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Time To Design Your HOA Dron-E-Ports

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guest blog by Nila Ridings
 
We knew it was coming sooner or later.  Remember Ward’s predictions?  How will drone deliveries be handled in your HOA?  William W. Sleeth III is offering his insight and advice.  Get ready…he’s an award winning HOA attorney!
 
He’s suggesting that homeowners associations start discussing these drone landing ports now.  You know, so they can plan for where the Dron-E-Ports will be located, what sort of fencing will be erected, and what the hours of operation will be.  He failed to mention that HOA boards and property managers will conger up landing fees, fines for violations, liens, and lawsuits that will land the homeowners in the witness seat in the courtroom.  Ultimately, they will lose their home over a new pair of black tap shoes drone-delivered for their daughter’s dance recital.
 
And of course, while townhomes have rotten siding, condo roofs are leaking, units are mold-infested, paint is peeling, and dues are being spent on increased insurance premiums, Mr. Sleeth wants the HOAs to start running up billable hours discussing the legal aspects of drone landings!  
 
He’s thinking if drones aren’t allowed to land, the younger home buyers and tech savvy folks won’t buy in the community.  I’m going to give that group far more credit than that.  I predict they won’t buy in HOAs because they have heeded the warnings of those sounding the alarm about the nightmares of living in an HOA!  Drone landings will be the least of their concerns.
 
Drone HOA1178A is on the ground at Dron-E-Port Valley View 2.  Let the newest source of the HOA legal battles begin!!!
 
http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/drones-and-hoas-how-homeowners-associat-56540/?utm_source=brief_email

Arizona Dave vs. The Bimbo

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(Ward is on the left coast dealing with a family emergency. I’ll try to post when possible, but in the meantime the email below is hilarious. It’s from ‘Arizona Dave’ to me, but he’s given me permission to reprint. And Dave is absolutely not responsible for the Bimbo stories. I am. LOL! Not only did I score an exact hit with my verbiage, but I might have found the thinnest-skinned legislator in the country. Also, special note to Bimbo Ugenti: in politics a sense of humor keeps your head above water!)

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Hello Ward,
 
You must read the email below from Rep. Michelle Ugenti! Seems the “bimbo” is not loving Neighbors at War nor my affiliation with your website! LOL!!!! 
 
Further, she is not loving my Arizona State Capital Follies Facebook page. She sent this moments before the Senate hearing on SB 1482, the bill George and I are trying to kill. How clever and childish.
 
Regards, 
Dave Russell, CAM                                                           
Community Association Manager                                
On behalf of the Board of Directors

Circle Tree Owners Association 
461 W Holmes Ave 
Mesa, AZ 85210            

Office Phone (480) 655-0311
Fax (480) 655-8524

Circle Tree is an FHA approved community (Project ID S002462) 

 
—– Forwarded Message —–
From: Michelle Ugenti <MUgenti@azleg.gov>
To: .ALLHMEMS <ALLHMEMS@azleg.gov>; .ALLSMEMS <ALLSMEMS@azleg.gov> 
Cc: Dave Russell <davecr102@yahoo.com> 
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 1:34 PM
Subject: Please read regarding SB1482

Dear Fellow Members,
 
You have recently received two emails from Dave Russell (both were sent to all members except he excluded me from his first email) regarding SB 1482 the HOA omnibus, prime sponsored by Senator Gail Griffin and cosponsored by several others.  This bill is scheduled to be heard Monday afternoon in Senator Griffin’s Government and Environment committee.
 
I wanted to take this opportunity to share with all of you some of Mr. Russell’s other statements concerning me, other legislators, the legislature in general, and the Governor.  I am providing links to his Facebook page and others he participates on so you can see first-hand what he really believes and how he expresses himself.
 
Please see attachment for additional inappropriate comments.
 
Thank you,
 
Michelle
 
 
Here is a link to Dave Russell’s Facebook page –
 
Here is a sample of what is on it –
 
And here comes the magnificent trio, Blondie, the Bimbo, and now the Wack Job! The newcomer is Sen. Gail Griffin. (Wiki definition of a griffin: “a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and an eagle’s talons as its front feet.” Actually, a griffin sounds like one screwed-up animal! But that’s beside the point.)

All this time I thought Republicans were smarter than this! Aren’t Republicans generally for smaller, less intrusive government? Preservation of Constitutional rights? Maybe there’s something in the water in Arizona to make Republicans stupider than the rest of the country. But this trio is something else, bringing back a fundamentally unconstitutional and illegal HOA bill, over, and over, and over.

Representative Michelle Ugenti (the cute young thing) is somehow getting her strings pulled by the powers-that-be in the HOA industry. Remember, politics is about nothing more than who gets how much of the pie. Looks like these three might be carving out a larger slice for themselves than anyone else in office. If Ugenti’s proposed law ever gets passed and signed by Governor Blondie it’ll be challenged in the courts. And once again it’ll be rejected.

 
Here is a link to Arizona State Capital – Follies website (spelled as it appears) –
 
 
Michelle R. Ugenti
State Representative, District 23
Government, Chair
Appropriations
1700 West Washington Street, STE. H
Phoenix, Arizona 85007-2844
Office: 602-926-4480
 
 

How To Dump A Homeowners Rights Activist

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Ah, dear Rancho Santa Fe. All eyes are on ye.

What happens when a board president tries to represent homeowners in a dispute over millions of bucks going into the pockets of managers? Well, you just slap her upside the head. And toss that woman off.

Incredible.

According to the story linked below, Ann Boon, president of Rancho Santa Fe Homeowners Association just wanted to raise a few questions about the unusually high salaries going to HOA managers. The salaries were approved IN SECRET by a three member minority of the seven-member board. And Boon was never included in discussions of the eye-popping salaries.

No problem. The board members protecting the management company against any questions of inappropriate behavior just voted Boon out of office. It was 5-2. Majority rules.

Egads, you would never find this kind of behavior in a traditional government institution where the public has a right to know how money is being spent. But once you’re inside of the phony ‘governments’ of Homeowners Association all bets are off.

(link to story about Rancho Santa Fe HOA)

 

Carona Bites The Big One!!!

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Not in a million years would I have predicted this one. But perhaps the most ethically challenged senator in Texas state history has lost his bid for re-election. 

For 24 years, John Carona has reigned supreme. From his position as Texas State Senator he has built a multi billion dollar company managing 8000 homeowners associations across the country. Around his HOAs he has built banks, insurance companies, landscaping firms. Homeowners who had the misfortune of living in those neighborhoods learned more than anyone else what the phrase ‘lawn Nazi’ means.

Carona lost by just a few hundred votes. Obviously, recounts are being demanded. But at this point it looks like this is one election Carona couldn’t buy. He will still be able to retire as one of the richest men in Texas and he will still reign over those hundreds of thousands of hapless homeowners. And among many of them Carona won’t be ‘former senator,’ he’ll be ‘ex-senator.’

Our political system is slow. But unlike many others, it is eventually self-correcting.

 

Another Black Eye For Colorado

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Colorado’s got another embarassment to swallow. Christa Ann McClure is the current director of Colorado’s Health Exchange. She’s the Colorado face of the new national health care changes.

But she was indicted (and pleaded not guilty) to charges of theft and fraud from a nonprofit housing agency she previously worked for in Montana.

What is it about being in charge of housing projects or community organizations that makes people think their hands belong in any cookie jars that are within reach.

It’s a puzzle.

(link to Denver Post story on McClure’s indictment)