Southshore Bay HOA -  Professional management or maladministration?

Dec. 29, 2025 - RECAP

 Kai and the master SSB HOA board held the first public meeting with residents in over two years! 

• However, the association managers from Kai announced that the budget couldn't be finalized and that there would be no board vote on the budget yet.  Three board members attended by zoom (although the remote option was not afforded to homeowners.)
  
• About 40-50 homeowners were in attendance and asked finance questions yet no budget could be approved.
• They announced that late fees would be waived until the budget could be resolved.
• Despite being listed on the agenda, there was also not a membership vote to elect a Resident Director as planned.
• The CAM indicated that the board may appoint a replacement, however, the prior director only had a one-year term so it seems like a new member election is warranted.
• Both issues will be covered in a future to-be-scheduled meeting.
• If you receive another General Proxy form SSB HOA/Kai, read this blog post to understand the difference between a Limited and General Proxy forms.
• You may have received an email invitation from Kai about their new Vantaca portal (although there is not much information there yet.)

SUNSHINE NEEDED

• We homeowners are all paying nearly $1000/yr ($236.30 quarterly) in assessment fees to SSB HOA but are we getting the services promised by the Board and community managers Kai Connnected LLC (a.k.a Breeze)? 
• The SSB HOA board is still run by the Metro Development LLC appointees who have not historically been transparent.

2024-2025 RECAP 

• The SSB HOA didn't meet publicly with homeowners for an entire year in violation of Florida Statutes §720. (See 720.306(2))
• We were not mailed an announcement of Annual Meeting in 2024 per FL §720.306(5).  (By contrast, one was mailed for the 2023 annual meeting.)
• There was no election held for Resident Director in 2024-2025, yet the prior term was one year so it has evidently expired without a new election. 
• During that time, it appears that our community's master plan was changed (without notice to homeowner or buyers) to maintain corporate developer control. The Skymor rental units, now called "plotted townhomes", were originally shown as individually-owned Villas per the Developer's Master Community Plan.
• Voting rights: the Developer (as 'Class B member') already gets 3 votes to our 1 homeowner ('Class A') vote until the homes are sold, per our Declaration.  We will be outnumbered unless Medley homeowners partner with DR Horton homeowners. 

Keep updated on the overdue Southshore Bay Master HOA Annual Meeting on this site (or their Vantaca portal if it's posted).