ASK A BOARDMEMBER is an informative series intended to give answers to common questions from Lacamas View homeowners. The answers provided represent the Lacamas View HOA Board's current best-faith interpretations of HOA CC&R's. Nothing in this series should ever be construed as abridging Lacamas View CC&R's, which remain the definitive source for all Lacamas View homeowner rights and responsibilities. In case of questions or ambiguities, please contact the Lacamas View HOA Board to consider and decide your issue.
Unfortunately it seems that property crime is on the rise in our area, with increased reports of package thefts, car break-ins, and forced entry into mailboxes. As our subdivision was originally considered a rural area, we have cluster box units of about 10 mail boxes in common outdoor "walls" with 2 large parcel lockers at the bottom for large packages.
In case you are the victim of forced-entry mailbox theft or are simply considering strengthening your mailbox to prevent the same, here are answers to some common questions:
- each mail box and its associated hardware is the property and responsibility of its assigned homeowner, not the HOA or the United States Postal Service
- thus all costs of repairing damage to a mailbox due to forced-entry, vandalism, or simple wear-and-tear shall be borne by the homeowner to which the box is assigned
- a homeowner is perfectly within their rights to at any time upgrade the lock of their mail box
- should damage occur to either of the shared large parcel slots, it is the responsibility of all homeowners receiving mail at that cluster unit to pay for the repairs
