Choose the right candidate

It’s your vote, your choice but it impacts Parkside so exercise wisdom & caution before casting your vote.

Choose the right candidate for Parkside’s better future

1.   Candidates need to work as a team while on the HOA Board with the prime focus being the whole of Parkside NOT just their alley, street or yard.

2.   HOA Board members should be one who can have the right attitude and relationship with vendors and work peacefully with the HOA management company and HOA law firm.

3.   Residents/Board need doers, not mere talkers to do this job. Also, they should be approachable, dependable, and those who wish to do something good that is for the betterment of Parkside. It is nice to have some prior HOA or volunteer experience.

4.   Choose an HOA Board member’s team which has a mix of past HOA Board members and new Board members (who have some credible experience like working in ARC and volunteer events) as it helps in continuing the long-term aspirations of the community.

5.   Choose HOA Board members who has proven past track record for working for the community as a volunteer.

6.   Choose HOA Board members who connect well with the residents and understand the pulse better.

7.   Choose the ones who are willing to help others and have patience dealing with residents.

8.   The candidate should be willing to work with any other elected HOA Board member.

9.   Beware of some candidates who just want to do some work in their vicinity NOT for the entire Parkside neighborhood.

10.Beware of some candidates who have been disruptive and opposed the very idea of HOA itself.

11.You would want HOA Board members who unite residents together by volunteering in social events like Diwali, Holi, Nav Durga, Ester and other festivals.

12.We want HOA Board members who are helping and active thru out the year NOT just active only at the time of elections and have hidden agendas.

13.For e.g., one candidate is talking about Basketball & playgrounds but only looking to fix the creek at Arches with HOA money. That particular candidate is behaving nice only during the time of election and later will show true colors. In the past, this candidate wanted to close the HOA(no resident HOA Board) and only wanted some private company to run HOA.

14.One specific candidate asked HOA to stop celebrating Holi festival because it is ethnic festival and not popular (less than 200 residents attended even when it was 900). At the same time, for election purpose this candidate is posting photos wearing ethnic wear just for votes.

15.One specific candidate is promoting India kind of reservation for HOA elections like reserve 2 seats for women.

16.If candidates don’t have any specific agendas, they will create totally fake agenda to appease some very specific section of residents to somehow prove their relevance. One can decide what these candidates will do once they are part of HOA Board?

17.Meeting with City of Irving can be done by any resident. Why one specific candidate setup the meeting with City of Irving just few days prior to final voting day? Why this meeting was not setup prior to election?

18.Why some of the residents are just coming up with ideas now only? Is it like elections in India where all the promises (from leaders) and demands (from public) surface out during election time only?

19.I believe some candidates are over promising and some resident’s demands are not realistic at all. At one side, some candidates are talking about reducing HOA assessment but keep on promising new stuff without having much knowledge about HOA financials and how the revenue will be generated for those unrealistic promises? If every candidate at least explains residents with facts in terms of what is their one focal point and how that will be achieved – that will be great.

20.Some of the candidate never came forward as a volunteer for any event or never have even logged in to the HOA portal to understand “how HOA works?”. Talking is easy, doing is difficult.

21.Some of these candidates are highly divisive and manufacturing issues on their own like only some residents got notices but not all or some of the ARC request took too much time. If they get elected, they will divide this beautiful and peaceful community rather than doing any good. It’s the HOA management companies which sends notice NOT HOA Board. HOA Board gets the report and in case any resident has any issue, they should reach out to Management company first. In case no response then CC Board members for escalation. That’s the process that needs to be followed. Management company sent eBlast on 28th Apr 2023 about the same. 

22.Please read this blog which has HOA 101 – educates Home owners in terms of responsibilities of HOA Board, HOA management company, City, DFW and any other entities.

23. Winning HOA Board election is not the only thing; one has to earn the trust of the residents-that’s the most important task.

24. Watch out for the candidates who says we can't read long blogs. If you are in HOA, you have to go thru long legal contracts from vendors and other entities. You need to have patience dealing with resident's issues. HOA is definitely not the right place for them.

25. HOA elections should be low profile and peaceful. If some candidates are very hostile with other candidates, then what are they proving out here? How they will treat HOA management company, vendors and most importantly residents?

26. You can go door to door for campaign, but where were you since 2014 or since when you started living here? How many of them were in City Hall meetings or volunteering in community events or came forward for something which was for the betterment of Parkside?

27. Not everybody has past experience as HOA Board member or volunteer but what about having right attitude?