The massive collusion between State legislators and foreclosure lawyers

March 30, 2008

By Jan Jackson (View author info)

The American Homeowners Resource Center (AHRC) has been a source of helpful information and a beacon of hope for America's beleaguered homeowners since 1997. Families who lived in corrupt and dictatorial homeowners associations (HOAs) had, at last, a place to go to find help for the ecologically and financailly devastating things that were happening to them at the hands of their HOAs' boards of directors (whose strings were being pulled by their HOAs' Community Associations Institute (CAI) lawyers. Many CAI lawyers are also lobbyists of legislators in every state in these United States.)

What HOA homeowners are (then and now) faced with is massive collusion between State legislators and Community Association Institute Association (CAI) lobbyists toward the ends of enacting laws that can and does enslave every homeowner in this country to their undemocratic, i.e., dictatorial will, once they buy into corporate HOA housing. Assisting state legislators and CAI lobbyists in doing that are HOA boards of directors and their HOA CAI lawyers.

The fraudulent "game" many, if not most, HOA Presidents (and their HOA boards of directors) and CAI lawyers "play" in HOAs is to first run an HOA homeowner out of money (lawyers fees and other trumped-up costs) as fast as they can -- especially when the homeowner is elderly and/or infirm. Once out of money, the homeowner can no longer defend him- or herself against their improper onslaughts. At that point, many if not most HOA CAI lawyers will foreclose on the homeowner's home, often leaving the homeowner penniless and destitute.

Over the years, the AHRC Web site ( www.ahrc.com ) has been very successful in bringing HOA homeowners together so that they can give each other the benefit of their HOA experiences and learning, which helps each of them learn how to fight back against their destructive-to-things-and-people HOA dictators. In fact, AHRC has been so successful in doing this that the CAI is now apparently feeling that AHRC is threatening their power-and-money empire. For example, a few months ago, AHRC was "hacked" and went offline for a few weeks. Who hacked AHRC? We may never know, but we can certainly make an educated guess. Currently, CAI lawyers are trying to improperly "take over" the AHRC web site.

We The People HOA homeowners are determined to fight for AHRC's Constitutional Rights until we win AHRC's release from the destructive-to-people-and-things tentacles of CAI lawyers and their cohort Judges (see article below).

Jan Jackson - AHRC Edito
HOA Homeowner Advocate and Homeowner
Florissant, Colorado

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ANTI-FORECLOSURE WEBSITE IS THREATENED WITH FORECLOSURE

AHRC.com at risk of shut down by powerful realty interests

March 14, 2008

By Danny Schechter
New York, New York -

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.

In that case, an off shore bank had brought the action to stop the leaking of alleged improprieties. In this case, realtors and a notoriously anti-homeowner law firm, Peters and Freedman is threatening AHRC.com (The American Homeowner's Resource Center) which stands up for aggrieved homeowners.

"This case epitomizes the struggle we are in" says Elizabeth McMahon who runs AHRC News based in San Juan Capistrano, California. "It is a conflict between human rights and property rights with avaricious lawyers and corrupted courts trying to silence a voice of homeowners."

THE THREAT

The Peters and Freedman law firm which represents more than 700 homeowners associations is trying to seize the site's domain name as an extension of a battle with a homeowner who insists she is being wronged by the courts who are enforcing the rights of corporately controlled homeowner associations over the rights of property holders. Compounding the problem are state laws, passed by the power of the Real Estate Lobby, that force homeowners to join and pay dues to these company-union type organizations that operate undemocratically and then dictate to them with little right of appeal appeal.

This week, Homeowner Association foreclosure lawyers Peters & Freedman are asking an Orange County Superior Court to shut down the homeowners networking, publishing and communications website ahrc.com. The AHRC says they are misrepresenting the facts in a fraudulent manner -- in much the same way that subprime loads were made.

This case is on appeal but Judge Clay Smith, (who was challenged for bias but did not contest it and hence is removed from the case), signed a judgment for "Sanctions" of $40,000 after homeowners filed a SLAPP suit in their own defense. The case is currently before the Orange County Commissioner Jane Myers.

THE SITE

Homeowners shunned by local political representatives, local media, and courts began their own media, networking, publishing and communications website ahrc.com in 1997. It soon became a heavily trafficked and popular website for homeowners, media, public officials and businesses reaching 2.5 to 3 million hits a month.

It has been relied on by virtually every media organization for information on homeowner associations - including, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX. If the Ahrc.com website is closed down, homeowners around the country would be dramatically impacted because these media organizations would not be able to give information on homeowner associations and homeowner complaints to their readers/viewers.

AHRC.com carried no ads and is not a business and receives no funding from government, businesses or individuals. the website is a volunteer grassroots public service effort by several homeowners devoted to providing a voice for homeowners.

SOME BACKGROUND

"Peters & Freedman is trying to steal the ahrc.com website," says Elizabeth McMahon and "shut out information on foreclosure fraud from reaching other homeowners, government officials and the world. Peters & Freedman have been defendants in several RICO and fraudulent foreclosure lawsuits."

LINKS TO MORE INFORMATION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Seniors forced to sell their trailer home shelters to pay homeowner association lawyers Peters & Freedman.

Investigation on Homeowner Association Foreclosure Filings - Part I - Reveals Serious Flaws By Lawyers Peters & Freedman

Investigation on Homeowner Association Foreclosure Filings - Part 2 - The Hockleys Seek Restitution Of Their Home From Peters & Freedman

ON WIKILEAKS.ORG CASE - Bank Moves to Withdraw Its Suit Against Wikileaks Site

CONTACT:

Elizabeth McMahon
AHRC News Services
P. O. Box 97
San Juan Capistrano, California 92693
(949) 366-2125
http://www.ahrc.com

Other Internet Publication that published this Domain Foreclosures in America story

US: Anti-Foreclosure Website Is Threatened With Foreclosure - Mathaba News Agency
A MEDIACHANNEL ACTION ALERT: Stop Foreclosure of A Website

Notes: Publisher are free to re-publish this Media Alert as long as it includes a link back to the AHRC.com source url.