A Guide to Writers and Journalists

June 13, 2003

By AHRC News Services
Copyright ahrc.com

Recently a British free lance journalist on assignment to write an article about homeowner associations for a financial publication called AHRC for information. We provided him with information and then sent him a list of articles to read before calling us back again for additional information.

We are publishing the list of articles we sent him. We think this list will give other writers a thumbnail view of homeowner associations as well.

Dear Jounalist:

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We are sending you links to several articles . They should make you expert on the dynamics of homeowner associations in America.

Thank you for calling. Will be happy to answer your questions when you call again. Please email us first if there are statistics you still need.

If you'd like to speak to some pro-homeowner institutional lenders, lawyers or brokers, writer or others, we will be happy to provide you with contact information.

Here is a list :

1. One Way Ticket to Hell - the Homeowner Association Theme Song by Country & Western Singer Harry Flagle and Gator Communities
(An animation E-card by AHRC about alligators - lawsuits in gated communities)

2. Victimized Homeowners celebrate Christmas - 12 days of Christmas - and working for Peace, Freedom & Justice
(An animation Christmas card by AHRC - the 12 gifts represent various problems in homeowner associations)

3. Ten things your homeowners association won't tell you.
Smart Money - Wall Street Journal article and Nellie Huang's note to AHRC
(A well written article and one the the first comprehensive ones that exposed homeowner association problems in America)


4. THE LAND GRAB - THE NATIONAL EPIDEMIC - The American housing racket
(The dangers of homeowner associations - it is a trap to steal property)


5. Behind the Orange Curtain - Homeowners victims of organized housing scams from Orange County Government Offices
(Defective homes , failing slopes, and liabilites sold to unsuspecting buyers - a corporate-government scam in Orange County )


6. Stop Me Before I Sue Again - I have lost our retirement, our kids' education and our savings to a homeowners association lawyer
( Homeowner association boards and their lawyers file lawsuits without the consent or knowlege of the owners. The owners are mired in lawsuits for years, unable to refinace or sell homes and forced to pay hundreds of thousand of dollars to finance the lawyers and, managers and their "experts". )


7. Turmoil in Paradise - Homeowners in Legal and Economic Quagmire
(Defective homes by builders, falling slopes cities pawn off on homeowners, lawsuits and bankruptcies for homeowners )

8. Elderly Face Retirement Nightmares in California Homeowners Association
Many losing homes and life savings to CAI collection lawyers' rackets
(Builders, collection lawyers and politicians scamming seniors lured into cheap desert homes)


9. 20/20 Homeowner Associations Video
Private Governments? Critics Say Homeowners Associations Can Be Too Strict
(ABC 20/20 exposes the collection lawyers foreclosures and violence in homeowner associations)

10. The Flag Gets Expensive - Former marine fights for his flag and his home
( Florida's governor Jeb Bush comes to rescue right to patriotism and homestead )

11: Remove Foreclosure Powers of Homeowner Associations - Access to this Home Equity Attracts Specialty Law Firms to a Volume Business
(The basic legislative flaw in homeowner associations)


12. Homeowner Association Insurance, A Sword, Not Shield
(Directors & Officers Insurance policies being misused by the insurance industry and their salesmen, the collection lawyers)

13: Privatopia - Homeowner Associations And The Rise of Residential Private Government
(Evan McKenzie's a former homeowner association lawyer, now a political science professor authors a study on homeowner associations)


14: Boss Thy Neighbor - Homeowner associations are an increasingly prevalent — and troubled — form of local government
(Chris Conte of Governing.com - Congressional Quarterly reviews homeowner associations)

15: Fines Make Fine Homeowner Associations - On the Civilizing of Homeowner Associations
(Some British humor for you )

16: Petition to Recall California governor Gray Davis - the architect of home foreclosure rackets
(California victims rally to recall governor Gray Davis, the architect of the homeowner association foreclosure racket.)


Sincerely,

The Staff
AHRC News Services - an interactive news center for homeowner associations