Fitting In With the Crowd at Condo Owners’ Meetings

How new condo members can conform at homeowners association meetings:

--Make motion about mail delivery coming too late.

--Vote down assessments of any kind.

--Refer new washer-dryer contract back to committee for the sixth time.

--Say in a loud voice that the audit has got to be rigged.

--Protest key replacement charge.

--Petition for leaving the name of insurance company under wiper blades on sideswiped cars in garage.

--Get appointed to speakers’ bureau by criticizing internal affairs committee.

--Ask for bonding of newspaper delivery person who has lobby key to get in before 6 a.m.

--Hold out for disconnecting entrance phones at 8:30 p.m.

--Insist on deleting two phrases from minutes of last meeting.

--Recommend less banging noise on dumpster day at 4 a.m.

--Encourage financial committee to change banks on account of free postage (both ways).

--Express dissatisfaction with annual meeting area on account of low back pain from hard folding chairs.

--Suggest shopping news be thrown out of lobby after four weeks.

--Demand management give doorman his birthday off with overtime pay.

--Opt for cable instead of dish antenna but with no added cost.

--Vote down fee increases of any kind.