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HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATIONS AND JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT
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Judge B. J. Bjork retires after facilitating fraudulent home foreclosures in Riverside homeowner associations
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July 22, 2008
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by
Sharon Stephens
© © Sharon Stephens
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Website:
Ain't It Beautiful
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When I purchased my home in Shadow Crest Homeowners Association (HOA) in Cathedral City, Riverside County, California in 1996, I knew nothing about HOAs being entities that exist purely for the development, sale, and administration of residential real estate, and that every aspect of my life within the HOA would be governed by the association. I certainly had no idea that what I had initialed at Closing for the mortgage was a binding adhesion contract with a private corporation and that I had surrendered my constitutional rights and civil liberties to the will and whim of the HOA. In reality, the HOA is a minority of the members - namely those few vocal and active members who get on the board of directors - its management company, and, the all pervasive legal wolves who could snatch my home in a non-judicial foreclosure without ever going to court. I was falsely arrested while going into court to dismiss a void-on-the-face restraining order and incarcerated in jail and remained for over a year, suffering much well-documented abuse. I lost my home, thousands of dollars, my health, and my reputation.
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Peters & Freedman: 2 million dollar verdict
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A Jury returned a 2 million dollar verdict against Santa Rosa Cove Homeowners Association represented by Peters & Freedman
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July 21, 2008
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by
Richard Fredericks
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Website:
AHRC News
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A California jury returned a 2 million dollar verdict last week against the Santa Rosa Cove Homeowners Association, represented by Michael Kim of Peters & Freedman who attempted over a six year period to wreck an adjacent homeowner's life, by denying access and interfering with the homeowner's easement. See attached complaint and jury verdict.
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Virginia bill SB-6016 grants authority to Homeowner Associations to re-write deeds
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Dangers of buying or owning homes in Virginia homeowner associations
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July 20, 2008
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by
JM
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Website:
HOA Nuthouse
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QUESTION: I submitted information a montha ago about Virginia bill SB-6016 granting authority to Homeowner Associations to re-write deeds - John - Great Falls, VirginIa Did it get lost in cyberspace? AHRC RESPONSE: Looks like your Virginia Bill News Alert did disappear into cyberspace, John. Can you please send it again the AHRC "News Submission Form". SB 6016 sounds like a bill that is being written to take Virginians property away from the property owners and all homeowners need to know about it. Politicians should not be writing laws to let "voluntary directors" of neighborhood homeowner associations re-write the deeds of other people's homes and private property
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JUDGE, JURY AND EXECUTIONER
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The power to use wealth to act as a dictatorial judge, jury and executioner in America's homeowner associations
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July 19, 2008
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by
Jan Jackson
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Website:
AHRC News
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Power-and-money-seeking HOA presidents and elected public officials -- with the help of their followers / cabals and their state legislators -- really do have the power to act as judges, juries and executioners in anything and everything they say or do. And that kind of government (or any other governing body) usually goes by the name "Fascist".
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Utah Condo Owners Clobbered with new Legislation that takes away their constitutional rights
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Boards can now incorpoarate and not even tell the owners!
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July 19, 2008
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by
Shelly Marshall
© (c) shelly Marshall
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Website:
AHRC News
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"All political power is inherent in the people" reads the Utah constitution, except it seems if you own a condominium. New legislation just passed that could allow your board to incorporate your association without a member vote. The political power to incorporate, with articles you never voted for, is now inherent in your board, not you. Senator Michael G. Waddoups and Representative Gage Froerer sponsored a bill, SB288, that alters the Utah Code people bought their condominium under (Condominium Ownership Act and Revised Non-profit Corporation Act (RNCA), by allowing condominium boards to incorporate without approval or even notification to members. This is IMPORTANT legislation that is taking away rights and I can't get anyone to look at it...its truly terrifying where this is going--the newspapers will not even print a letter to the editor!
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JUDGES AND CAI FORECLOSURE LAWYERS WORK TO SHUT DOWN HOMEOWNERS WEBSITE
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Voice of Homeowners Threatened with Extinction
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April 14, 2008
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by
Jan Jackson
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Website:
AHRC News
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What would you do if you and your husband were in the middle of fighting the good fight against the tyranny of your homeowners association, when your husband was suddenly hospitalized, and during his hospitalization, your homeowners association's CAI lawyer got a judge to summon your husband to court to pay the CAI lawyer a $5,000 sanction -- when the CAI lawyer knew full well that your husband could not attend his deposition because he was in the hospital?
