The CotoBuzz Journal, January 2010- Free Speech in  Gated Communities

 

There is albeit, Qualified, Freedom Of Speech in a HOA/CID Community Today, January 06, 2010 - According to a story in JustNews.com titled Resident: HOA Threatens To Break Into Home Bill Elliot and his girlfriend, Mary Ann Frye, “ a South Florida couple said their homeowners' association has threatened to break into their home to remove a sign posted in a window,” in a single-family home in Aruba at the Oasis in Homestead. “The couple said the house is infested with Chinese drywall, and they want Lennar to buy them out so they can move on.”

 

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Astroturf® David Vs. Goliath Battles Today, January 06, 2010, Drew Harwell, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer in a piece titled Lawsuit over age restriction rules forces Florida homeowner out reports that Regina Eschenfelder lost her job and her dad’s health faltered, so she and 5-year old daughter Nicole began overnighting with her mom, Patricia, in a Pinellas Park age-restricted community - so the the Mainlands of Tamarac by the Gulf homeowners association sued the family. Is this an isolated instance? Is this simply a knee-jerk reaction by an abusive homeowners’ association board of directors? Or perhaps this is a typical manufactured David Vs. Goliath epic as described by the Community Association Institute – a para-governmental entity promoting abusive boards?

Laguna Woods Village & OC Register: a Sweetheart Deal? Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 9:04:34 PMHope that the Register's rental/lease contract with Laguna Woods Village was at fair market value under IRS Code 4958 501 (C) 4 Corporations and State of California Section 214

The Antigua Board, PCM, Weapons of Mass Disinformation & Body LanguageA letter was sent to Antigua homeowners by Naomi Poulson, the Antigua Board of Directors, and the management company PCM, as an actual smear campaign to malign Doug Kirk, and others, who want to run for t

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Refusal to See the Dots or Failure to Connect them?

Monday, January 04, 2010, 8:14:54 AM Go to full article Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - Soon after the Ft. Hood massacre, the President Warned the nation not to rush to conclusions anent Nidal MalikHasan. Then Secretary Napolitano following the Christmas Day incident stated that "the system worked", before it failed. Yesterday, senior Obama counter-terrorism official John Brennan, declared there was “no smoking gun”, it was merely a failure to connect-the-dots. The dots have been connected before 9-11-2001. Is it no smoking gun, political correctness or simply a refusal to see what the dots are saying?

 

  

Local Running Club Places Seven in Make Room For Santa Race

Thursday, December 17, 2009, 4:59:45 PM Go to full article Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - The Saddleback Running Club, placed 7 runners in the top of their age group during the Make Room for Santa 5K race over the weekend. The Saddleback Running Club is a local distance running club designed for local elementary, middle, and private schools within the Saddleback Valley Unified School District comprising roughly 10,000 children.

 

DIYL - Do It Yourself Law

Saturday, January 02, 2010, 11:45:37 AM Go to full article A Nation of Do-It-Yourself Lawyers By JOHN T. BRODERICK Jr. and RONALD M. GEORGE Published: January 1, 201
AMERICA’S courts are built on a system of rules and procedures that assume that almost everyone who comes to court has a lawyer. Unfortunately, the reality is quite different. An increasing number of civil cases go forward without lawyers. Litigants who cannot afford a lawyer, and either do not qualify for legal aid or are unable to have a lawyer assigned to them because of dwindling budgets, are on their own — pro se. What’s more, they’re often on their own in cases involving life-altering situations like divorce, child custody and loss of shelter.

 

The Free Speech Argument in HOA/CID Environment

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 2:10:44 PM Go to full article

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - Often, resident complaints in a common interest development (CID) community are dismissed as coming from “disgruntled residents.” Other times, the local governing body threatens litigation using the “defamation argument” meant to stifle free speech, while atg the same time arguing that in a CID environment, there is no such thing as free speech.


 

 

Community/Campus/Art

Beatlemania in the age of Social Media at Saddleback

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 10:07:19 AM Go to full article Mission Viejo, CA – Performing Arts at Saddleback College is scheduled to present Yesterday & Today, a unique interactive Beatles experience where the audience creates the playlist for the night.   Starring Billy McGuigan, this celebration of Beatles music, hits the McKinney Theatre stage on Saturday, January 23rd at 8 p.m. There’s no denying that everyone has a Beatles song attached to at least one event in their life. Through laughter, tears, and personal stories, Yesterday & Today will connect the audience and performers in a way no other show can. Audiences will be able to rekindle the spirit of yesterday through the music of the world’s most popular band. Don’t miss the chance to twist and shout in the aisles while signing every word to the songs that made history in the ‘60s. Performers include Rick Avard, Jay Hanson, Billy McGuigan, Matthew McGuigan, Ryan McGuigan, Darren Pettit and Tomm Roland.

