Maybe it’s my one-time Texas roots, but I just keep thinking, “Aren’t Texans smarter than this? How can they keep bashing the handicapped? Don’t they know that breaking federal law can be horribly expensive?”
But Texas HOA board members just keep doing what board members do best; their very worst.
Here’s another HOA kicking around a blind guy. He bought his home because it was just a few steps to the bus. The HOA built a fence that now requires this man to walk a mile to reach the bus stop. The blind fellow, by the way, is a lawyer.
This is a no-brainer lawsuit, which of course will lead to special assessments against all the homeowners.
I’ve linked to this story before, but exposing this kind of person never gets old.
John Carona owns and runs Associa, the largest HOA management firm in the country. Many homeowners have bought into his neighborhoods and long regretted that decision. It’s tough to understand why Texans keep putting him in office.
This politician and his questionable business tactics need to be exposed at every opportunity.
This link should put all sorts of ideas in your mind about how to fix up your failing HOA. If only we could Photoshop our neighborhoods the same way the fashion industry does its models:
36 seconds and “POOF!” Your HOA has no wood rot, no broken sidewalks, no dead tree limbs, dog poop, or peeling paint. Wouldn’t that be amazing?
I actually have seen this very thing being done on real estate websites. Potential buyers are stunned when they walk in and discover the kitchen is laminate, not granite. The pool isn’t out back, but three doors down in the board president’s back yard. And the garage is a single not a triple. And those beautiful multi-colored leaves on the maple tree outside the dining room picture window? That tree doesn’t even exist.
Deception is everywhere. Sadly, it’s becoming an acceptable practice. But somebody always ends up a victim and reality hits like a brick. This kind of deception is happening all across America’s homeowners associations.
Life isn’t being lived like it’s portrayed in the pictures.
Perhaps there’s a fundamental problem in our school system, or maybe Americans are just too apathetic to care, but the video linked below is really quite shocking.
Mark Dice calls himself a political prankster. His latest stunt is handing out a petition to see if people would support the creation of a police state like that in Nazi Germany. The Orwellian police state, Dice said, is needed to keep us all safe.
Did people sign the petition?
As you watch the video below keep asking yourself, “Would Americans really vote themselves into a tyrannical form of government?”
I wrote about this topic in my new book, Neighbors At War: The Creepy Case Against Your Homeowners Association. Some readers were a little skeptical, but the latest study by scientists at MIT and Princeton University seems to back my claim up.
People actually take pleasure in hurting others. Obviously not everybody lacks empathy. But a solid majority of those studied shows that many folks get some kind of a ‘buzz’ when they hurt someone else, especially those they envy.
It’s not the first such study. Others have shown that a vast majority of people would actually hurt other people, even fatally, if put in a position of power.
But this latest study adds interesting information when you look at HOA board members who abuse their positions of power over others.
