726 Waterfall Way

Yes we all feel deeply bad for this family that suffered a fire last week. This was a rental unfortunately the owner has no homeowners insurance to rebuild and likewise the tenants had no renters insurance to replace their valuables that were lost.

Today 10/23 they have been there cleaning up and salvaging what they can and dumping what they can't salvage on the ground around the dumpsters. This is clearly marked that they cannot do this. When asked nicely by another homeowner to remove the garbage they dumped on the ground including a mattress and chair they became irate, they claim they have permission from the HOA to do this. We checked and were told they called Kuester and asked for permission to leave their unneeded furniture outside the dumpster and were told no. A few miles down the road is a County drop off site where they could easily take all this unwanted stuff and drop it off with no problem.

This case we fell is egregious they called for permission and were told no, they moved all these items during a weekday when the county site was open, they had vehicles large enough to carry these items to the county site, and than were asked to correct this, but instead of being good neighbors got ugly about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR_ndtcHbvw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m2RieO2JTs

And in case you missed it here is a link to the Lake Wylie Pilot article about the fire.

We know the fire was started by a female cooking on a grill to close to the house

After a search of York County Court Records reveals the female living at 726 Waterfall Way Christie Filomena Johnson has several pending criminal charges against her all filed earlier this month including LITTERING, Driving with a suspended license, her license is suspended due to a DUI,  and she also has a pending charge of Criminal Domestic Violence. 

In the last 3 years she has been charged with 3 separate DUI's a Disorderly Conduct, and habitual traffic offender. 

This leads to some interesting questions 1) Was alcohol abuse possibly a contributing factor to the fire. and 2) Was Ms. Johnson even legally allowed to be at the residence of the time of the fire. Normally when you are arrested for Criminal Domestic Violence upon arrest the court issues a restraining order to ban you from returning to your residence with the victim in the case, and from being around the victim or having contact with them in any way. Was Ms. Johnson violating this court order at the time of the fire? 

The Dumpster Yet Again

1) The walk through gate has been broken and cannot close this has been this way for 2 weeks now and no one has come to fix it.

2) for the second week in a row, either Metrolina Maintenance Group has come out and charged us for clearing the dumpster area, or they just haven't shown up at all because the same garbage is still on the ground since last week.

3) Waste Management of Gastonia came this morning to empty the dumpsters but one is still half full, so they are not doing what they are paid for, we have noticed the last few weeks, that after Waste Management comes, they are not completely emptying the dumpsters, and this is becoming a regular problem.

Sow how long before our Board of Directors and Kuester Management Take care of theses issues? When we figure out how to make a poll we will put one up for all you homeowners to vote on!!!!

Garbage Everywhere!

It would appear that Waste Management did not empty the dumpsters yesterday (Friday) like they normally do, it is Saturday morning and the dumpsters appear to be halfway full, which is unusual if they did just empty them yesterday.

To make matters worse a homeowner left a grill and several garbage bags outside the dumpster, now my first guess was that the homeowner sent their kid to dump their garbage and the kid could not lift the bags into the dumpster, but there is no way a kid could have brought the grill down to the dumpster area.

We have edited this post, removing the information on the homeowner who is in Phase 1 and did send their child back out to clean up the mess, they did a halfway decent job at cleaning it up, but this is a reminder to all homeowners, if your kids are young they may need help at the dumpster, and if they leave your trash outside the dumpster you can still be fined the $100 from the HOA.

We do not know if the same homeowner left the grill or not, there just is no way of knowing unless someone saw who put it in there, and if you did see who left it please email us or call Kuester Management.