New Year Free Concerts at Saddleback College

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 9:59:04 AM Go to full article Mission Viejo , CA .  The Music Department at Saddleback College has unveiled its Free Concert Series for 2010, Concert Hour, a variety of individual and ensemble performances on Thursdays from Noon to 1 p.m. in Fine Arts Room 101 as follows

Local Running Club Places Seven in Make Room For Santa Race

Thursday, December 17, 2009, 4:59:45 PM Go to full article Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - The Saddleback Running Club, placed 7 runners in the top of their age group during the Make Room for Santa 5K race over the weekend. The Saddleback Running Club is a local distance running club designed for local elementary, middle, and private schools within the Saddleback Valley Unified School District comprising roughly 10,000 children.

 

 


 

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NBA’s LA Clippers’ Commentator to be arraigned for stealing from senior with tumor

SANTA ANA,CA - Michael John Smith, a professional sports commentator will be arraigned tomorrow on charges of stealing $735,000 from a retired school teacher, who has an inoperable brain tumor, by convincing the victim to use his paid-off home as collateral for a development investment project. A co-defendant is also charged in this case.

Argument over beer at Breaker's Bar in Cypress leads to murder trial

SANTA ANA, CA - Richard Lee Thompson faces trial tomorrow for killing a man in a bar by hitting him in the head with a pool cue. Thompson, 48, Lakewood, is charged with one felony count of involuntary manslaughter by unlawful act and faces a maximum sentence of four years in state prison if convicted. Opening statements in Thompson's jury trial are expected to begin tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010.

Oxford Academy HS Teacher Arraigned for illegal relations with a minor

Today, January 06, 2010, WESTMINSTER, CA - Christopher John Ontiveros was arraigned today for engaging in illegal acts with a 17-year-old female high school student whom he met through work.

Butler gets 90 years for Ponzi Scheme Targeting Seniors

Monday, January 04, 2010, 7:33:31 PM Go to full article SANTA ANA, CA - Jeffrey Gordon Butler was sentenced today to 90 years and eight months in state prison for stealing the life savings of over 125 unsuspecting elderly victims in a Ponzi scheme by fraudulently soliciting more than $11 million in investments through the illegal sale of unqualified promissory notes or stocks and filing false tax returns on his ill-gotten profits.

Two Man Sentenced For Breaking into Home of FBI Agent

Monday, January 04, 2010, 3:25:23 PM Go to full article FULLERTON, CA - . Jeffrey Michael Drach and Justin Wesley Case were convicted today of breaking into the home of an off-duty Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent through a partially-open garage door. Drach, 20, Yorba Linda, and Case, 21, Placentia, pleaded guilty to one felony count each of first degree residential burglary with a sentencing enhancement for a non-accomplice present during a residential burglary. Drach and Case were each sentenced to two years in state prison.

OCSD Asking Public's Assistance in Locating Missing Person

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 4:10:05 PM Go to full article

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - The Orange County Sheriffs Department (OCSD) is seeking the public's assistance to locate Rikiya Leland Riggs.Mr. Riggs was last seen in front of the VA Hospital in Long Beach, CA, where he was dropped off at 03:25 PM hours. Mr. Riggs has not been seen or heard from since. According to a family member, Mr. Riggs suffers from various illnesses and requires daily medication.

Horning, RSM Youth Pastor Convicted of Molestation

Friday, December 18, 2009, 4:39:10 PM Go to full article SANTA ANA, CA - Shane Garrett Horning, former youth pastor at a Santa Margarita church was convicted today of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old female parishioner and sending sexual text messages to her 15-year-old female relative.

OCDA Desperately Seeking Sex Victims

Thursday, December 17, 2009, 4:33:28 PM Go to full article SANTA ANA, CA - The Orange County District Attorney’s Office is seeking potential additional victims of a 22-year-old man who was charged today with forcing two women to perform sex acts after threatening them at knife point. Rulin Hernandez Loaeza, Garden Grove, is charged with two felony counts with a sentencing enhancement allegation for sexual crimes against multiple victims. If convicted, the defendant faces a maximum sentence of 15 years to life in state prison.

