RULED BY THE HOA MAFIA!
The National HOA Scam is as close to ‘all things Mafia’ as it gets. Get it through your skulls, people! Homeowners Associations are organized crime. It used to be illegal to go door to door threatening to break glass, bust up a business, scare customers if the business owner didn’t pay his weekly extortion to the mob.
An interesting book in my past reading was “Jimmy the Weasel.” You don’t have to read the book. Just read the Wiki article linked below about the life of Jimmy Fratianno, mob boss of the West Coast. And see if his kind of extortion isn’t an exact parallel of the crap that goes on in Homeowners Associations. Threats, extortion, property damage, mob-controlled living environment. The most powerful story, though, is about the homeowner in Sarasota who was victimized by her HOA mob.
You think I’m exaggerating? Read the links below!
(Sarasota HOA extortion)
(link to background of Mafia boss Jimmy The Weasel. He should have been an HOA board member)
Colorado has lots of uranium and other radioactive materials in the soils. It also has lots of radon gas, which it absolutely a carcinogen. When a woman in a home in the Stapleton HOA found radon and wanted to put in a mitigation system, the HOA told her “Nope! No way!”
Now, all sorts of people are trying to embarrass this HOA into doing the right thing.
Incidentally, Colorado’s homeowners rights hero, Stan Hrincevich, was one of those interviewed for the TV news story. It seems Stan is the most interviewed person in the state when it comes to standing up for homeowners.
Oh, another funny thing: The former Stapleton Airport, and the Stapleton neighborhood were named after a prominent Ku Klux Klan member in Colorado in the 1920s. Perfect!
(ABC affiliate’s story on radon mitigation)
(Colorado’s KKK Past!)
You know, all these evil deeds done under the shelter of the National HOA Scam would vanish, completely vanish if the Legislatures approved laws that increased the Statute of Limitations for damages caused by Homeowners Associations to ten or fifteen years. Many homeowners don’t even know the damage they’ve suffered until a good number of years go by. If they had fifteen years to be able to sue recover damages, this particular blog would cease to exist. HOA boards would have massive reason to suddenly become responsible and always follow the letter of the law.
Such legislation would never be approved by the courts. It would be ruled blatantly unconstitutional.
There are Statutes of Limitation on rape, child molesting, robbery, burglary, libel, slander, white collar crime. But there’s no Statute of Limitations for murder. But wrongful, frivolous, bullying actions by an HOA can absolutely change the outcome of a homeowner’s life. There are, in fact, cases across the country where a homeowner has committed suicide to escape HOA harassment.
It’s just a thought. No, it’s just a dream.
Is there an HOA in the country that hasn’t experienced embezzling by executives? HOAs historically are money pots, few homeowners even know how to investigate. But the arrest and charging of suspected embezzlers seems like a daily event. Maybe even an hourly event.
Put a money pot out there, give a soccer mom or a football dad exclusive control over the account, and it’s going to be stolen. I guarantee it’s going to be stolen.
Maybe I shouldn’t report on HOA embezzlement, It’s too easy. Maybe, instead, I should try to look for an HOA which hasn’t been cheated. It’s one of those ‘man bites dog’ situations.
(link to embezzlement story in Tennessee)
The U.S. Attorney won’t release documents in the Nevada organized crime/Mafia case against the state’s Homeowners Association industry, despite the fact that a judge on the Nevada Supreme Court tipped off a lawyer friend that the FBI was going to stage a series of raids on people connected with the HOA scam.
That lawyer shredded wheelbarrows full of documents before the FBI could get to them.
There is so much corruption in the world of Homeowners Associations. How can federal officials prove that they’re not just as corrupt as the 43 people they sent to prison? They can release the damned documents to the Las Vegas Review Journal! These are public records!
Under the FOIA, the U.S. Attorney MUST release them. Claiming their records might reveal romantic relationships among public figures IS NOT A LEGAL REASON TO WITHHOLD THEM!
Hiding those records is an absolute sign of corruption in the U.S. Attorney’s office! The taxpayers own those records, not the crooked lawyers who work for the taxpayers. Every day those records remain secret is another day of growing public suspicion of a filthy, corrupt process, corrupt law enforcement and corrupt federal officials.
Damn it! Do it!
