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Appeal Charges | |
We often get requests from
homeowners to waive charges to their account...
Click
here to view the Appeal Request form
These charges may be late fees,
collections costs, or CC&R violation fines. Renaissance does
NOT have the authority to waive any charges applied
to your account. Only your Board of Directors has that ability.
Your Board will usually meet in
"Executive Session" in conjunction with most regularly scheduled
board meetings. During those meetings, not open to the public
(as provided in ARS 33-1804), the board will consider your
request.
Renaissance applies an objective
"scoring" methodology to your appeal. That score is presented to
the board when considering your appeal. Appeals are all
considered on an individual, objective basis.
The success of your request will depend
on a number of factors:
 | Are you current in payment of
your assessments? Most boards find it very hard to be
lenient to a homeowner who is not doing their part
financially. |
| Did the association incur any
costs? Demand notices, intent to lien, liens, intent to
sue, lawsuits, filing fees, etc are all real
costs to the association. We call them "hard costs". If the
board waives your hard costs, it means your neighbors will
be paying your hard costs. Most boards will not waive hard
costs. |
| Have you repaired the problem?
If you received a fine for a CC&R violation and you have not
fixed the problem for which you were fined, chances are your
fine will not be waived. |
| Have you had a lot of
violations? If you are frequently receiving fines for
CC&R violations it increases your score and lessens your
chances that the board will waive your fine. |
| Were you nasty in your letter
or in-person appeal? Our boards do their best to be
completely objective when considering appeals but they are
also human and they are your neighbors. In most successful
appeals the owner was kind and not nasty. Similarly demands
and threats don't work too well. |
| Have you requested a waiver
recently? If you are appealing on a regular basis, the
board will likely take it as sign that you have not changed
your behavior. |
You will always be treated with
respect, kindness and fairness. Sometimes people who didn't "get
their way" believe that they weren't treated in that manner. We
apologize in advance if your appeal is not successful. The
boards must look out for the interests of the whole community
and make their decisions accordingly.
Click
here to view the Appeal Request form | 
