much homeowner money must he spend before he finally accepts defeat??
Sher Fantasy #3
Alma Wasted money by repaving streets
MISLEADING - While it may be a matter of opinion whether the streets needed repaving (and most homeowners agree that they did), Sher leaves out the fact that crumbling concrete curbs, manhole covers, and driveways were also repaved/replaced. If you'd like to see the difference between a repaved street (which will last many years if maintained properly) and Robert Sher's patchwork, take a walk down some of the repaved courts and compare them to Locust and Spruce....then decide which seems like the wiser repair.
Sher Fantasy #4
Coach lights are the phase's responsibility
MISLEADING - It certainly could be argued that the garage coach lights, being attached to the building, are your phase's responsibility. Yet the master board has serviced them for years. Prior to Sher's takeover, this was budgeted for every year. We can all remember that the lights were well-maintained at that time. When Sher's group took over, they inherited the old board's budget and responsibilities. As for the light bulbs, they were promising to take care of them for several months, but making excuses for why they hadn't made progress....they claimed the bulbs were ordered and they are waiting for delivery, accused one homeowner of essentially hijacking the delivery, claimed that volunteer bulb-changers were being stalked.....anything to avoid taking care of the issue. Now this has been 'punted' on to the phases, just like the insurance. Once again, Robert Sher claims to have cut your costs, but he is really just making you pay from a different pocket, and he is NOT passing any savings onto you.
Sher Fantasy #5
Alma took away your shares in the Corporation
LIE - smoke and mirrors! Nobody took away your shares of anything. Each of the 408 homeowners owns one 'share' or piece of the Cedar Run Homeowners' Corporation (aka the master board). If you own two units, you own two shares...period! Robert Sher is referring to the fact that Cedar Run Homeowners' Corporation was 'involuntarily dissolved' in 1999. 'Dissolved' is a misleading term because the corporation never vanished or ceased to exist. It was simply not properly registered or 'incorporated' with the Secretary of State. This was easily fixable, as Robert Sher proved last year. While the old board's attorney should have fixed this, it was not anything near the conspiracy that Robert Sher alleges it to be. No shares were lost, taken, stolen, or eliminated. (more on this when we blog about the bylaws)
Sher Fantasy #6
Oversight Committee gives us Checks and Balances
LIE - This one is almost self-explanatory.....Miriam Webster's dictionary defines Checks & Balances as "A system in which the different parts of an organization (such as a government) have powers that affect and control the other parts so that no part can become too powerful." Robert Sher expects us to think that his oversight committee gives us that?!? The unchecked power wielded by the Sher/Shaw family via oversight committee is the exact reason we NEED Checks & Balances. Sher's version of Checks & Balances means he controls every board decision, pays himself (and papa Jack) handsomely for part-time work, and does away with elections that could threaten his power.
Sher Fantasy #7
Oversight Committee became licensed only to allow them to manage Cedar Run
LIE - He tried to slip this one by us...to no avail. Sher states, in passing, that the Oversight Committee (consisting of only him and Jack Shaw) attained a license to manage Cedar Run. He then claims that this license was attained strictly for the purpose of managing Cedar Run. As always the devil is in the details and this one requires some explanation....
Robert Sher and Jack Shaw both have Community Association Manager licenses, which are required by law for property managers. What Sher didn't tell you is that (#1) we, the homeowners paid for them to get this credential to the tune of $1438.07 (check # 1030, 9/27/12) and (#2) They immediately started marketing their property management services to other associations.
Shortly after taking control of Cedar Run, the Shaw Real Estate Group added a 'Property Management' section to their website, www.callmpa.com, which was 'under construction' at the time. Within the next few months, their Property Management web page went live, boasting decades of experience and making very similar promises that the Sher/Shaw group made to Cedar Run homeowners in order to gain their vote. So the bottom line is that Cedar Run Homeowner money was spent to give Robert Sher and Jack Shaw a professional license so we can hire them to manage us AND so they can expand their family business into property management.
Not happy about this?? Then you are encouraged to share your view with the State licensing authority. Email us at restoreCR@gmail.com, and we will gladly walk you through the process.
stay tuned for more Sher Fantasies.....
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