Category Archives: HOA violence

Homeowner Association Disbanded….For Apathy!

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The story from Sebring, Florida shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to people who study the Homeowners Association Movement. The Highlands County Homeowners Association has decided it is going to cease to exist because nobody in the HOA even cares to show up for meetings. Speakers who were brought in to educate homeowners about things going on in the community found themselves mostly talking to empty rooms. Officials of the association blame widespread apathy.

Well, I remember my Psychology 101 classes in college where we discussed the kinds of things that lead to apathy. Unresolved conflict, frustration, a feeling of helplessness (being bullied), and finally the long descent into apathy.

It’s textbook. It happens to voters. It happens to Homeowners Associations. But it may also be an interesting peek into the future of HOAs.

The American Homeowners Association Movement has long been out of control, led by neighborhood bullies, agenda-driven people getting themselves elected to the board. Once ensconced they begin targeting personal enemies and start diverting money away from homeowners and into improper pockets. Even people who are never targeted by HOA bullies watch the abuse and then begin shrinking from neighborhood involvement.

Yes, apathy is a growing problem in private HOA communities. So is violence. People watch their neighborhoods decay from neglect and abandonment while property values plummet.

The HOA movement is a fifty billion dollar a year scam. And the word is getting out.

(news story from Highlands Today)

http://highlandstoday.com/hi/local-news/homeowners-association-disbands-20131216/

Powerful and Courageous!

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Whether you are for or against the protections of the Second Amendment, this short video of a former soldier and current police officer defending the Second Amendment is unbelievably powerful.

Wait! Before you view this link below, substitute the First Amendment, the Fourth, the Fifth or any of our other Constitutional Freedoms. Our Constitution and the Bill of Rights were created to protect us from government. As we American homeowners keep up our nightmarish slide into ‘government-by-corporation’ we are quickly losing access to any of our Constitutional protections.

Speech? Homeowners Associations constantly restrict it. Religion? In many places HOAs restrict it. Freedom of Assembly? Restricted time after time. Due Process? It doesn’t exist in Homeowners Associations. Restrictions based on against race or disability? The current core of this kind of illegal discrimination is in the heart of the American Homeowners Association Movement.

Of course, the ‘right to contract’ is also embedded into the Constitution. But there are limits to the right to contract. You have, for example, no right to sell yourself or your children into slavery. You have no right to ‘contract’ for a criminal act to be performed.

When it comes to your home and your fundamental privacy, should you really be allowed to contract away the very rights our founders tried to establish?
Do yourself a favor and watch the powerful speech linked below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44zW84FKd50

 

HOA Embezzler Gets Prison

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One of the most bald-faced embezzlers in the country has been told he’ll be spending a little time in prison.

I wrote previously about Chris Barna, who swiped almost a million dollars from the California company where he worked as controller. His firm handles the finances of a number of Homeowners Associations in California. The parent company is Associa, the HOA management firm run by Texas State Senator John Carona.

Earlier this year Barna pleaded guilty to embezzling 980,000 dollars that came out of the accounts of California Homeowners Associations

This week, Barna was sentenced in Federal Court to three years and five months in prison and more than a million dollars in restitution. Judging from past white collar crime cases, though, he’ll only spend part of that time behind bars. And it’s highly doubtful that restitution will ever be made.

But that’s justice in America.

(click here for Justice Department press release)

 

Color Them Happy

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guest blog by Nila Ridings

Why buy a condo or townhouse when a colorful little village awaits us sans taxes, upkeep, the basic boring beige and the biggest reason of all NO HOA or their ridiculous dues and psycho boards?!

What a smart investor Mr. Blankenship seems to be.  He builds these darling small houses on concrete slabs and has the exteriors finished in three weeks.  He paints the exteriors beautiful warm colors of pink, green, purple, robin egg blue, and a steel blue.  He changed the roof lines so they don’t look like all of our “cookie-cutter” HOA neighborhoods.  
 
Three weeks is all it took for him to rent every one of them on one year leases at $500 per month.  And utilities are running around $50 per month.
 
This concept could be duplicated anywhere.  And everybody wins.  No apartment.  No condo. No Co-op. No HOA.  
 
For the money I’ve lost on my townhouse I could have built this whole village.  Geez, if only I could turn back time!
 
 

With Apologies, and Absolutely Off Topic

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Our frigid weather and snow here in Colorado reminded me of a video story I did several years ago on a beloved dog. Her name was Glory. And her name was a perfect description of a dog sent to me from Heaven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akPn2n3p5eY