Warrant Issued For Shamsi for Orchestrating Kidnap and Growing Pot

Thursday, December 17, 2009, 3:57:15 PM Go to full article SANTA ANA, CA - A warrant has been issued for Nasir Kamaruddin Shamsi, a fugitive charged with orchestrating the kidnapping for ransom of a homeowner, whose house he was remodeling, and holding him for $10,000 while the victim was bound, blindfolded, and gagged for two weeks.

Wrong-Way Female DUI Driver Charged with Killing Of Two

Thursday, December 17, 2009, 3:56:24 PM Go to full article FULLERTON, CA - Jessica Lynn Shekel. A DUI driver with a blood alcohol level of .26 percent, more than three times the legal limit, has been charged with killing two sisters and injuring their two nieces by crashing head-on into their vehicle while driving the wrong direction on the freeway.

 

 

 


 

Politics 

Refusal to See the Dots or Failure to Connect them?

Monday, January 04, 2010, 8:14:54 AM Go to full article Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - Soon after the Ft. Hood massacre, the President Warned the nation not to rush to conclusions anent Nidal MalikHasan. Then Secretary Napolitano following the Christmas Day incident stated that "the system worked", before it failed. Yesterday, senior Obama counter-terrorism official John Brennan, declared there was “no smoking gun”, it was merely a failure to connect-the-dots. The dots have been connected before 9-11-2001. Is it no smoking gun, political correctness or simply a refusal to see what the dots are saying?

 

So What's YOUR Line? On Terrorism, that is

Yesterday, January 05, 2010, 8:45:23 AM Go to full article What’s Our Line? By MICHAEL KINSLEY WHY are we reading Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights instead of taking him somewhere and forcibly finding out where he got the explosive underwear and whatever else he might know about Al Qaeda? Isn’t this, as well as the forthcoming federal court trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, proof that the Obama administration doesn’t really regard the war on terrorism as a war?

Pandemic - an excuse for martial law - A look at the Swine Flu Scare

Saturday, January 02, 2010, 11:41:25 AM Go to full article The Swine Flu Scare, a teachable moment and a peek into scare tactics and manipulation behind the push for vaccines by the government and drug companies so that the population will be more wary of any future “mandated” policies. For instance, anyone living in Massachusetts, should be voting out the lawmakers who voted YES on the mandatory vaccine bill. (S2028 Senate version subsequently titled H4271 House version)

Youth Crisis Shelter Executive Convicted in Luxury Crisi

Friday, December 18, 2009, 3:55:25 PM Go to full article SANTA ANA, CA - Lydia Kathleen Fitzgerald was convicted today of embezzling more than $435,000 from the shelter and spending it on a lavish personal lifestyle.

 


 

 

General Interest

Refusal to See the Dots or Failure to Connect them?

Monday, January 04, 2010, 8:14:54 AM Go to full article Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - Soon after the Ft. Hood massacre, the President Warned the nation not to rush to conclusions anent Nidal MalikHasan. Then Secretary Napolitano following the Christmas Day incident stated that "the system worked", before it failed. Yesterday, senior Obama counter-terrorism official John Brennan, declared there was “no smoking gun”, it was merely a failure to connect-the-dots. The dots have been connected before 9-11-2001. Is it no smoking gun, political correctness or simply a refusal to see what the dots are saying?

Laguna Woods Village & OC Register: a Sweetheart Deal?

Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 9:04:34 PM Go to full article Hope that the Register's rental/lease contract with Laguna Woods Village was at fair market value under IRS Code 4958 501 (C) 4 Corporations and State of California Section 214.

 

Local Running Club Places Seven in Make Room For Santa Race

Thursday, December 17, 2009, 4:59:45 PM Go to full article Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - The Saddleback Running Club, placed 7 runners in the top of their age group during the Make Room for Santa 5K race over the weekend. The Saddleback Running Club is a local distance running club designed for local elementary, middle, and private schools within the Saddleback Valley Unified School District comprising roughly 10,000 children.

 

NBA’s LA Clippers’ Commentator to be arraigned for stealing from senior with tumor

SANTA ANA,CA - Michael John Smith, a professional sports commentator will be arraigned tomorrow on charges of stealing $735,000 from a retired school teacher, who has an inoperable brain tumor, by convincing the victim to use his paid-off home as collateral for a development investment project. A co-defendant is also charged in this case.

