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You Can’t Go Home Again

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Often, when I’m writing or researching material to post on this column, I find myself feeling a little down, knowing how many people have lost their homes or their peace-of-mind while trying to do battle with the scandalously corrupt Homeowners Association movement. I get hundreds of emails each day from people who’ve lost their homes or their net worth while trying to battle a movement that operates completely outside the guarantees of the First, Second and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. Yes, as many of you know it can be a little depressing. Still, I’m not a negative personality. I always look for hope and pray for change.

On these long evenings that I set aside for research, I often have music playing in the background to keep my mind on an even keel. Right now, one of my favorites, James Taylor, is playing his song, Copperline.

It’s a song about his youth in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He sings about the row of moonshine stills along Morgan Creek which ran about a half mile from his boyhood home, and the magnificent night he lost his virginity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSSqnBfgBsQ

“Took a fall from a windy height, I only knew how to hold on tight.

pray for love enough to last all night, down on Copperline,

Day breaks and the boy wakes up and the dog barks and the birds sing and the sap rises and the angels sigh,

“Tried to go back as if I could, all spec-house and plywood,

Tore up, and tore up good, down on Copperline.”

Chapel Hill, these days, is infested with the ‘new housing model’ which takes all the old neighborhoods and embeds them in the kind of concentrated, regulated housing that makes it impossible for our young to experience the complete innocence of youth. “All spec-house and plywood, tore up and tore up good….” It makes one want to weep for the destruction of the innocence we all wish we could have passed on to our children.

Thomas Wolfe, also a North Carolinian, wrote the 1940 novel, You Can’t Go Home Again, five words which are probably as true as any spoken. We can’t go home. Yes, we can return to the geographic spot where, in our youthful exuberance, we created memories and romance that can never be experienced again. But those moments of youthful innocence are gone forever.

 

Amazon Book Reviews

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Numbers on this website continue to grow each month. We have a ton of new people logging in based on recommendations by friends. I’m also aware of a pretty good spurt in book sales right now and I hope you’re enjoying Neighbors At War. As you know, I am more than passionate about this mission of waking all Americans up to what’s going on in this industry.

Along that line, I’m once again encouraging readers to submit book reviews for Neighbors At War. I don’t recall the exact figures, but each five-star review leads to several thousand new book sales.

If you enjoyed my book or you’re angry about the housing industry’s lie that’s been shoved down our throats for far too long, please help me spread the word. Go to my Neighbors At War page on Amazon and tell the world whether my book helped wake you up.

We’ve got momentum. More and more people are learning the truth each day. But I’m only a tiny part of that equation. You are the 99%ers. You’re like the lead bowling pin in the alley. Each bit of influence you exert then passes that momentum on to others.

We will win.

 

The Slow Creep Toward HOA Honesty

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Well, the state of New Mexico has finally taken an official action to force Homeowners Associations to disclose their rules and budgets to prospective homeowners. A story detailing the changes is linked below.
It looks like board members can be liable for civil damages if they refuse to disclose lawsuits in which the HOA is involved, unpaid judgments, boards must be elected by majority vote, not the sneaky tactic of a majority vote by a minority sub-group (tricky wording; a more accurate name is ‘outright election fraud.’)
There are lots of other traditional HOA scams that look like they could undergo tighter scrutiny by the state. But as you read the article below, ask yourself, “Why wasn’t this done many, many years ago?”
Does anyone get the sense that we’re finally seeing the beginning of a growing national backlash against decades of corruption and fascist corporate control over innocent private homeowners? Are we making some progress here?
“I love it when a plan comes together.” (line from the old Mission Impossible show)

(link to Albuquerque Journal article)

 

What’s Up With The Realtors?

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This blog is absolutely self-serving, and I have no problem admitting it. After all, I’m trying to sell my book and part of that means doing paid speeches across the country.

A few weeks ago a huge real estate firm in a major Midwest city offered a pretty nice fee to have me speak at their annual convention. I was out of state at the time, but rushed back to talk to these Realtors about the country’s HOA mess and the kinds of financial and housing disasters that are racing down on this country like a falling bomb. But while I was in the air, my agent got a call saying the company was cancelling my speech.

That’s OK, it happens. But it’s unusual enough that it got me wondering. I learned I was hired on a recommendation, but at some point someone in this real estate network must have read my book and discovered the topic was, shall we say, controversial?

Controversial?

Well, let’s take a second look. If a looming real estate disaster is about to destroy the financial well-being of millions of people as they buy homes and take out mortgages, shouldn’t someone advise them to be cautious about how they structure their new purchase? And who should that be? Are the Realtors giving their clients such warnings? Me thinks not.

If the entire Real Estate profession is on the verge of getting hammered by a housing disaster a hundred times bigger than the 2008-2009 recession, who should know about it first? Do you think the Realtors know? Me thinks not.

A lot of us are being blinded and hornswoggled about the state of our economy. I’m going to link to a 2008 Wall Street Journal column about a hedge fund manager who predicted the 2008 mortgage crash, and found several ways to ‘short’ the housing market. He made billions of dollars profit for himself, and many billions more for his hedge fund.

And who knows absolutely nothing about how this obscure investor made his billions? Do the Realtors? Again, me thinks not.

(WSJ column on John Paulson, hedge fund manager)

 

Handicapped NC Woman Beats HOA

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Rebecca Cunningham, don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched!

Ms. Cunningham is handicapped and four years ago installed a lift on her porch to allow her to avoid the stairs. No problem. The HOA approved it. All of a sudden, the HOA said she had to repaint it to exactly match the new cream color of the trim. She talked to the manufacturer who said it shouldn’t be painted, because it would make maintenance too difficult. So she appealed to the HOA, and lost.

Rebecca then appealed to a local television troubleshooter who got some attorneys involved, and hoo boy, did this HOA ever stumble and scramble backwards.

Rebecca, listen carefully because I’m going to give you some inside dope. HOAs hate disabled people. It’s not about you, it’s the fact that you’re disabled. Really! We’ve seen this thing happen time and again across the country where HOAs seem to come down especially hard on the handicapped. You’re persona non grata. Your very presence apparently brings down property values.

But, Rebecca, it gets worse. You embarrassed your HOA board by going public and getting your story broadcast on the Durham, N.C. ABC-affiliate. They were further embarrassed by having to rescind their illegal order against you. Babe, from now on you are a target. You’ve got a big target on your back. They will harrass you mercilessly. Not only is your disability bringing down property values, you failed to worship at the feet of the neighborhood Nazis. Watch your back Rebecca. But don’t ever back down.

(link to ABC-TV story in Durham, NC)

By the way, below is the management of this HOA if you’d like to thank them for accommodating handicapped people. Keep it nice!

Elite Management Professionals, Inc.
Address:
Street: 4112 Blue Ridge Road, Ste 100
Town: Raleigh
State: NC
Zip Code: 27612
Country: USA
Telephone: Telephone: (919) 233-7660
Fax: