The Forest Heights Homeowners Association has improved its performances in many respects since we moved here, including that it now has an outstanding office admin named Brittanie. The last time I visited the Association's office, she answered all of my questions in a very professional manner and she is a very bright personality. This is what I like to see from the organization heading up one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in the city. I like also that the Association is focusing resources on emergency preparedness and other issues critical to my neighbors, rather than on petty compliance sanctioning that only creates bad energies and wastes time. Furthermore, at the latest neighborhood party I attended I was very happy to learn about all of the new social events being planned and the leadership projects to include youth from around our hood.

After great initial problems with then-"Compliance Officer," and a very hard battle with certain members of the FHHOA "Architectural Review Committee" and board, who insisted our house was a different color despite a lengthy presentation that our emergency siding repair and repainting was done completely in good faith, good taste, and wholly appropriate and accepted by our neighbors... Half the FHHOA board was sensible, supportive, not petty, logical, and frankly addressed the compliant with the law. Reason prevailed ultimately. Since then, the "Compliance Officer" volunteer was fired, his position eliminated, all FHHOA official requests now have an appropriate, professional, responsible tone and new, young families with class and taste, but open minds are now adding a fresh face to the community. The FHHOA board learned lessons from its bully tactics (repaint in the winter, after a $100k emergency siding repair job *immediately* after purchase, while the streets were unplowed and impassable? Priorities?). The adults on the FHHOA board prevailed, the neighborhood has positive leadership instead of a strange, aggressive person demanding "compliance," and we are happy with the direction of both the new owners and FHHOA staff. Thank you. That's all we expected in the first place. The HOA nightmare story ended well and this community is growing, developing, and becoming a real neighborhood of families. Wonderful. Thank you FHHOA members who sided with us and took a stand for common sense.