Argument over beer at Breaker's Bar in Cypress leads to murder trial

SANTA ANA, CA - Richard Lee Thompson faces trial tomorrow for killing a man in a bar by hitting him in the head with a pool cue. Thompson, 48, Lakewood, is charged with one felony count of involuntary manslaughter by unlawful act and faces a maximum sentence of four years in state prison if convicted. Opening statements in Thompson's jury trial are expected to begin tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010.

Oxford Academy HS Teacher Arraigned for illegal relations with a minor

Today, January 06, 2010, WESTMINSTER, CA - Christopher John Ontiveros was arraigned today for engaging in illegal acts with a 17-year-old female high school student whom he met through work.

There is (Qualified) Freedom Of Speech in a HOA/CID Community

Today, January 06, 2010 - According to a story in JustNews.com titled Resident: HOA Threatens To Break Into Home Bill Elliot and his girlfriend, Mary Ann Frye, “ a South Florida couple said their homeowners' association has threatened to break into their home to remove a sign posted in a window,” in a single-family home in Aruba at the Oasis in Homestead. “The couple said the house is infested with Chinese drywall, and they want Lennar to buy them out so they can move on.”

Astroturf® David Vs. Goliath Battles

Today, January 06, 2010, Drew Harwell, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer in a piece titled Lawsuit over age restriction rules forces Florida homeowner out reports that Regina Eschenfelder lost her job and her dad’s health faltered, so she and 5-year old daughter Nicole began overnighting with her mom, Patricia, in a Pinellas Park age-restricted community - so the the Mainlands of Tamarac by the Gulf homeowners association sued the family. Is this an isolated instance? Is this simply a knee-jerk reaction by an abusive homeowners’ association board of directors? Or perhaps this is a typical manufactured David Vs. Goliath epic as described by the Community Association Institute – a para-governmental entity promoting abusive boards?

Take care of Dad who is in poor health, loose your job, get sued by the Association

Today, January 06, 2010, Go to full article Regina Eschenfelder lost her job and her dad’s health faltered, so she and 5-year old daughter Nicole began overnighting with her mom, Patricia, in a Pinellas Park age-restricted community - so the the Mainlands of Tamarac by the Gulf homeowners association sued the family.

Butler gets 90 years for Ponzi Scheme Targeting Seniors

Monday, January 04, 2010, 7:33:31 PM Go to full article SANTA ANA, CA - Jeffrey Gordon Butler was sentenced today to 90 years and eight months in state prison for stealing the life savings of over 125 unsuspecting elderly victims in a Ponzi scheme by fraudulently soliciting more than $11 million in investments through the illegal sale of unqualified promissory notes or stocks and filing false tax returns on his ill-gotten profits.

Two Man Sentenced For Breaking into Home of FBI Agent

Monday, January 04, 2010, 3:25:23 PM Go to full article

FULLERTON, CA - . Jeffrey Michael Drach and Justin Wesley Case were convicted today of breaking into the home of an off-duty Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent through a partially-open garage door. Drach, 20, Yorba Linda, and Case, 21, Placentia, pleaded guilty to one felony count each of first degree residential burglary with a sentencing enhancement for a non-accomplice present during a residential burglary. Drach and Case were each sentenced to two years in state prison.

Disgruntled residents fed up with board of directors fights to take control.

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 11:09:10 AM Go to full article

Pareto-Rules in Common Interest Development/Homeowners Association CID/HOA communities: Different association, same story: disputed elections, a city official threatened with arrest, armed guards stationed at the association headquarters and even the Boys and Girls Club got caught in the middle.

Transfer Fees- Who Governs Who

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 10:56:13 AM Go to full article

Further evidence that HOAs are an instrument of state or public policy created by the real estate legal-academic aristocrats can be found in Sec 3.5, Indirect Restraints on Alienation, of the Restatement Third, Property:Servitudes. In short, the would-be “philosophy- kings” promote the validity of covenants that reduce the money received by a seller, in favor of the benefit of somehow — unexplained — creating more wealth for the greater society. Section 3.5 addresses the technique to increase HOA revenues, not quite challenged in the courts, of the so-called “transfer fee” demanded

The HOA form of government must be abolished!

