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- monarch 4 weeks 16,17,18 and 19
I could not agree more with you. I still don't believe the money the owners have paid for "REFURBISHMENT" allows the BOD to use it for major structural changes that are not completely necessary and that refurbishing a window with a wall is not refurbishment. I also have sent a letter to the board and have not heard back. I hope it will not take a law suit to get a response. I wish all the owners could be notified and a vote taken. In addition I don't understand why board can't separate the various merits of each building at the Monarch, and not throw the baby out with the bath water. I as a owner will fight the board, I hope I am not alone.Thank you for your response. I really wish the Board would reach out to the owners as they did for the parking situation a few years ago. Although we are definitely not for the change to the wall, if most owners use the sofa for a bed and want the extra room, I can accept that. Your facebook member numbers are very interesting. I have reached out to owners we know. Like your FB numbers, we found far more are against changing the wall - even those that have 3 generations staying in their unit.
At the "Java with the GM" meeting we attended, we were told they would be putting the sofa on the bedroom wall. In one of our units, this will put us facing the lagoon and not the ocean which we can now see from the couch. We know someone who has a unit closest to the beach in Magnolia, and they were told "you bought garden view". They bought their fixed unit because it does have an ocean view. To put their sofa facing the pool/lagoon and also take away the aquarium window and not put in another window on the side so they continue to have a view of the ocean seems crazy to me. I would hope that since the windows/sliders are being replaced, they will continue to have the sofa face the ocean with those that have any kind of an ocean view. Since we have an ocean front unit, we are also upset about the change to the windows. This will decrease the amount of beach we can see from inside our unit. Once we heard of the changes, we were amazed how often we do look out the small side of the aquarium window. We hope the Board will at least give us a side window and not just a wall
Like you, we have always thought that the management team and the Board have done a great job communicating with the owners. We love our Monarch weeks. Right now, we are hearing of major changes to our units and it would be nice if these changes would at least be posted on the Monarch owner site. The Board may not be required to get approval from the owners, but with the money being spent, I would hope they would want owner input. They could easily e-mail most owners, as they have most of our e-mail addresses. If any tuggers do get a response from the Board or if you see Monarchowners has posted the proposed changes, please post on TUG. Thanks!