Southshore Bay HOA homeowners' Assn news
(for DR Horton, Lennar (Medley) and Holiday homes, Wimauma.)
The SSB HOA board is still run by the Metro Development LLC appointees who have not historically been transparent. On December 29, 2025, the SSB HOA board and the association managers from Kai Connected (formerly Breeze) held the first public meeting with residents in over two years!
Recap: Overdue 2025 meeting
- On December 29, 2025, three developer board members attended by zoom during the holiday week (although the remote option was not afforded to homeowners.) About 40-50 homeowners were in attendance despite it being a holiday week.
- A draft 2026 budget showing 2025 variance was distributed, followed by homeowner questions, but it was announced that the budget couldn't be finalized and there would be no board vote on the budget yet. No budget was approved.
- Despite being listed on the agenda, there was also not a membership vote to elect a Resident Director. 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 was warranted. The list of 2025 directors can be found here:
- The board did approve the minutes, with modifications, of the prior open board meeting in 2024. That information should be available on the Vantaca portal now.
- A follow up meeting was to be scheduled in a "few weeks". (It took place on March 6, 2026 and rubberstamped budget above.)
Sunshine Needed
For 2025, we homeowners were all paying nearly $1000/yr ($236.30 quarterly) in assessment fees to SSB HOA but were we getting the services promised by the Board and community managers Kai Connnected LLC (a.k.a Breeze)? (Now that's increased for 2026, retroactively. See below.)
The Budget - initially neglected for 9 months, then increased disproportionately based on number of new homes.
The southside developments to our HOA (which we didn't vote on) will increase the number of homes from 1419 homes to 2039.
The addition of the new southside homes and rentals is a 43% increase in homes
(as well as a longer wait until the HOA is under homeowners' control.)
Yet the budget is increasing by 50% -- when we should be getting economies of scale instead.
- There was no official approved 2025 budget so the year to year variances are unclear. Does 2025 represent what was spent or a proposed budget?
- In 2024, when SSB HOA and Breeze/Kai decided to simply rollover the 2024 budget "until the 2025 Budget has been approved." for three entire quarters! Meanwhile , Kai Connected (formerly Breeze) was sued in court for withholding documents for the CDD that they also managed (they've since been replaced there). There is even a complaint against Breeze/Kai with Florida's DBPR licensure board. Their budget apparently also inaccurately reported the number of Medley homes on which the budget was based.
- The proposed budget presents the 2025 to 2026 increases as "Monthly variance per home" to give the illusion it's not a lot of money.
- For example, they introduced $15,000 for unspecified "Contingency" which is shown as "only 61¢ per home per month." (But that's still $15 grand for who-knows-what! 😕)
- Why was Kai/Breeze still paid $8,333 per month for a dedicated CAM who had left and was not replaced for 4 months?
- Evidently our budget even subsidizes a private company (Metro Lagoon) to help pay for their private security, gates, etc Is that why the DR Horton interior's common areas beyond Lagoon Shore Blvd. are being neglected? Medley already pays for its own gates.
- Where are the audited financial statements required by §720.303(7)?.
2024-2025 Retrospective
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.
During that time, it appears that our community's master plan was changed (without notice to homeowner or buyers) to maintain corporate developer control. It appears that 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. Add to that the addition of the new southside homes and rentals increased the total HOA size to 2039.