Are the papers I signed legal in my FL HOA?
To make a long story short, I found out the Masters Association my association is in is likely run by a bunch of crooks who took over the master association HOA and did a complete overhaul of the covenants giving themselves a tremendous amount of protection and making only them members of the association (only the heads of each of the 5 villages is a member).
The head of my village hoa has appointed himself for the last 25 years to be the member of the Master's Association who sits on the board. As soon as he got on the Master's Association almost 20 years ago, he: 1) led the rewriting of all the covenants so we would have no idea of what the Master's Association board because only were members and they voted behind closed doors, signed a loan that the resident's dues were a security for, and opened up an LLC that I am guessing he is paying himself with. Additionally another woman on the board opened up 2-3 HOA inc with names very similar to ours, again with the registered agent who was behind all of this. I found out this woman has a federal summary against her for opening up fake companies for (I think) money laundering.
I moved here only 4 years ago. When we moved, we were told we had to be part of the HOA by a lawyer (it was FL and COVID, there were no choices). We signed papers saying we would be part of the association. I recently realized my village association never did a revitalization in time and it does not look like they filed a preservation. I'm guessing that I only signed paperwork for the village because I couldn't technically be a member of the Master Association.
Does anyone know if I can say the contract I signed is null and void because the covenants had expired? Could I permanently get away from the Master Association HOA which I am afraid may have cost the Master's Association to be in deep debt? Our village is the only one (out of 5) that looks like never had a proper revitalization.
If you know of a really competent FL HOA attorney, please let me know.