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 10:46:05 AM Go to full article

For those who have read my classification of HOA true believers as neo-Americans, that is, those who truly believe in the legal, economic and social values and benefits of HOA-land, allow me to clarify my reference to neo-Americans from those whom I classify as “truly hopefuls.”

The HOA/CID Volunteer Fallacy

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 12:46:32 PM Go to full article

George K. Staropoli Author of Establishing the New HOA-land America - http://starman. com/starpub HOAGOV videos: http://youtube. com/hoagov Responds to the Berlind | Weil post titled “Why Won't They Serve? Homeowners won't volunteer for boards of directors of community associations another nail in the coffin? (http://www.berding-weil.net/articles/why-wont-they-serve.php)

 

Youth Crisis Shelter Executive Convicted in Luxury Crisi

Friday, December 18, 2009, 3:55:25 PM Go to full article SANTA ANA, CA - Lydia Kathleen Fitzgerald was convicted today of embezzling more than $435,000 from the shelter and spending it on a lavish personal lifestyle.

Horning, RSM Youth Pastor Convicted of Molestation

Friday, December 18, 2009, 4:39:10 PM Go to full article SANTA ANA, CA - Shane Garrett Horning, former youth pastor at a Santa Margarita church was convicted today of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old female parishioner and sending sexual text messages to her 15-year-old female relative.

OCDA Desperately Seeking Sex Victims

Thursday, December 17, 2009, 4:33:28 PM Go to full article SANTA ANA, CA - The Orange County District Attorney’s Office is seeking potential additional victims of a 22-year-old man who was charged today with forcing two women to perform sex acts after threatening them at knife point. Rulin Hernandez Loaeza, Garden Grove, is charged with two felony counts with a sentencing enhancement allegation for sexual crimes against multiple victims. If convicted, the defendant faces a maximum sentence of 15 years to life in state prison.

Warrant Issued For Shamsi for Orchestrating Kidnap and Growing Pot

Thursday, December 17, 2009, 3:57:15 PM Go to full article SANTA ANA, CA - A warrant has been issued for Nasir Kamaruddin Shamsi, a fugitive charged with orchestrating the kidnapping for ransom of a homeowner, whose house he was remodeling, and holding him for $10,000 while the victim was bound, blindfolded, and gagged for two weeks.

Wrong-Way Female DUI Driver Charged with Killing Of Two

Thursday, December 17, 2009, 3:56:24 PM Go to full article FULLERTON, CA - Jessica Lynn Shekel. A DUI driver with a blood alcohol level of .26 percent, more than three times the legal limit, has been charged with killing two sisters and injuring their two nieces by crashing head-on into their vehicle while driving the wrong direction on the freeway.

 

 


Community Journalism

Pelosi's Shut Up Rule Adopted by Sen. Feinstein

Friday, December 04, 2009, 9:37:18 PM Go to full article

Rancho Santa Margarita - CA, December 4, 2009 We have previously reported how Speaker Pelosi has tried to amend S448, the Freedom of Information Act with a Shut Up Rule. Now Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) are jumping in the Speaker's bandwagon with thier own version of the Shut Up Rule: An amendment to S44 that would limit who is protected and likely exclude from coverage many online journalists, freelancers without contracts, and students or volunteer journalists, among others.

Pelosi's Shut Up Rule Adopted by Sen. Feinstein
Rancho Santa Margarita - CA, December 4, 2009We have previously reported how Speaker Pelosi has tried to amend S448, the Freedom of Information Act with a Shut Up Rule. Now Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) are...

 

 

 

 


Around  HOAs

There is (Qualified) Freedom Of Speech in a HOA/CID Community

Today, January 06, 2010 - According to a story in JustNews.com titled Resident: HOA Threatens To Break Into Home Bill Elliot and his girlfriend, Mary Ann Frye, “ a South Florida couple said their homeowners' association has threatened to break into their home to remove a sign posted in a window,” in a single-family home in Aruba at the Oasis in Homestead. “The couple said the house is infested with Chinese drywall, and they want Lennar to buy them out so they can move on.”

