Quality of Experience:
Stress
[He]
looks for tiny reasons to get upset. He's like a
high-strung child that everyone
[else is]
afraid of.
Owner
Key members of the board have been accused of using power
irresponsibly by needlessly fabricating issues and then treating them as
zero-sum games. The rationalization
is often juvenile or obscure.
Rules and fines for owners are imposed arbitrarily and with prejudice.
Those wanting to be left alone are provoked and taunted in ways that are
childish and excessive.
This not only creates unnecessary stress on the
victims, who simply want to relax and enjoy themselves, but also on those not
directly involved, as it raises legal, liability and other expenses while putting
downward pressure on sales prices. (As one investor bluntly put it,
“Who wants to have any part of their lives
controlled by an asshole?”)
A thoughtful e-mail from a former owner agrees that the problems stem from the
president's personality. Here are relevant excerpts:
"Scott is one of those people who needs stimulation, but his fun always
comes at other people's expense
[...]
"With Scott, everything is about winning. In order to win, you
need issues, which is why he creates them. Most of it is about control,
but sometimes he manufacture 'wins' that he can brag about so that we pat him on
the back.
"He
loves to push people's buttons - make them run around and
waste their time and money. Since there is zero accountability [at
Beaver Ridge], he can take it much further than you might expect a community
of adults to tolerate. Lives have been turned upside down for his
amusement.
"He is very good at detecting and exploiting weak spots, but you will never see
him take responsibility for the damage he causes [...]
"At the same time, he has to deceive and manipulate a core group to retain
power. The trick is keeping them from finding out what he does or, if they do,
conning them into thinking that it is the victim's fault. This is what thrills
him. How outrageous can he act around the edges without the people in the
middle figuring him out?"
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