Where a key comes from
The management office — Pernicano Realty & Management, Inc., the firm the board employs to run this place. The March/April 2026 newsletter gives the route for keys and permits alike: contact management by email “with your request and provide your address with a unit letter.”
- Who each person there is, and what they can actually decide
- The office address and hours, if you are bringing a check in person
The Rules say keys “have been issued to each unit”, which is true and not much help to a buyer whose seller never handed one over. Replacements are what the price below is for.
What it costs, and why two numbers are live
Every figure the Association has published says fifty dollars:
| Where | What it says |
|---|---|
| Rules, pool rules preamble | “Replacement keys are available from the Management agent, at a cost of $50.00 per key (costs are subject to change).” |
| Rules, pool rule D | “Lost keys must be reported and a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) will be charged for replacement.” |
| March/April 2026 newsletter | “Pool keys cost = $50.00 each, payable by check / money order.” |
Asked directly, in writing, on 31 August 2026, the Association’s operations manager quoted half that:
You can purchase a pool key from our office. You can mail in a check or money order or bring one in for $25.00.
The Rules’ own “costs are subject to change” makes a lower price unremarkable in itself. What is worth knowing is that both figures are live, and the one an owner can find on their own says double. If you are quoted $50, the $25 quote exists and is in writing.
And $25.00 is what was charged. The same owner mailed a check for $25.00. The office confirmed receiving it on 8 September 2026, mailed the key two days later, and nobody asked for the other twenty-five dollars.
That is one owner and one transaction, so it does not make $25 the price for everyone — a comment in the owners’ Facebook group describes paying $50 in person, on a date nobody has recorded. What we can say is that $25 was quoted in writing, paid, and accepted. If you have bought a key, what you were charged and when is worth saying out loud — two dated answers would turn this from two anecdotes into a price and the date it moved.
A check is accepted. Asked whether payment had to be a money order, the same reply was “Yes a check or money order.” Comments in the owners’ Facebook group had described money orders only.
How to pay, and who to
One owner bought a key this way across August and September 2026. Two of these four steps appear in no governing document, no newsletter and no budget packet, which is the reason they are written down here at all.
- Email the management office with your address and unit letter — the route the March/April 2026 newsletter gives for keys and permits alike.
- Make the check payable to Pernicano Realty & Management — the managing agent, not the Association. Nothing published names a payee. A check made out that way was accepted on 8 September 2026; a check to Jamacha Greens Homeowners Association has not been tried, so this is what is known to work rather than what is required.
- Mail it or bring it in. Both were offered — the office hours are here.
- They will mail the key to you. You do not have to pick it up. The Rules and the newsletter both stop at the management office — the offer to mail it came from the office itself, unprompted, and the key went out first-class on the day it was promised.
Keep your own record. Nothing the Association has published states what a key is made payable to or what it was sold for, and the emails that closed this sale name neither figure. If you buy one, your own cleared check may be the only record of what you paid.
It took this owner forty days, from a first email on 4 August to the key in the box on 13 September — twenty-six of them with no reply at all, until he wrote a second time. That is one owner’s experience and not a schedule. If yours goes quiet, what a written request does and how to make one is the next thing to read.
Fees cannot exceed cost
Civil Code § 5600(b) prohibits an association from imposing a fee that exceeds the amount necessary to defray the costs for which it is levied. Key charges are subject to that rule like any other.
Source: Rules and Regulations, revised January 2011, pool rules, from the verified transcription; March/April 2026 community newsletter; email from the Association's operations manager to an owner, 31 August 2026; email thread between an owner and the management office, 8 to 10 September 2026; an owner's own record of the check he wrote, and the envelope the key arrived in, 13 September 2026. Civil Code § 5600.