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…
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…
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…
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…
Click Here For Entire Post. Summary: As questions about Hideaway’s traffic enforcement, finances, and Board decisions grew, we began requesting records so we could better understand how the HOA was operating. We wanted to see the documents behind traffic stops, radar use, security training, fines, financial activity, Board decisions, and the General Manager’s employment contract….
Click here for the entire post. Summary: Questions about Hideaway’s road work and mandatory clubhouse charge come down to one basic issue: when can the Board make members pay more on its own, and when do the bylaws require a member vote? Hideaway’s bylaws treat regular dues and fees, differently than assessments and major capital…
Click here for the entire post. Summary: At Hideaway’s annual membership meeting, members were asked to ratify actions previously taken by the Board of Directors. The announced result was: 62 in favor81 against The ratification failed. But before the vote, we repeatedly asked a basic question: What exactly are members being asked to ratify? We…
Click here for the entire post. Summary: We first learned our membership access had been restricted when our member-lane access stopped working and a Hideaway guard directed us to use the guest lane. At that point, we had not yet received the suspension letter stating that we were past due on our HOA dues. The…