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Nila Ridings on National Radio Show

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My frequent guest blogger, Nila Ridings, is going to be a guest of HOA expert Shu Bartholomew this Saturday. Many of you know Shu as one of the most stalwart Homeowners Rights advocates in the country. Her weekly radio show airs in and around Fairfax, Virginia, but better yet, she broadcasts on the Internet so she has a national and even international audience. Shu interviews the top figures in the fight against abuse by rogue Homeowners Associations. And, indeed, Nila Ridings is one of the nation’s top fighters against this disingenuous, tyrannical and corrupt movement. 

Nila is famous in Kansas as the leader of a group of about twenty people who fought for a new law in Kansas that reigns in some of the monstrous actions of rogue HOA boards. During that time, Nila was nicknamed ‘The General’ by her associates. Her story is a great one. 

Shu Bartholomew’s show is called “On The Commons” and it can be heard live or through a downloaded podcast where you can listen at your convenience.

One warrior interviewing another warrior. It promises to be another great show!

http://onthecommons.net/

Be there or be square!

 

Turnberry Board Members Get The Tides Turned On Them!

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by guest blogger, Nila Ridings

Oh Florida! What are we going to do with you? Are you having a contest to see which HOA board can act the stupidest?

Eighty homeowners are now without their trash and recycling containers because the board at Turnberry Reserve hired people to steal them right off the homeowners property!

I won’t be surprised if homeowners don’t turn the board member’s yards, porches, trees, landscaping, and cars into their local landfill site. That could include dirty diapers on “Welcome” mats, used tampons hanging like tree ornaments, and smiley-faced partially-eaten peanut butter sandwiches turned upside down on Lexus IS-350 chrome bumpers.

Where is the health department going to stand on this stupidly insane stunt?

Will homeowners take a stand and sue those responsible for stealing their trash containers? From the attorney’s statements it sure sounds like this time the tides have turned and the board members are going to be the biggest losers!

The board members won the battle and lost the war!

Justice will be served!

(click here for WKMG story)

 

Resurrection of the Third Reich?

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Did that headline get your attention? Well, a Homeowners Association in Kissimmee, Florida sure got mine!

Turnberry Reserve Homeowners Association looks so peaceful when you see its entrance sign. But apparently, people inside this tyrannical regime are seething. In this HOA’s own newsletter they list a lengthy set of requirements on how and when trash is to be set out for the trash collectors.

But that’s not the half of it. Anyone whose trash cans remain visible after the deadline faces a novel punishment. The HOA bullies collect those trash cans and transport them to the county dump for destruction!

Seems that a number of homeowners have complained to WKMG TV-News in Orlando. Reporters interviewed those homeowners for a central Florida story.

Wait, it gets better. The same wench who wrote the community newsletter saying that board members were intentionally destroying trash cans of rule breakers has even more in that newsletter. She’s obviously intent on further humiliating these families by preparing to spread their names far and wide in her (now national) newsletter as well as by word-of-mouth. 

As long as this monstrosity of an HOA has a national platform, here’s a suggestion to those homeowners being bashed. Now that you don’t have a trash can take advantage of it.

Remove all personal identification from your garbage and liberally spread all that refuse from one end of the neighborhood to the other.

And finally, since Turnberry Reserve posts its mailing address and phone number on the web, I’ll publish it here, as well.

Sherry Raposo (HOA president who ordered the cans taken)
Turnberry Reserve
4051 Fox Bend Lane
Kissimmee, Florida 34744
(407) 483-1456

Ah yes, their nationally published HOA newsletter is at the following link:

(click here for Turnberry website)

http://www.turnberryreserve.net/

 

Lawyers Whining About Florida HOA Reform

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Florida lawyers and HOA board members are in a snit because of a new state law designed to reign in dictatorial boards and embezzling board members.

The new law requires HOA boards to maintain records for seven years. It slashes the price HOAs can charge homeowners for copies of documents. HOA elections have to be fair and reasonable. Board members can no longer have those outrageous four hundred dollar apiece high-end meals they routinely force fellow homeowners to finance. But above all, board members have to have crime and fidelity insurance to prevent them from embezzling. And any board member charged with embezzling has to be immediately kicked off the board.
All common sense, right?

Well, the law will cut deeply into the fees that HOA lawyers hand off to all homeowners. 

(click here for an HOA lawyer’s blog)

 

Embezzlements, Galore!

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Fascinating few days of embezzlement news. Two ‘ladies’ in Sevierville, Tennessee, were indicted for embezzling from the Shagbark Homeowners Association. It’s alleged they used the HOA credit card to run up tens of thousands of dollars which will now have to be paid by the homeowners. Their police mug shots make them look a little worried.

For the record: Alice K. Ball and Judy M. Hixon.

(click here for web story)

But the wilder news is from Ventura County, California. Two big HOA embezzlement suspects were arrested there.

Kristin Davis and Melissa Hoff ran the Paradigm Management Group. They were charged with a nearly one million dollar embezzlement from the Big Sky Homeowners Association. When they were caught and fired by an HOA, they allegedly changed the name of their company and did it all over again!

But wait. It gets better.

Turns out these two ladies managed fifty other Homeowners Associations all over Ventura County and Orange County… and many of them are also missing money. At this point, who knows how much dough is involved!

(click here for yet another!)