Davis Lake Fitness Room Review

UPDATE:  July 31, 2012
The Davis Lake fitness room has a new-to-it TV.  Funny to celebrate the minimum, but we will. 

Davis Lake Fitness Room

I have been trying to spend some time working out at the Davis Lake Club House fitness room to improve my well being and take advantage of all the dues I am paying to the Davis Lake Homeowners Association to take care of all the common property amenities.  The fitness room is located in the basement of the Davis Lake Club House 1000 Davis Lake Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28269.  Entrance to the fitness room is at pool level on the lower back side of the club house - not very intuitive since there are no clear signs.

Do check out the fitness room sign-in sheet, it has hilarious suggestions, complaints on the general lack of attention and upkeep with the fitness room.  Former Davis Lake Board member Tom Wolf has even wrote on the sign up sheet telling people to quit complaining and do something about the poor condition of the fitness room.  Sadly, Tom Wolf is just the type of person who usually sits on the Davis Lake Board, not very good customer service.

I think that is what former Board member Tom Wolf is failing to see, the homeowners pay a fee for a service for the Davis Lake Board Homeowners/Community Association, the Board has a fiduciary duty to the members and I think people are wondering why the amenities are in such poor condition.  There are many examples of money better spent, like the redundant street sign memorials that cost a reported $35k+ a pop.

 

The Davis Lake fitness room is looking pretty sad, although I am not sure if it ever looked pristine.  The floors are dirty and the smell of musty mold is strong.  I am assuming the air quality is not the greatest while I am huff and puffing in the basement fitness room.  There is one floor fan, the same model that is sold at Home Depot (I hope they bought it at Charlotte's own Lowe's Companies and supported the home town folks).  The weights are even rusty from the humidity in the fitness room.

 The choices of exercise machines is poor, meaning that aren't many and they are a few that don't work properly (hello possible negligence lawsuit).  I have no idea when, if ever, the fitness room was cleaned.  The floors are covered in dirt and general filth.  There was no vacuum cleaner, I looked.

 Many of you may be thinking "wow, is that an old CRT Tube TV?"  Yes it is.  The worst part is that as of today it is not even there.  The old TV quit, meaning it stopped working entirely and it was removed in the last week or so.  The picture quality was as good as you would think from a Sanyo beauty of this era.

I saw this past week in the Davis Lake Home Owners email that the Davis Lake Board of Directors is asking for someone to donate a TV.  I am guessing after putting in the redundant neighborhood street name monuments recently the Davis Lake Board of Directors tapped out the Home Owner's reserves for a new TV.   I new 32" LCD TV costs less than $400, peanuts to the $600,000 in Home owner dues revenue.

 The best for last: the Davis Lake fitness room is in need of cleaning.  There are papers and dirt tracked in all over the floor.  Dirty fitness equipment is just the start, there are bugs.  Do spiders count as bugs?  For our purposes they do.  I wonder if Highland Creek has better fitness rooms?