For all HOA and non-HOA Homeowners

April 20, 2007

By Jan Jackson (View author info)

And So It Begins.... "LAW OFFICES ANNOUNCE INVESTIGATION OF RICO ACT AND OTHER CLAIMS AGAINST HOA ATTORNEYS AND MANAGERS"

"The Law Offices of Gottschalk & Associates announced on March 21, 2007 that it is launching a RICO investigation of attorneys and management companies for homeowners associations in California ... RICO stands for the "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act."

RICO... Doncha just love the sound of that word? Just kinda rolls right off yore tongue, don't it -- 'specially if'n you live in an HOA.

The above-mentioned investigation, and its following lawsuit, along with one other like it, is taking place in California right now. As far as can be ascertained, we here in Colorado appear to have exactly the same kinds of power-and-money-grubbing HOA attorneys (and others in the HOA industry) problems as California does. So, are Colorado HOA homeowners going to begin filing RICO lawsuits?

Probably, once our HOA and non-HOA homeowners find out that they can.

Take Bill Johnson, for example. He's the Teller County homeowner who we've all come to know as the man who suffered massive construction defects in his new home in Florissant by an apparently incompetent (?), lazy (?), politically connected (?), racketeering (?) Teller County contractor (who I recently heard has left the state of Colorado) might be able to sue a lot of people under RICO. Who would those people be? Ohhhh, people like state legislators, county commissioners, city council members, many non-elected public officials (local and state), and anybody else who was involved with the aforementioned construction defects.

Bill already appears to be loaded for bear about what's happened to him, and we Teller County homeowners are all standing right beside him as he tries to punish the guilty and recoup his financial losses. He will be holding his first public meeting about dealing with all the issues and people concerned with his home's construction defects on April 24th, from 6pm to 8pm, in Woodland Park (the Cultural Center right next to the WP library). I will be attending his first meeting, of course, as will every HOA and non-HOA homeowner that I know.

After Bill gets his meetings off the ground and he is on the road to a successful resolution to his construction defects problems, I will begin my homeowners association (HOA) meetings here in Teller County. My main focus will be (1) to listen to the problems attendees are having with their HOAs and to try to suggest ways they can help themselves in their individual HOAs without spending a fortune in legal fees until (2) We The People (voters) can repeal CCIOA in November of this year. After CCIOA is actually repealed by Colorado voters, we HOA homeowners will no longer be burdened with power-and-money-seeking legislators, developers, builders, and the whole huge HOA industry invading and destroying our beautiful state, as well as no longer being forced to live in ecologically and financially destructive, dictatorial HOA gulags.

Remember, CCIOA (the "Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act") is a bunch of Colorado laws that mandate -- MANDATE -- how we homeowners will live in our own homes and our own communities through the machinations of often power-and-money-seeking HOA boards of directors. HOA boards of directors who often claim to be just neighborly "elected" volunteers but who very often (if not always) just have hidden agendas, i.e., dictatorial plans about controlling the ecology and finances of all HOA homeowners. These HOA dictators and their lawyers are not interested in establishing a responsible, law-abiding community of homeowners who are just trying to hold home and hearth together as best they can while they work hard to raise their families, or, a community where people can retire in peace and quiet without little HOA dictators telling them exactly how they should think and live.

Stay tuned. Things up here in Teller County are about to begin to take a turn for the better. And RICO, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, is just one of the things that is going to help all intelligent, rational, honest Teller Country homeowners (HOA and non-HOA) do it.