In complaining the other night about health problems, age problems and computer problems, I completely forgot the main point of bringing all of this up in the same post. It was a way of directing you to one of the funniest commentaries on old age that I’ve ever seen. It was a speech to the Conference on Aging done by a well known California weatherman.
You may end up with some laughter-related medical problems of your own.
North Carolina is certainly a state where the HOA system has gotten way out of control. Fortunately, outspoken advocates like Ole Madsen (HEAR4NC.org) are articulating the insanity that’s disrupting the lives of so many homeowners around the country.
When you buy into an HOA, you’re essentially pledging all your personal assets to a group of partners, most of whom you’ve never met. Your assets become the de facto assets of a non-profit corporation which is potentially subject to liability lawsuits, damage from natural disasters, poor workmanship by developers, frivolous legal actions by overreaching board members, embezzlement by board officers and management companies. That’s a crazy kind of partnership, but it’s one that tens of millions of Americans have blindly accepted. And it’s one where HOA law firms are bathing in the mythical pot-of-gold.
On this blog we rant and rave about the alarming loss of Constitutional rights in our covenant controlled communities. 65 million people have moved into these neighborhoods having no idea how arbitrary and illegal these petty dictatorships can be.
In tonight’s blog and link I’m going to stray way, way over the line and suggest that anyone concerned about the dramatic loss of our 240 year old Constitutional Republic watch a documentary that was published on YouTube a year ago.
I just finished taping a TV interview in Denver on the future of Homeowners Associations. The host generally agreed with me that a financial tidal wave is coming that will slam into the nation’s housing market. It will begin with a collapse of the U.S. mortgage industry and HOAs will be the first to be decimated. With the unprecedented amount of federal debt, the ending of quantitative easing, Japan’s weak-kneed attempt to begin its own form of quantitative easing, Russia vowing to outlaw circulation of the U.S. dollar, China’s weakening international trade, a U.S. stock market trading (weakly) at all-time highs, threats of war in Ukraine, Iran, Syria, North Korea, the US/Mexico border, former Communist leaders predicting a return to leadership in East Germany. All the signals for world-wide financial disruption are there.
Ah, Barbara Holland, how we love thee! Ms. Holland, who writes a column in the real estate section of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, complains about a recent guest blog that lists some of the complaints against her: One is that she gets paid for writing her newspaper column which is massively biased in favor of Homeowners Associations.
