Click here for the entire post. Summary: While reviewing Hideaway’s website several months ago, we saved screenshots of the Board meeting pages. At that time, closed-meeting summaries for 2025 and 2026 were not visible. More recently, Board President Dewayne Cady told us those summaries were available on the website. When we checked again, they were…
Click here for the entire post. Summary: Hideaway’s open board meeting minutes are not supposed to be word-for-word transcripts, and I do not expect them to capture every sentence spoken during a meeting. My concern is whether the Board-approved record gives members a fair and reasonably accurate picture of the important issues that were actually…
On September 30, 2026, I published an article about something I found in the Texas Department of Public Safety’s private-security licensing system. At the time I checked the state system, Hide-A-Way Lake Club, Inc., license B02065, was listed with the status “Insurance Suspension.” I took a screenshot of that status and included it in the…
Click here for the entire post. Please note Hideaway has updated their insurance so it now shows current as of 10/2/26. Summary: Texas law requires licensed private-security companies to maintain the required insurance documentation with DPS. While reviewing Hideaway’s private-security licensing information, I found that the license for Hide-A-Way Lake Club, Inc. (license B02065) was…
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Click here for the entire post Summary: After our dispute with Hideaway leadership escalated, we submitted a formal certified request for HOA records. The very next business day after the HOA received that request, a document signed by Board President Dewayne Cady was recorded with Smith County. The filing raised serious questions because its language…
Hi, I’m Matt, and my wife is Chrissy. We’re a family of five who call Hideaway home. Chrissy and I have been married for 13 years, and together we are raising three amazing kids. Like most families, our lives are busy, imperfect, sometimes chaotic, and filled with the everyday moments that make a place feel…
Click for the Entire Post. Summary: A routine Uber Eats delivery turned into a much larger dispute after Hideaway security stopped the driver for alleged speeding as he left the community. Six days later, a $500 fine appeared on our HOA account, even though the HOA’s own rules gave the nonmember driver 10 days to…
Click here for Entire Post Summary: In November 2025, our family appeared before the Hideaway Board to challenge the $500 fine placed on our account after an Uber Eats driver was accused of speeding. We had prepared a roughly 30-slide presentation using HOA rules, the traffic fine schedule, body-camera footage, Texas law, photographs, and other…