Chapter 5 - THE HOA HAD NEVER VOTED ON WHAT CORRINE CLAIMED
Discovery began.
That was where Corrine’s story started to fray.
Hannah demanded the board minutes authorizing the widening project. The HOA produced none. Corrine had emailed the landscaping vendor directly. No formal homeowner vote had approved road expansion on my land.
She had lied when she said, “We voted on this.”
Then we subpoenaed the HOA’s financial records.
Their books showed the annual “Calder access courtesy fee” budget item had existed until Corrine took office. It was deleted the first year of her presidency and replaced with “legal easement research.”
Previous treasurers had not been confused.
They knew the road use depended on permission.
The most useful witness at that stage turned out to be a woman Corrine had bullied off the board the year before: former secretary Linda Havel.
Linda testified that during a planning session Corrine had said, “If we keep paying Calder, we’re admitting he still owns the leverage.”
Linda asked what would happen if the HOA lost access.
Corrine reportedly answered, “We make it too expensive for him to fight.”
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That sentence changed the emotional weather for several Pine Ridge homeowners. This was no longer being framed as a misunderstanding about old road customs.
It was starting to look like a deliberate strategy.
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