Astroturf® David Vs. Goliath Battles

Today, January 06, 2010, Drew Harwell, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer in a piece titled Lawsuit over age restriction rules forces Florida homeowner out reports that Regina Eschenfelder lost her job and her dad’s health faltered, so she and 5-year old daughter Nicole began overnighting with her mom, Patricia, in a Pinellas Park age-restricted community - so the the Mainlands of Tamarac by the Gulf homeowners association sued the family. Is this an isolated instance? Is this simply a knee-jerk reaction by an abusive homeowners’ association board of directors? Or perhaps this is a typical manufactured David Vs. Goliath epic as described by the Community Association Institute – a para-governmental entity promoting abusive boards?

 

Take care of Dad who is in poor health, loose your job, get sued by the Association

Today, January 06, 2010, Go to full article Regina Eschenfelder lost her job and her dad’s health faltered, so she and 5-year old daughter Nicole began overnighting with her mom, Patricia, in a Pinellas Park age-restricted community - so the the Mainlands of Tamarac by the Gulf homeowners association sued the family.

Calculation error inflates pensions by 70% - Agencies represented include LAFCO

Saturday, January 02, 2010, 12:03:38 PM Go to full article THE CONTRA COSTA County retirement association has mistakenly overpaid former public workers for more than a decade, according to a new legal analysis that will set off a battle over tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and could send government workers rushing into retirement before fixes are made.

Employees' Retirement Association trustee is on both sides of a lawsuit

Saturday, January 02, 2010, 12:00:34 PM Go to full article LAST SPRING, A retired Contra Costa Sheriff's Department captain sued the county retirement system in an unsuccessful attempt to block public disclosure of her six-figure pension. It turns out that she didn't act on her own. Rather, she was put up to the task by a retiree support group.

 

Disgruntled residents fed up with board of directors fights to take control.

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 11:09:10 AM Go to full article

Pareto-Rules in Common Interest Development/Homeowners Association CID/HOA communities: Different association, same story: disputed elections, a city official threatened with arrest, armed guards stationed at the association headquarters and even the Boys and Girls Club got caught in the middle.

Transfer Fees- Who Governs Who

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 10:56:13 AM Go to full article

Further evidence that HOAs are an instrument of state or public policy created by the real estate legal-academic aristocrats can be found in Sec 3.5, Indirect Restraints on Alienation, of the Restatement Third, Property:Servitudes. In short, the would-be “philosophy- kings” promote the validity of covenants that reduce the money received by a seller, in favor of the benefit of somehow — unexplained — creating more wealth for the greater society. Section 3.5 addresses the technique to increase HOA revenues, not quite challenged in the courts, of the so-called “transfer fee” demanded

The HOA form of government must be abolished!

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 10:46:05 AM Go to full article

For those who have read my classification of HOA true believers as neo-Americans, that is, those who truly believe in the legal, economic and social values and benefits of HOA-land, allow me to clarify my reference to neo-Americans from those whom I classify as “truly hopefuls.”

The HOA/CID Volunteer Fallacy

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 12:46:32 PM Go to full article

George K. Staropoli Author of Establishing the New HOA-land America - http://starman. com/starpub HOAGOV videos: http://youtube. com/hoagov Responds to the Berlind | Weil post titled “Why Won't They Serve? Homeowners won't volunteer for boards of directors of community associations another nail in the coffin? (http://www.berding-weil.net/articles/why-wont-they-serve.php)

Take care of Dad who is in poor health, loose your job, get sued by the Association

Today, January 06, 2010, Go to full article Regina Eschenfelder lost her job and her dad’s health faltered, so she and 5-year old daughter Nicole began overnighting with her mom, Patricia, in a Pinellas Park age-restricted community - so the the Mainlands of Tamarac by the Gulf homeowners association sued the family.

 

Exactly What the HOA/CID BOD Doctors Ordered

Monday, January 04, 2010, 3:25:29 PM Go to full article For years, Jan Jackson has raged against her homeowners association in rural Teller County and against all HOAs, which she describes as “little dictatorships run by egotistical power-seekers.”

 

DIYL - Do It Yourself Law

Saturday, January 02, 2010, 11:45:37 AM Go to full article A Nation of Do-It-Yourself Lawyers By JOHN T. BRODERICK Jr. and RONALD M. GEORGE Published: January 1, 201
AMERICA’S courts are built on a system of rules and procedures that assume that almost everyone who comes to court has a lawyer. Unfortunately, the reality is quite different. An increasing number of civil cases go forward without lawyers. Litigants who cannot afford a lawyer, and either do not qualify for legal aid or are unable to have a lawyer assigned to them because of dwindling budgets, are on their own — pro se. What’s more, they’re often on their own in cases involving life-altering situations like divorce, child custody and loss of shelter.

