Thanks to who was able to make it last night.
It was a good start.
Topic to follow up:
Downtown Women Center
HOA
Recycling
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Tonights Quick Meeting
If it's still raining outside, and I fear it will be. Let's meet on the 3rd floor lounge. It will be bright and dry.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Letter received today from Hammer Ventures
Good afternoon Bill,
Let me introduce myself, I am Suzy Bramzon, the project manager for the developer of Little Tokyo Lofts. It is my understanding that you are organizing a meet and greet for the residents at LTL and to brief them on an upcoming meeting regarding the Downtown Women’s Shelter. I would like to you to know that the developer is moving up the first HOA meeting to this Friday, February 1. You should be getting a notice today. We are currently gathering as much information as we can regarding the recent developments involving the relocation of the Downtown Women’s Center which we will share with the residents at the meeting on Friday. I am reaching out to you about this because it may be best top postpone your meeting until Friday. Everyone’s time is valuable and I would hate to take up too much of the residents’ time.
Thanks and feel free to contact me should you have any questions or concerns.
Suzy Bramzon
Hammer Ventures*
3760 Convoy Street
Suite 332
San Diego, CA 92111
P – 858.751.0739
F – 858.751.0747
bramzon@hammerventures.com
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Homeowners meeting
Tuesday Jan. 30th at 8.pm in the pool area.
Bill left a flyer inside our mail box to set up a meeting, exchange contact info, and prepere
any concerns we have before our meeting with the management company and the Downtown
womens center.
Bill left a flyer inside our mail box to set up a meeting, exchange contact info, and prepere
any concerns we have before our meeting with the management company and the Downtown
womens center.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
women's shelter issue
this is the e-mail response I got from estela lopez. She is really wonderful, Matt (my boyfriend) spoke with her this morning following my receiving this e-mail, and she wants LTL to be a part of a meeting with the DWC Feb 5. Please see the post on the bulletin board on the 2nd floor regarding this.
annie, i am the director of the Central CIty East Assn. James Doizaki kindly shared your concerns about the Downtown Womens' Center (DWC) moving next door to you. there was a public hearing at the Community Redevelopment Agency last week, which i found out about just a few days in advance...and quite by accident. i immediately contacted your HOA management office. they had their attorney contact me. i gave her all the information and she said she would be there to speak on behalf of the owners of LT Lofts. but no one came. i was the only person there to speak out against the grossly inadequate public outreach by the DWC on this project. the DWC had a long list of people there to speak in support. the project received the green light to move forward. nevertheless, the DWC staff has been directed by the city council office to meet with me and provide me with information on their design and operations plan for the new location. they have indicated that i can invite whomever i wish to this meeting. would you like to come? it is on Monday, Feb. 5 at 2pm at their existing location on Los Angeles Street. My contact info is below.
Estela Lopez, Executive Director
Central City East Association
725 S. Crocker Street
Los Angeles, CA 90021
tel. 213-228-8484 ext. 12
fax. 213-228-8488
elopez@centralcityeast.org
annie, i am the director of the Central CIty East Assn. James Doizaki kindly shared your concerns about the Downtown Womens' Center (DWC) moving next door to you. there was a public hearing at the Community Redevelopment Agency last week, which i found out about just a few days in advance...and quite by accident. i immediately contacted your HOA management office. they had their attorney contact me. i gave her all the information and she said she would be there to speak on behalf of the owners of LT Lofts. but no one came. i was the only person there to speak out against the grossly inadequate public outreach by the DWC on this project. the DWC had a long list of people there to speak in support. the project received the green light to move forward. nevertheless, the DWC staff has been directed by the city council office to meet with me and provide me with information on their design and operations plan for the new location. they have indicated that i can invite whomever i wish to this meeting. would you like to come? it is on Monday, Feb. 5 at 2pm at their existing location on Los Angeles Street. My contact info is below.
Estela Lopez, Executive Director
Central City East Association
725 S. Crocker Street
Los Angeles, CA 90021
tel. 213-228-8484 ext. 12
fax. 213-228-8488
elopez@centralcityeast.org
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Here we are...
Hello everyone,
I decided to open a blog so it will be much easier to keep everybody updated.
History...
Last Saturday a few people (Loft owners) had a brief conversation complaining about the conduct
of the Management Company and the high cost of HOA.
A few emails have been already sent...
Eryn wrote:
Just thought I would update you all.
I had a lovely chat with Tony in the sales office tonight about HOA and the Management Company...... He explained that they are aware of the problems and are putting pressure on them to get there act together..... Ray is no longer responsible for our building and they ( the sales team ) are exploring other options for the Management of our building.
Tony explained to me that normally in situations like ours the management company is responsible for calling the first HOA meeting and setting up the HOA when enough of the unit are sold, etc......
Because we have had so many problems with our management company this is a huge concern.
As for setting up a meeting of our own and trying to include all the buyers getting a list of people is a bit tricky.
The sales office is by law is not at liberty to distribute the names and contact info of the owners at LTL. And because on new conversions it take about a year to get information on the owners of the building through the state property directory this is not an option. I am talking with Tony and Angela about how as concerned property owners we might proceed .... I am waiting for them to get back to me.
