Nightmare manager making my life difficult
My association has an annual laundry machine vent cleaning service that comes to the Buikding. Every year, I let them in, show them my ventless dryer and they go on their way 60 seconds later.. This year, right after mngt made the announcement for the cleaning in May, I emailed them reminding them to check their records from last year, because my unit is ventless and therefore access to my apartment is not necessary.
The next day they replied to me, telling me that I need to get a notarized letter saying that I have ventless dryer.
I replied saying they didn’t request this ‘notarized letter’ last year and asked if this was a new rule, and where can I find it in our CCRs?
Instead of replying to me directly, they doubled down and sent a community wide message saying:
“If you are one of the few people who may have a ventless dryer system, you will need to provide management a notarized letter stating you have such a device no later than the close of business on May 18th, 2026. Failure to provide this information or to have your dryers cleaned (whichever may be applicable) could result in daily fines until abated.”
We have an open board call later this month where I’m going to bring this up…
Other than pointing out the obvious; new requirement, asking for CCRs woth no answer, noting that a notary is just authenticating the signor and not the content of the letter….i really want to show the rest of the community how incompetent they are, using this an a prime example.
To be clear, I’m not denying access for an emergency. But if this was truly an emergency or a safely issue one would think the association would want to verify the configuration of my unit instead of burdening me with a ridiculous certified letter.