Our Good Buddy Greg Chumbley is at it again!
This guy must be a living nightmare to Abusive HOA Boards!
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When it comes to collection of HOA liens, it’s all about the money!
guest blog by Deborah Goonan
The latest controversy in HOA Land: in Nevada – and by extension 21 other states with similar legal status – the HOA super priority lien can now extinguish an outstanding mortgage backed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).
It’s ironic, because when CAI was founded back in 1973, it was with cooperation from FHA. Their agreement to back mortgages in common interest developments was the glue that held disparate CAI interests together.
But after years of mortgage deregulation, followed by out-of-control real estate price increases, and the ensuing mortgage default crisis, things have certainly changed.
Laughably Unconstitutional
Lots of HOAs have tried to ban expressions of Free Speech. Some have discovered, to their chagrin, how expensive it is to flout the Constitution by forbidding campaign signs, religious symbols in windows or Mezuzahs on door jambs. In one famous case an elderly gentleman who stopped on his lawn to talk to two elderly women was cited for holding an unlawful assembly. Cases like that go to the Supreme Court where the lawyers make hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Another Delicious HOA Indictment
I suppose it’s bad manners to dance on someone else’s grave, but if I had good manners I would never have started this website. But this one is too good not to note.
Another woman has been indicted in the federal racketeering case against a dozen Nevada Homeowners Associations. There’ve been about forty federal indictments already, with most of the suspects pleading guilty in exchange for their testimony in court. Stephanie Liane Markham has the honor of being the latest to be indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice. Seems she’s accused of lying to the feds about the fact she only had a one percent interest in a condo at the time she ran for a seat on the board.
In A Million Years, Never Thought I’d See This Happen
Colorado is a ‘cool’ state. The University of Colorado was named by Newsweek Magazine as the nation’s ultimate party school. People are healthy, alcohol abuse is low, but this is the first state that legalized recreational marijuana. There are hundreds of ‘maryjane’ stores all over the state.
In Colorado politics, as you can imagine, the heavy population centers are solid blue, the agricultural areas are red. And about the only thing that causes riots and tear gas battles is when crowds of young people are celebrating an end-of-season victory by the Broncos, the Nuggets or the Avalanche. On those nights, damage to store windows and police cars can run into the millions. A ‘cool’ state with an edge.
