This might be breaking news: California is having a terrible drought! And Fran Paxton is trying to do her part to reduce water consumption for outdoor use.
Using her ingenuity, Ms. Paxton created landscaping using mint that requires little water. It even earned her a rebate on her landscaping from the local water district.
But the Twin Creeks HOA board in San Ramon demands she replace it with sod! Until she does they are fining her $50 per month.
In steps attorney, Micheal Mau who says the HOA could be violating the California law. He’s going to help Ms. Paxton settle this mess.
Yes, once again we’re talking about embezzling. I could, and probably should do a story a day on how board members are embezzling from Homeowners Associations. There are so many creative ways to steal from your neighbors. But a woman arrested in Broward County just forged the names of other board members and wrote herself checks from the HOA bank account.
Michelle Changer-Coe was the president of the Mainlands Seven Homeowners Association. She’s in jail facing charges that she stole nearly $200,000 from her HOA.
One of our frequent contributors to this site used to be a researcher for a conservative think tank in Colorado. He says he recently dropped by the Republican booth at the Louisville town fair and made a point of asking opinions about HOAs. He asked about Captain Michael Clauer, the Texas man whose HOA home was illegally seized and sold while he was assigned to a war zone in the Middle East. It’s absolutely a violation of federal law for an overseas serviceman to be treated like that.
August 15, 2014 will be a day Frank and Amy Taddeo will celebrate for a long time. Their cheap condo investment in Meridian Condos paid them millions in the courtroom, thanks to the stupidity of American Invsco and Koval Flamingo!
The two companies converted apartments into condos and spiffed them up. But the floor tiles they used illegally exceeded the load bearing limits of the structure. Lawsuits for breach of contract have been flying. Fortunately, there haven’t been any building collapses.
But where were the city engineers? City inspectors? Heck, even an interior designer would have questioned that much weight being added to the flooring.
Here’s more background to the enactment of Arizona’s SB 1482 which will profoundly impact homeowners across the state.
You need to look no further than the “stakeholders” of the bill: The Arizona Association of Realtors, CAI and the Arizona Association of Community Managers, all of which have formed an alliance here in Arizona.
This was a bunch of individual bills all log-rolled into one. Individually, each one of these groups would never have let most of this pass.
The CAI convinced the Arizona Association of Realtors “that if we all work together, everyone can get what they want.” You know, except for the homeowners living in HOAs.
