Toxaway Views Home Owner's Resources

Toxaway Views Homeowners Association

Updated: February 28, 2010

The Board of Directors welcomes you to the Toxaway Views Homeowners Association. We hope that you will love your home in the mountains as we do. You will find our homeowners friendly, eager to meet you, and willing to answer questions you have about the area.

Many of the homeowners attend our annual meeting that is held on the nearest Saturday to the fourth of July. You will receive notification of the time and place in the mail prior to the meeting.

All homeowners are welcome to attend quarterly board meetings. The meetings are usually on the third Saturday of January, April, July (day of annual homeowners meeting), and October. If you plan to attend a meeting, check with a board member for the exact time, date, and location. The Board is always interested in hearing your questions, concerns, and ideas. If you want to get involved with the Homeowners Association as a committee or board member, please let a board member know of your interest.

*** Notice to TV Homeowners ***

Toxaway Views address changes - click here for listing of new 911/mailing addresses for the units in Toxaway Views. Transylvania County just recently updated the listing as of 2/11/2010 and will be sending a letter to each owner notifying them of the updated address and a "checklist" you should use for notifying everyone regarding the change. Please note that this is now the "official" site mailing address for TV unit owners.

April 2010 TVHA BODs quarterly meeting tentatively scheduled on-site for April 17th at 10 a.m.

February 17, 2010 - As most of you may be aware, this area has been hit by multiple weeks of continuous snow and ice making traversing the roads very difficult, if not sometimes impossible.

Photos Feb 1 - 12 - courtesy Laura Black via webcam TV203 deck

The entrance to TVHA is especially slick and the one incline just past building 3 is as well. The roads have been plowed a few times and salt has been spread. The problem is when the sun comes out during the day, it melts off the top layer of snow, then the temperatures dip down in the teens at night refreezing the melted snow from that day and making everything an ice skating rink the next morning. The snow plow blades have been placed as close to the pavement as they can go without damaging the roads or the blades themselves, but there is a few inches of hard packed ice that isn't melting very quick. Even the associations who have regular road maintenance are having a very difficult time with all this snow and ice.

Photos Feb 10 - courtesy Linda Harless

8" of snow on the 6th-7th; then 5-6" more on the 11th
 

Salt is becoming increasingly difficult to come by since most of the northern states and big cities seem to be receiving it first. The only place the local plow guys can find the salt is in Oregon and Ohio. Shipments are slow in getting to the mountains.

What most people don't realize is that salt is only effective down to 30 degrees. If the temperatures fall below that, might as well throw money down the drain because is doesn't melt the ice. There is another product on the market that works down to minus 5 degrees but it is extremely expensive and not readily available. The roads are being serviced by the snow plow crews to the best of their abilities, but sometimes Mother Nature wins out. Snow plows don't operate in blizzard conditions (for their own safety) until the weather clears and don't normally start servicing the roads until after the sun has been up a few hours giving it a chance to start warming up. If not, all they would do is pack down the snow/ice down even more making a bad situation even more dangerous.

Also, a warning to owners and their guests wanting to experience a "winter wonderland". They might have trouble getting up to TVHA and once there here, if we have more snow and ice, there are NO guarantees that they will be able to leave when they want to. Pro Management is doing the best they can to manage the situation within reason; however, sometimes even the property manager doesn't have any strings to pull when it comes to Mother Nature. 

Winterization Policy

Because owners are responsible for water damage caused by leaking or burst pipes, not only to their own unit but also ultimately to their neighbor's, the TVHA BOD requires that owners winterize their units during the winter season. The winter season is defined as November 1 through April 1.

If owners use their units sporadically between these dates, they should re-winterize after each visit.

Generally, winterization includes shutting off the water, draining water lines to relieve pressure, adding environmentally suitable antifreeze to sinks and toilets, and setting the thermostat to a point which will keep the unit from freezing or contribute to the freezing of adjacent units.

Winterization Suggestions:

The following are considered to be minimum items to accomplish winterization:
1. Shut off water supply
2. Drain water lines (at water manifold)
3. Shutoff power to HW heater
4. Empty toilet bowls and tanks
5. Put environmentally safe antifreeze into all sink drains, toilet bowls, toilet tanks and tub drains
6. Adjust thermostat to a minimum of 55 F
7. Empty ice trays & replace tray under ice maker

Upper level units will be more likely to experience freezing conditions and should be given special attention.

Suitable antifreeze is widely available at discount, sporting goods and RV supply stores. It is propylene glycol based and labeled to be safe for septic systems. Automotive products, even if made with propylene glycol, are not suitable and will damage septic tanks.

Owner should check with their insurance companies to assure that they carry adequate content and liability coverage should there be a leak. TVHA will not pay for damage to individual units and may act to recover damages if negligence by an owner causes damage to infrastructure.

