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Desert Crest Seniors Ask for Your Help
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Attorneys Specializing in Appellate Practice Needed
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October 12, 2003
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Trevor Sheehy
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With the growth of new concepts of land use and community development, a new level of government, homeowners associations, have been interjected into our legal system.
Seemingly innocuous CC&R's intended to both guide the development and maintain standards, primarily architectural, in new communities, have, as a result of a perplexing combination of individual homeowner pettiness and lust for power and social engineering by courts, created a fertile field ready for the cultivation of legal fees by those inclined to stir the imbroglio, and more sadly brought anger and often despair to those who anticipated easy enjoyment of their hard earned and usually not inexpensive homes.
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Please tell me where the justice is!
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My condo - my first home which I poured my heart and soul into, was illegally foreclosed on by the Condo Home Owners Association
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October 3, 2003
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Mark Taylor
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My condo - my first home which I poured my heart and soul into, was illegally foreclosed on by the Condo Home Owners Association for unpaid fines which to this day I have no clue what the fines were for.
I was never notified, warned, nothing! It was not uncommon for a new rule to be passed by the President who literally took complete control of the HOA, occasionally I would receive notice of the new rule (generally something quite ridiculous) and many times the new rules would solely apply to a single person/owner.
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The HOA Citizen newsletter monthly notice - The October 2003 issue contains the following articles:
• Florida, California move forward
• Able to leave HOA for non-HOA home
• Social responsibility
• Fiduciary responsibilty
• CAI revises mission
• Social movement
• Democracy in America
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Assembly Member Patricia Bates Works to Solve Problems in California Homeowner Association
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AB 512 restores important homeowner rights
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September 30, 2003
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AHRC News Services
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AB 512 is an important step in repairing the problems created by the deeply flawed Davis Stirling Act. (Gray Davis chose the leading lobbyist of the homeowner association industry, Katherine Rosenberry, to write this landmark legislation. It was analogous to choosing the tobacco industry to write legislation regulating tobacco.)
The central provision of AB 512 is to give some measure of power to homeowners when they feel that their board of directors have made rules that are unwise, onerous, capricious, or downright against common sense. 5% of the homeowners can call a special meeting and then overturn the board's decision by majority vote.
Patricia Bates deserves great credit for getting this bill past for at least 3 reasons:
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WHO WILL HOUSING CONSUMERS ELECT FOR CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR?
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Will it be "The Terminator"?
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September 29, 2003
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Ann Roth
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URGENT MESSAGE TO CALIFORNIA HOUSING CONSUMERS who currently live in and/or are considering buying into homeowner association (HOA) type housing.
Which California recall candidate will help you protect your home and preserve your equity?
Will it be "The Terminator"?
Let's ask Arnold if he has the muscle and guts to help protect the American dream of home ownership.
HOW? By repealing and making illegal what has been referred to as "foreclosure by neighbor" provisions written into Gray Davis' Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act and/or homeowner association covenants, conditions and restrictions (CCR's).
The Davis-Stirling CID Act is also known as the Davis-Stealing Act. It is the reason many HOA housing consumers have voted to recall Gray (skies) Davis. These same homeowners want to elect a candidate who will denounce the HOA legalized housing scams and help to return the American dream of home ownership back to its rightful owner - the homeowner.
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Florida To Hold Town Hall Meetings on Condominium Association Governance on September 24th, 25th and 26,2003
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Complaints about lack of financial disclosures of maintence dues and special accessments, fraud, and reports about wrong doing by boards spur government hearings
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September 22, 2003
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Julio Robaina - Florida House Representative
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On September 10, 2003, Florida Speaker of the House Johnny Byrd (R) Byrd Representative Julio Robaina, (R-South Miami) as chairman of the Select Committee on Condominium Association Governance.
"Thousands of Floridians all across this state live in condominiums," said Representative Robaina. "This Select Committee will work diligently to analyze how current laws affect condominium governance and condominium residents."
The Select Committee on Condominium Association Governance will take public testimony and review current laws regulating the governance of condominium associations to identify any improvements in those laws that might be recommended. The Select Committee will issue a report prior to the beginning of next session outlining any recommendations for legislation consistent with the committee's conclusions.
In a statement to AHRC, Florida House Representative Robaina's office reported there has been many complaints by homeowners on the lack of financial disclosures on maintenence dues and special accessments, fraud and other wrong doing by association boards. The Committee will begin the first of it's Town Hall Meetings on September 23, 24, 25, 2003 in Miami, Florida.
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Government need to look into foreclosures under the Davis-Stirling Act.
Yes, flying a flag is important, but Gov. Gray Davis and other government officials need to be looking to change the "foreclosure without due process of the courts" which he put into the law through the Davis-Stirling Act. Davis signed this bill, which allows homes in homeowner associations to be taken away from them and then sold for as little as $1,000.
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The HOA Citizen newsletter monthly notice.
The Sept 2003 issue contains the following articles:
* AHRC leads the way
* Seniors to pay private for-profit fees?
* Do did the AOL poll say?
* An Advocate offers solutions
* Unconsctionable contracts and public policy
* Need to influence public policy
* How should HOAs be?
You can download your copy from the link below.
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National Public Radio Will Host a Discussion on Homeowner Association Issues
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A Labor Day Los Angeles Times article creates greater awareness of legislation and issues
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September 2, 2003
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Yesterday's headline article by the Los Angeles Times Staff Writers Daniel Yi and Jis-Rui Chong titled "Bills Target Homeowner Associations" has sparked a great deal of public interest on homeowner association legislation and issues..
After reading the article, Larry Mantle from National Public Radio decided to host a discussion on homeowner association issues and legislation on his show "A...
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Deception as Homeowner Association public policy
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Why isn't our government telling homeowners the truth?
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August 29, 2003
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George K. Staropoli
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Prvtgov.org
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Governmental refusal to warn home buyers of all the consequences of purchasing an HOA home represents a public policy of deception
Homebuyers are not being informed about: 1. the loss of homestead exemption 2. the lack of government intervention and enforcement when HOA boards violate state laws 3. the lack of a separation of powers and checks and balances that permit autocratic government to flourish 4. the lack of an independent election commission to validate elections 5. there are no standard documents approved or required by the state 6. the HOA attorney will not come to his aid in a dispute regarding board violations of state law of its governing documents -- he must use his own money. 7. he has surrendered many of his property rights to a communal decision process that can obligate him to additional financial burdens without his approval. 8. the CC&Rs are a legal binding contract that can and often does result in financial consequences in the event of nonpayment of assessments or unsubstantiated fines.
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Marshal Gilbert is a popular radio talk show host in Palm Springs. His show airs Monday through Friday from 7a - 9a.
His blunt, no-holds-barred style is powered by a profound social conscience. One of his special concerns is elder abuse. He is on the Human Rights Commission and Elder Abuse Commission in Palm Springs, and works closely with Bob Doyle, sheriff of Riverside County, who calls elder...
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City of Dana Point Turns a Deaf Ear on Resident's Plight
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Raising Rents a Concern for Fixed Income Renters
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August 13, 2003
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Janice English
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A ninety-one unit mobile home park exists in Dana Point on Del Obispo, north of Pacific Coast Highway. The residents have been trying to entice the City of Dana Point to work with a local not-for-profit to buy the park and stabilize he rents.
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