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Scary Reason To Live In A Homeowners Association

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The news from North Carolina sounded horrible at first. Twenty-one people were standing on the deck of a rental home on the Outer Banks when the deck collapsed. Most were injured and taken to the hospital. It could have been far worse, of course, but the final chapters haven’t been written.

Trial lawyers will be all over these injured people like ticks on a picnic blanket. This beach home rents for 10,000 bucks a week. It’s obviously owned by someone who has deep pockets. It’s also in a private neighborhood of wealthy homes and the lawyers will be looking for every deep pocket in sight. And that means Homeowners Associations. HOAs take out insurance against calamities like this one, but every one of those policies has an upper limit. They also have exceptions for things like improper design and maintenance. The bottom line is that rich people in a rich HOA are legally bound to each other under the CC&Rs. Dang, that’s a lot of deep pockets! This series of lawsuits is going to put a lot of lawyers’ kids through college.

When you join a Homeowners Association you and your assets are community property. If you don’t believe that, then pay attention to property values in the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman neighborhood. And watch property values in this nice HOA on the beach. Lordy, Lordy! Smell the money. 

 http://tinyurl.com/lyholza

 

 

 

 

 

Good, Good HOA Site

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I always hate to send my readers away to another link. It’s supposed to hurt my SEO ranking. If you don’t return, my overall SEO score goes down and I get fewer followers.

Still, I feel it’s my obligation to occasionally send you to links that I feel are not only valid, but are important as we try to articulate what’s wrong with the National HOA scam. I read this one and was impressed with the way they analyzed the current HOA system and why this supposedly extremely ‘local’ government entity is not really local at all.

Read and enjoy, return to me, and comment.

http://tinyurl.com/lhomvr2

 

 

 

Non HOA. But Incredibly Important!

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All most Americans want from the government is to be treated fairly. But in the perversity of today’s various legal ‘interpretations’, no American can read the law and find what’s legal and illegal. Perversity is a mild word.

Just read the following link and figure out how far the courts have strayed from the original intent of the founders of the country:

http://tinyurl.com/mopzgof

And if you still don’t believe you can be stripped and handcuffed to the bars of a police holding cell for four hours just for raising questions about the financial health of your HOA, just read this story about Col. Robert Frank and Tim Stebbins.

http://tinyurl.com/lf6p8jz

God help us!

 

Definition of an Arrogant Jackass?

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I always love to blog about, and link to, Darcy Spears and the HOA Hall of Shame feature she does for KTNV television in Las Vegas. She was one of the first television reporters in the nation to regularly investigate and expose the wrongdoings of Homeowners Associations. Of course, the criminal empire in Las Vegas generously provides her with lots of material. Nevada has some of the most notoriously felonious HOAs in the country, as evidenced by the dozens of indictments in the ongoing FBI/U.S. Attorney investigation.

In Darcy’s current expose’, she notes how federal FCC law gives homeowners the right to set up satellite dishes, and no HOA in the country has the power to supersede that federal law.

But then, we’re talking about the Pallatine Hill Homeowners Association in Henderson, Nevada. And its president, Barry Tedesco, is mind-numbingly idiotic about federal law. He’s sent out a flood of letters saying homeowners would be fined if they didn’t remove their satellite dishes. Even an appearance in front of the Pallatine Hill HOA board showed homeowners that Tedesco is in serious need of either a brain transplant, or a recall election. He apparently feels he’s above federal law. And he’s willing to risk ever last cent of this HOA’s budget to sue, lien and foreclose on all those homeowners using satellite TV. I honestly hope someone will walk my blog post door-to-door in this HOA.

Darcy Spears is too mannerly to call Tedesco a complete jackass.

mule1[1]But I’m not.

The president of the Pallatine Hill Homeowners association, Barry Tedesco, is a jackass.

(Note to KTNV General Manager: Darcy Spears deserves a raise. She’s getting you national publicity!)

http://tinyurl.com/kxqs5r6 

 

4th Of July Surprises!

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Every single one of our fifty-six founders who signed the Declaration of Independence knew he was essentially signing his own death warrant. The English penalty for treason was hanging by the neck until dead. And the Declaration was certainly high treason. One witness described the atmosphere in the room as “a pensive and awful silence.”

So this day is kind of a holy day for those of us who revere this nation.

That said, I have no rants about Homeowners Associations today. I just want to link you to one of the most moving videos I have ever watched.

Bar none.

http://tinyurl.com/me4ojwt