*** Notice to TV Homeowners ***
TOXAWAY VIEWS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Work Order Request

TVs has a viable work order system in-place intended to provide tracking of all work order statuses and to keep the BODs informed as to progress and cost/invoice status. TVHA has a procedure for, preferably, submitting a work order request via this website, or alternatively downloading and printing a Work Order Action Request, which should be filled out and mailed or Faxed to Pro Management NC, LLC, who will enter into the work order status report. If a work request is not properly submitted by homeowners, the BODs have no way of knowing about or monitoring maintenance requests. Note that TV directors are strictly voluntary homeowners and deserve the same opportunity to enjoy their on-site time same as you; therefore, please extend them the courtesy of not interrupting their personal time with complaints and verbal or scrap paper request for your maintenance needs.

Communications with our Owners

We strive for this website to be a primary method of communication with our owners. To facilitate this, we need all TV owners to insure that we have correct contact information on record - especially a valid postal and email address - if available. Please review the Owners Directory (password required) and if your information is not completely correct - click here and submit updates.

NOTICE! NOTICE! NOTICE!

Toxaway Views Home Owners interactive Forum - available on this website! We invite and encourage all TV website users to utilize this forum to view and/or post community activities, personal activities of general interest to owners, local events, coordinate scheduled visit times at TV, suggestions/recommendations for improving our buildings and grounds, and much more - including a community calendar. Guests can view, but not post; registered members can post items including the calendar. Please - no Work Requests here - suggestions for improvements OK. Join your on-line community today! Click here!

Toxaway Views Homeowners Association

TV Homeowner's Association

BODs 2009-2010

Association mailing address

TV Homeowner's Association

PO Box 88

Sapphire, NC  28774

Dan Harless - President

Unit 305

Ph: 904-273-3123/828-883-8489

email: Dan Harless

Hank Bateman - Vice President

Unit 702

Ph: 704-821-7141/828-883-8327

mailto: Hank Bateman

Pat Sadler - Vice President

Unit 706

Ph: 770-396-5867/828-862-8897

email: Pat Sadler

Mollie Granger - Director/Secretary

Unit 204

Ph: 904-285-4361/828-884-3332

email: Mollie Granger

Don Woods - Director/Webmaster

Unit 704

Ph: 386-428-2183/Cel 386-478-9202/828-877-2521

email: Don Woods

Bob Moody - Director/Treasurer

Unit 503

Ph: 803-649-7972/828-862-5868

No email

TVHA Site Property  Management

After Hours Emergency

Melissa Ferlita

Ph: 828-226-9183

Notice to Owners

Homeowners' Association Documents

- now has its own webpage

Rules and Regulations

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The sidewalks, entrances, passages, vestibules, stairways, outside corridors and halls must not be obstructed or encumbered or used for any purpose other than ingress and egress to and from the premises.

No baby carriages, bicycles or other such objects shall be allowed to stand in the halls, passageways, or other common areas of the building.

No Unit Owner shall allow anything whatever to fall from the windows, doors or balconies of the premises, nor shall sweep or throw from the premises any dirt or other substances into any of the corridors, halls, ventilators or elsewhere in the buildings or upon the grounds.

No Unit Owner shall make or permit any disturbing noises in the buildings by himself, his pets, his family, servants, employees, agents, visitors and licensees, nor do or permit anything by such persons that will interfere with the rights, comforts, or conveniences of other Unit Owners.

No Unit Owner shall play upon, or suffer to be played upon, any musical instrument, or operate or suffer to be operated a phonograph, television set or radio in his Unit between the hours of eleven o'clock P.M. (11:00 P.M.) And the following eight o'clock A.M. (8:00 A.M.), if the same shall disturb or annoy other occupants of the building.

No Unit Owner shall conduct or permit to be conducted, vocal or instrumental practice, nor give or permit to be given vocal or instrumental instruction of any kind.

No pets shall be allowed to run at large in the common areas of the Condominium; however, a cat may run loose if belled. Dogs shall not be permitted outside of its owner's unit unless attended, on a leash, and under the control of its owner. In no event shall said dog ever be permitted in any of the recreation facilities i.e. pool area, tennis court, etc. All pet owners must pick up after their pets. Pets shall not be left unattended on porches or balconies. Tenants may not have pets within the Association.

Utility Providers

Mountain Internet Services (dial-up only) 828-884-9636        http://www.mtnisp.com/index.php

This community website is sponsored by the Toxaway Views Homeowners Association and hosted/maintained courtesy of Martha & Don Woods - Unit 704 owners, for the benefit of the TVHA and all TV owners. The sponsors solicit website content, photos, suggesting, comments (good or bad - well maybe mostly good), regarding expansion, and other improvements for enchanting this website to be a beneficial resource for all. Email webmaster.

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Revised: February 28, 2010.