Whether you are for or against the protections of the Second Amendment, this short video of a former soldier and current police officer defending the Second Amendment is unbelievably powerful.
Wait! Before you view this link below, substitute the First Amendment, the Fourth, the Fifth or any of our other Constitutional Freedoms. Our Constitution and the Bill of Rights were created to protect us from government. As we American homeowners keep up our nightmarish slide into ‘government-by-corporation’ we are quickly losing access to any of our Constitutional protections.
Speech? Homeowners Associations constantly restrict it. Religion? In many places HOAs restrict it. Freedom of Assembly? Restricted time after time. Due Process? It doesn’t exist in Homeowners Associations. Restrictions based on against race or disability? The current core of this kind of illegal discrimination is in the heart of the American Homeowners Association Movement.
Of course, the ‘right to contract’ is also embedded into the Constitution. But there are limits to the right to contract. You have, for example, no right to sell yourself or your children into slavery. You have no right to ‘contract’ for a criminal act to be performed.
When it comes to your home and your fundamental privacy, should you really be allowed to contract away the very rights our founders tried to establish? Do yourself a favor and watch the powerful speech linked below.
One of the most bald-faced embezzlers in the country has been told he’ll be spending a little time in prison.
I wrote previously about Chris Barna, who swiped almost a million dollars from the California company where he worked as controller. His firm handles the finances of a number of Homeowners Associations in California. The parent company is Associa, the HOA management firm run by Texas State Senator John Carona.
Earlier this year Barna pleaded guilty to embezzling 980,000 dollars that came out of the accounts of California Homeowners Associations
This week, Barna was sentenced in Federal Court to three years and five months in prison and more than a million dollars in restitution. Judging from past white collar crime cases, though, he’ll only spend part of that time behind bars. And it’s highly doubtful that restitution will ever be made.
Las Vegas is the nation’s home for Organized Crime posing as Homeowners Associations, with more than two dozen felony guilty pleas and nearly a dozen federal criminal trials pending. Las Vegas may have more Homeowners Associations than any other metropolitan city. Las Vegas has so many HOA horror stories that writing a blog like this is almost effortless. Home buyers everywhere are beginning to tell their Realtors, “Don’t show me anything in an HOA!”
Now, here comes a major real estate company saying it’s going into the HOA management business! Hard to believe, but Shelter Realty, Inc. says it’s ‘pleased’ to announce that it’s creating a sister company which will provide management services for Homeowners Associations.
Realtors make their living by being respectable. Realtors live or die on their reputations and client referrals. Of course there are plenty of people living in Nevada Homeowners Associations. But HOA management is a stenchy business with neck-deep corruption. For a realty company to suddenly say it’s going to clean up HOA mismanagement and corruption is beyond laughable.
Our frigid weather and snow here in Colorado reminded me of a video story I did several years ago on a beloved dog. Her name was Glory. And her name was a perfect description of a dog sent to me from Heaven.
Dear Friends: I really don’t won’t to lose any of my regular readers. But it would be irresponsible of me to find a great HOA website and not let you know about it. This is a good one for you to mark and check in with regularly:
