It's the property management who aren't enforcing the rules. The board acts behind the scenes and chose this company because they're pliable and lack integrity. Can they be banned or have their license revoked? They're in clear collusion with the corrupt board members which I understand would be harder to prove without access to their private communications.
The rules are clear but the property management's procedures are designed so that the rules can't be enforced in practice.
Rule: No short term rentals. All leases must be for 12 months or more. Black and white. It's in the declaration.
In Practice: Security is instructed to ignore people they don't recognize, any resident can let anyone stay in their unit. Family members, friends, etc. Impossible to prove. Even when you show them the unit on AirBnB, they send a letter to all residents reminding them that short term rentals are prohibited which of course goes ignored. When I inform them that there is a new occupant different than the one that was there last week, they refuse to verify that the occupant is the person on the lease.
Rule: No smoking in units or anywhere on the property including on balconies.
In Practice: When someone smokes, you call the security desk, they take 10-30 minutes to go check the unit. By then the smoker is obviously no longer smoking. You ask them to speak to the resident: we don't bother residents unless there is an ongoing issue observed at that moment — which they refused to act on in real time. No cameras allowed in the corridors, stairs or on balconies. If I catch the smoking with my phone, the footage is deemed inadmissible to property management because it's a privacy invasion (It's not, if I can see them from my unit, then there's no expectation of privacy).