Tony gave me a copy of the draft for LTL which has all the laws and procedures of the building.....I believe everyone recieved one on CD when they closed. ( I can't access mine because a mac won't read it).... So I will look through the hard copy for the exact protocol on starting the HOA... Some one mentioned when 51% of the building had been sold or 6 months after the first sale the HOA s supposed to be activated... We need to find that in writing so we can move forward...
If any one knows exactly where it is let me know.
As, for getting people together I think we should start with the people that we know or have meet since we have been here.... word of mouth, get an email add it to the list and we will just start communicating about what is going on. If some one wants to initiate a gathering one evening, go for it with the few people that we have who want to be involved in taking care of our building.
A quick note on that..... There are a few people who rent and they have no weight in the HOA or in helping us move forward with our concerns about the management company.
Just to keep it simple they don't need to be get involved at this time.
The sales team is great, are aware of our concerns and seems to be ready to help us sort this out. This is very cool because it is not in their responsibility. So, I will keep you all posted on what the sales team gets back to me on in the next few days or so.
Here is a draft of a letter to slip under doors, take a look at it if you have time and let mw know any changes that should be made. I offered my e-mail address, but if any of you feels super organized e-mail wise, maybe another address would be better? Matt reminded me that the builders are owners, too, and should get a copy of this letter.
I decided to open a blog so it will be much easier to keep everybody updated.
History...
Last Saturday a few people (Loft owners) had a brief conversation complaining about the conduct
of the Management Company and the high cost of HOA.
A few emails have been already sent...
Eryn wrote:
Just thought I would update you all.
I had a lovely chat with Tony in the sales office tonight about HOA and the Management Company...... He explained that they are aware of the problems and are putting pressure on them to get there act together..... Ray is no longer responsible for our building and they ( the sales team ) are exploring other options for the Management of our building.
Tony explained to me that normally in situations like ours the management company is responsible for calling the first HOA meeting and setting up the HOA when enough of the unit are sold, etc......
Because we have had so many problems with our management company this is a huge concern.
As for setting up a meeting of our own and trying to include all the buyers getting a list of people is a bit tricky.
The sales office is by law is not at liberty to distribute the names and contact info of the owners at LTL. And because on new conversions it take about a year to get information on the owners of the building through the state property directory this is not an option. I am talking with Tony and Angela about how as concerned property owners we might proceed .... I am waiting for them to get back to me.
Tony gave me a copy of the draft for LTL which has all the laws and procedures of the building.....I believe everyone recieved one on CD when they closed. ( I can't access mine because a mac won't read it).... So I will look through the hard copy for the exact protocol on starting the HOA... Some one mentioned when 51% of the building had been sold or 6 months after the first sale the HOA s supposed to be activated... We need to find that in writing so we can move forward...
If any one knows exactly where it is let me know.
As, for getting people together I think we should start with the people that we know or have meet since we have been here.... word of mouth, get an email add it to the list and we will just start communicating about what is going on. If some one wants to initiate a gathering one evening, go for it with the few people that we have who want to be involved in taking care of our building.
A quick note on that..... There are a few people who rent and they have no weight in the HOA or in helping us move forward with our concerns about the management company.
Just to keep it simple they don't need to be get involved at this time.
The sales team is great, are aware of our concerns and seems to be ready to help us sort this out. This is very cool because it is not in their responsibility. So, I will keep you all posted on what the sales team gets back to me on in the next few days or so.
We thought it could be a good idea write a letter to slip under doors of other loft owners in order to inform them about what we are doing...
Anne wrote:
Here is a draft of a letter to slip under doors, take a look at it if you have time and let mw know any changes that should be made. I offered my e-mail address, but if any of you feels super organized e-mail wise, maybe another address would be better? Matt reminded me that the builders are owners, too, and should get a copy of this letter.
Below the letter Anne wrote:
DEAR FELLOW LTL HOMEOWNER,
A few loft owners have had problems with the person assigned to us at LB Properties, (the management company assigned by the Builders for our building.)
We are slipping this note under your door to inquire about your interest in making sure we have a manager and Management Company who are attentive to us and our building. Some issues that seem to have been neglected by LBP are things like billing for HOA dues (even though it might seem nice not to have to pay now, we’ll pay later if this money is not collected or is mismanaged!) and prompt and polite return of phone calls and e-mails regarding maintenance.
If you, as an owner, have had any problem with LB management and would like to have an informal meeting to discuss what we can do, send an e-mail to annedudek@mac.com and we’ll figure out a time for the concerned owners to meet in person.
A few loft owners have had problems with the person assigned to us at LB Properties, (the management company assigned by the Builders for our building.)
We are slipping this note under your door to inquire about your interest in making sure we have a manager and Management Company who are attentive to us and our building. Some issues that seem to have been neglected by LBP are things like billing for HOA dues (even though it might seem nice not to have to pay now, we’ll pay later if this money is not collected or is mismanaged!) and prompt and polite return of phone calls and e-mails regarding maintenance.
If you, as an owner, have had any problem with LB management and would like to have an informal meeting to discuss what we can do, send an e-mail to annedudek@mac.com and we’ll figure out a time for the concerned owners to meet in person.
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