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Big Canoe’s 1st Trademark Enforcement Fails – CASE DISMISSED!

August 30, 2026 editor 0

In 2025 the Big Canoe POA launched itself into the “Trademark Business”, purchasing the “Big Canoe” name from Mike Rhodes for an estimated $400,000 + around $150,000 in attorney fees. Then the POA filed a […]

BIG CANOE LAKE PETIT DAM: FOBC Responds to B.S. Geosyntec Email

June 12, 2026 editor 0

BIG CANOE, GA — The defensive machinery of the Big Canoe Property Owners Association (POA) and their multi-million-dollar engineering consultant, Geosyntec, has officially kicked into overdrive. Within 48 hours of our investigative reports documenting the worsening […]

BIG CANOE POA – gets Sued – Again!

June 9, 2026 editor 0

Big Canoe POA just got hit today (June 9, 2026) with a new 12 Page Lawsuit! A visiting Golfer was severely injured on the course when his cart rolled over on a stretch of path […]

BIG CANOE’S LAKE PETIT DAM: Seepage, Sensors, and 20 Years of Maybe

June 8, 2026 editor 0

BIG CANOE, GA — In high-hazard infrastructure management, engineering decisions must be based on hard, objective science. Yet, a look at decades of state-mandated documentation for the Lake Petit Dam reveals a pattern of risk […]

BIG CANOE LAKE PETIT DAM: Official Report Shows Rapidly Worsening Condition!

June 5, 2026 editor 0

BIG CANOE, GA — For years, the Big Canoe Property Owners Association (POA) has maintained a comfortable, expensive narrative regarding the structural integrity of the Lake Petit Dam: the major internal issues are being handled. […]

Big Canoe POA Sues Developer – Opens Huge Can Of Worms

June 4, 2026 editor 0

The Big Canoe POA’s ill advised lawsuit against the Big Canoe Developer has captured a lot of community attention. It has also cracked open what may be the biggest, longest-buried can of worms in Big […]

Big Canoe POA Sues 45 Property Owners + 1 Developer

June 2, 2026 editor 0

Beginning in 2022, during the reign of Scott Auer (as General Manager) and Amy Tropfenbaum (as POA President), the Big Canoe POA launched on a path of Litigation never before seen in this community. They […]

Who Was Eating, Drinking, and Golfing on Big Canoe’s Tab?

April 10, 2026 editor 0

By David Hopkins | BigCanoe.news | April 10, 2026 Big Canoe members may have just uncovered one of the most revealing clues yet about how money disappears inside the POA — and it starts with […]

Big Canoe’s Covenant Collapse: Why the Board is Giving the Largest Voting Bloc a “Free Pass”

March 20, 2026 editor 0

The POA’s Attorney just responded and admitted in writing that the Board knows about a multi-year covenant violation regarding Petit Crest Villas but refuses to act ; and that the Association possesses no board resolutions, […]

Big Canoe: “Grandfathered” Covenant Violations? …or Election Interference?

February 27, 2026 editor 0

The POA Just Blew a Hole in Big Canoe’s Residential Covenants — And Their Own Documents Prove It. The Big Canoe Property Owners Association was asked a simple question: Under what authority is a residential […]