Mark the date on your calender and plan to be at the Caribe Owners Party on November 5th in the C 100 space. There will be a LSU / Alabama football party and get together to watch the game. (game time is undetermined at this time) Our owners from Louisiana are bringing it to Caribe Resort, “The Cajun Way”. They are cooking up the best Seafood Andouille Sausage gumbo this side of Louisiana! Add in a few Boudin Balls and the party is on! If you plan on attending, bring a side dish and we will have plenty of set ups. BYOB. To help or add to the party contact Max Himmel at mhimmel@himmels.com.

laissez les bon temps roules!

Caribe IT department will be installing wireless routers in all units. These will be installed in your soho panel and be out of site. A note will be left in your unit once this is complete.

-No password required because each session is private and isolated from other users.
-Most users will use the Wi-Fi in their own unit, but any other Wi-Fi with strong signal may be used
-Contact IT, at 22700, if your devices needs to communicate with each other so that a password can be added and isolation will be turned off.
-No Wi-Fi units will be allowed to operate unprotected by either private isolation or password
-Due to possible secuity issues open routers will be blocked.

On May 14th Caribe Resort will be hosting the first annual Orange Beach Wine Festival. Make plans to be here and sample over 100 wines from over 40 vinyards. For those wines you fall in love with, there will be wines available to purchase by the bottle or case at wholesale prices. Cost to enter is $45.00 per head and this will allow you endless wine tasting in the outdoor tent between Cobalt and Caribe. Outcast Charters will be giving complimentary boat rides included in your ticket price. Hours are from 11am to 6pm. In addition, the event will have live music and a classic car show. Come for this event and enjoy the best Caribe Resort, Cobalt and Outcast Charters has to offer.

This will be one of the best events of the year so don’t miss out!!!

For more information go to www.orangebeachwinefestival.com. Tickets may be purchased online and will be limited.

Just a quick update on the results of the annual COA meeting held February 26th. The annual budget was approved as presented and the board answered questions in relation to several topics that the owners brought up. The amendment to the condo docs changing the minimum rental stay from (1) day to (3) days did pass with a majority. The board has completed the filing of this amendment with the probate court so it is now official.

Have a great spring break!

To all owners,

This weekend we held the annual Caribe Resort homeowner’s meeting. The meeting was very positive and we did have a quorum.

The two big issues on the agenda were the budget approval and an amendment to change the docs. Both passed as presented.

There will be no increase in dues to the homeowners again this year. As a note in the nine years of operation the COA has only increased dues once due to the increase in insurance and has never had an assessment.

The amendment to the docs will change the minimum stay for a rental guest from 1 night to 3 nights. Hopefully this change will help owners with refinancing their units and new purchasers find financing.

Larry Wireman has moved all the houses that were to the east of tower D and eventually will have plans for the last remaining house closest to the road.

Have a great Mardi gras!

By now you have recieved your notification that the annual homeowners meeting is taking place on February 26th 2011 in the D 100 space. Lunch will be served at noon and the meeting will begin at 1:00pm.

If you are unable to attend please fax your proxy to 251.980.9055 or 251.980.9035. We are to ensure a quorum to conduct the meeting and will begin calling later in the week to veryify who is coming and secure the proxies.

Hope to see you there!

Just a quick note to let all our owners know that the annual meeting will be held at 1pm on February 26th at 1pm with lunch being served at noon. There will be a formal notification along with an agenda sent out prior to the meeting in accordance with the condo docs.

Construction is underway with the new addition of Outcast Charters located between Caribe Resort and Cobalt Restaurant. Pilings have been set and we anticipate the building will be in operation by Spring Break. Outcast Charters will have boat rentals, jet skis, parasails and charter fishing.

Lastly, we are in the process of conducting a deep cleaning on the parking garages and have leased a commercial street and parking lot cleaner to scrub these areas. We hope to put a little shine on these areas and reduce the amount of dirt and dust that is tracked into the buildings. There may be a need to restrict parking in certain areas to accomplish this so please be aware this for the next few weeks.

We are having a great start to the new year and many of our Winter guests have arrived and are enjoying Caribe Resort. The Caribe Owners Association would like to remind you that the owner parking passes that were issued at the end of November need to be affixed to your lower driver’s side windshield. If you recieved your statement for November there were two stickers and a letter instructing you what to do. Over the past month there were several cars towed due to improper parking. Please ensure your family and guests are also aware of this.

Have a safe and Happy New Year!

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Dear Caribe Owner,

We know that most of you have already moved your email account from the Caribe Resort service. However, for the few remaining users we would like to inform you that the free service will be ending on Friday November 19th.. It has been a pleasure providing you this service over the years but our network is going through some security upgrades and we will no longer be able to provide email to anyone other than staff accounts.

So that you will have plenty of time to make your changes we have provided the following information:

• Our IT staff suggests creating a FREE Google email account. This is easily done by typing Google.com or gmail.com into your browser You will notice a “sign In” area on the top right. If you click on that section you will see a “Create Account” button. The remaining steps are self explanatory.

• Once you have created your Google email account, go back into your Caribe email and use the “select all” feature. Once the emails are highlighted, forward them all to your new Google email account.

• Please keep in mind that emails remaining on the system on Friday the 19th will be lost.

We apologize for any inconvenience. The FREE Google service will actually allow you greater email storage and can be accessed more easily from your smart phones.

Thank you for your continued support and we wish you a Happy Holiday Season!

If you have any questions please call 923-2228