I agree with everything you said, but just so you know, here is another idea about this: install a "trailcam" that instead is aimed at security e.g. thisfickman wrote:Our neighborhood considered installing a commercial camera solution to curtail occasional vandalism at our pool.
http://www.reconyx.com/product/SC950-Hy ... nce-Camera
Less than a grand. The only maintenance required is once a year you replace the batteries, unless you have a power source nearby, then there is NO maintenance. The cam watches 24/7 and records any motion in the area to an SD card. When the SD card fills, it erases the oldest captures and keeps on recording.
The joy of this system is that you really don't need to think about it until there is an incident of some kind. Then you pull the SD card and look.
The bad part of any "neighborhood" system is that someone has to take responsibility for it, but presumably if you have an HOA then the directors assume that responsibility.