 

The Free Speech Argument in HOA/CID Environment

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 2:10:44 PM Go to full article

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - Often, resident complaints in a common interest development (CID) community are dismissed as coming from “disgruntled residents.” Other times, the local governing body threatens litigation using the “defamation argument” meant to stifle free speech, while atg the same time arguing that in a CID environment, there is no such thing as free speech.

Take care of Dad who is in poor health, loose your job, get sued by the Association

Today, January 06, 2010, Go to full article Regina Eschenfelder lost her job and her dad’s health faltered, so she and 5-year old daughter Nicole began overnighting with her mom, Patricia, in a Pinellas Park age-restricted community - so the the Mainlands of Tamarac by the Gulf homeowners association sued the family.

 

Exactly What the HOA/CID BOD Doctors Ordered

Monday, January 04, 2010, 3:25:29 PM Go to full article For years, Jan Jackson has raged against her homeowners association in rural Teller County and against all HOAs, which she describes as “little dictatorships run by egotistical power-seekers.”

 

The Antigua Board, PCM, Weapons of Mass Disinformation & Body Language

A letter was sent to Antigua homeowners by Naomi Poulson, the Antigua Board of Directors, and the management company PCM, as an actual smear campaign to malign Doug Kirk, and others, who want to run for the board.  It is important to note that Poulson and the Board intentionally excluded several homeowners in the mailing of this letter, including Doug Kirk, Jorge and Carol Cordero, and myself. None of us received this letter. 

 

 

 


 

 

LETTERS

The Antigua Board, PCM, Weapons of Mass Disinformation & Body Language

A letter was sent to Antigua homeowners by Naomi Poulson, the Antigua Board of Directors, and the management company PCM, as an actual smear campaign to malign Doug Kirk, and others, who want to run for the board.  It is important to note that Poulson and the Board intentionally excluded several homeowners in the mailing of this letter, including Doug Kirk, Jorge and Carol Cordero, and myself. None of us received this letter. 

Corporate Governance 101

Yesterday, January 05, 2010 LETTERS Corporate Governance 101 Posted 01-05-2010 | 10:00 AM Laguna Woods VIllage, CA - Prevent, Detect and Deter Corporate Fraud

 

Budget? Budget? Did you Say Budget?

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 12:27:30 PM Go to full article

Every homeowner of Leisure World/Laguna Hills Village please open the budget mailed to you from United Mutual, Third Mutual or Fifty Towers and notice there is NO Operational Budget from Golden Rain Foundation Trust (GRFT). Each year for the past 10 years PCM, the Managing Agent of Leisure World/Laguna Woods Village and the Golden Rain Foundation (GRF) Boards have in our opinion knowingly violated this senior citizens homeowners associations governing documents by not distributing an Operating Budget to each homeowner.

Disgruntled residents fed up with board of directors fights to take control.

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 11:09:10 AM Go to full article

Pareto-Rules in Common Interest Development/Homeowners Association CID/HOA communities: Different association, same story: disputed elections, a city official threatened with arrest, armed guards stationed at the association headquarters and even the Boys and Girls Club got caught in the middle.

Laguna Woods Village & OC Register: a Sweetheart Deal?

Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 9:04:34 PM Go to full article Hope that the Register's rental/lease contract with Laguna Woods Village was at fair market value under IRS Code 4958 501 (C) 4 Corporations and State of California Section 214.

 

Evil Twins or Long-Lost Relatives?

Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 1:42:06 PM Go to full article Evil Twins or Long-Lost Relatives? Laguna Woods Village - CA, December 15, 2009 The sell out twins. They both authored the "PCM Management Agreement" and now blocking access to "The Bonus Incentive Plan"

Forensic Audit? Forensic Audit? You Said Forensic Audit?

Sunday, December 13, 2009, 5:27:29 PM Go to full article Forensic Audit? Forensic Audit? You Said Forensic Audit? Laguna Woods Village - CA, December 13, 2009 How can the boards refuse a forensic audit? Isn't the money being mismanaged their money also?

Who Is Supposed to Keep An Eye on Boards?

Sunday, December 13, 2009, 5:21:44 PM Go to full article Who Is Supposed to Keep An Eye on Boards? Laguna Woods Village - CA, December 13, 2009 Are the boards under inspection?

 

 

 

 

 

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