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ANTI-FORECLOSURE WEBSITE IS THREATENED WITH FORECLOSURE
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AHRC.com at risk of shut down by powerful realty interests
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April 13, 2008
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by
Danny Schechter
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Website:
Media Channel.org
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Mediachannel.org appeals to its readers and the independent media community to publicize this issue, appeal to the local press to cover it and to civil liberties groups to defend them. This is an issue of economic justice and free expression in the context of a national foreclosure crisis. A California website representing homeowners fighting against foreclosures and arbitrary actions by Homeowner Associations is at risk of being shut down in the same way that a muckraking whistle blower site, Wikileaks.org was removed from the internet by a California Judge until a public clamor forced him to reverse himself.
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Investigation on Homeowner Association Foreclosure Filings - Part I
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Reveals Serious Flaws By Lawyers,Peters & Freedman
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April 9, 2004
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AHRC News Services
© AHRC News Services
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Website:
AHRC News
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The law firm of Peters and Freedman with offices in Encinitas and Palm Desert, California, claim to represent several hundred homeowner associations. A number of homeowners have been investigating some of the practices of this law firm, especially when they conducted foreclosure sales on behalf of homeowner associations. An investigation of 5 foreclosures has the following in common. 1. The foreclosure sale was handled by David Peters of Peters and Freedman. 2. The notice of foreclosure sale was posted in a publication called Uptown Examiner. It has a circulation of approximately 165. 3. Each home was sold to the same attorney, Carlos Sosa. 4. The homes were sold at foreclosure for amounts ranging from $1400 to $7,000. The equity in each home was estimated to be between $150,000 to $300,000.
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THE $140,000 PARKING TICKET IN A CALIFORNIA HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION
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Analysis of Daily Journal Article
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July 18, 2004
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Peter Amherst
© AHRC News Services
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Website:
AHRC News
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Simon Freedman of Peters & Freedman, the attorney for the association, is quoted as saying that the association had a duty to enforce its rules. Of course, a homeowner association lawyer would say that. He stands to make a lot of money from the homeowners for that noble stance. If the Madigans' legal fees were $80,000, it is safe to assume that the homeowners paid at least that for Mr. Freedman to prosecute the complaint. That is $140,000 out of homeowners' pockets over a vehicle that was parked on the street. That is quite a hefty parking ticket. This law firm has been criticised by many homeowners in Southern California for being excesively litigious.
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Court Documents Show That Homeowner Association lawyers Peters & Freedman Ask for Tens of Thousands in Non-Allowable Legal Fees
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Court Documents Signed Under Penalty of Perjury
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October 31, 2004
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HOA Voices
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Website:
AHRC News
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It has been a banner year for homeowner association foreclosure lawyers, Peter & Freedman. They have been collecting untold amounts from victimized seniors and homeowners who fell into their legal traps in Riverside County, San Diego County and Orange County. Hundreds of seniors in Desert Crest Homeowners Association, other associations and their families are fighting their liens and lawsuits.This month Peters & Freedman lawyers had fellow lawyer Michael Kim unsucessfully attempt to overcollect tens of thousands of dollars from homeowner victims they terrorized in lawsuits by giving judges legal bills that included billings from other cases.
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DEVASTATION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Seniors forced to sell their trailer home shelters to pay homeowner association lawyers Peters & Freedman
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November 6, 2004
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David Osterpil © AHRC News Services
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Website:
AHRC News
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Approximately 150 liens were filed on homes. One resident reports that each homeowner had to pay about $9,000 - $6,000 of which went to the law firm of Peters and Freedman. The total bill is estimated at about $1,350,000. But that is not the end of the story. CLICK HERE TO VIEW FOX 6 NEWS REPORT ON SAN DIEGO HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION FORECLOSURES AND LAWSUITS BY PETERS & FREEDMAN. It is reported that about 50 seniors sold their homes at fire sale prices to local realtors in order to be able to pay the judgment. It is estimated that the realtors were snapping up $40,000 homes for $20,000.. Approximately 20 seniors died during this process.
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Homeowners may think that when they go to court, the two sides will both calmly tell the truth, and then a judge will calmly make a ruling. The following story may give you pause for thought. This story shows that when a homeowner goes to court against certain types of lawyers, the homeowner has to be prepared for anything - including this dirty pool lawyering. Homeowners report that this seems to be particularly true of homeowner association lawyers. Truth seems to be first casualty of such lawsuits.
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