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A News Report
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Who's Who in the California Homeowner Association Housing Industry?
February 20, 2005
By
Ann Roth
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Copyright Ann Roth
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Orange County, California -
The report was written by Julia Lave Johnston and Kimberly Johnston-Dodds (relations?) of the California Research Bureau. It includes references that read like a 'Who's Who' of the Homeowner Association Industry. Although this report is several years old, many of the players referenced are still very involved in the homeowner association housing industry.
The homeowner association industry is made up of members of the Community Associations Institute, the Urban Land Institute, ECHO, CLAC, PCAM, and includes vendor HOA lawyers, property managers, insurance brokers and agents, real estate brokers and agents, builders, developers, maintenance contractors and other common interest development so-called "professionals" whose livelihood depends upon the continued proliferation of HOA corporations.
Have the authors of this housing report omitted the consumer perspective?
They did not include or reference any correspondence or information submitted by the tenured Homeowner Advocate group, the American Homeowners Resource Center.
One of the first Homeowner's Bill of Rights was penned by numerous homeowners, published on the American Homeowners Resource Center and provided to the California legislators on July 24, l997.
They also failed to include a reference to the book referred to as the homeowner's bible - 'Villa Appalling! Destroying the Myth of Affordable Community Living' written by Donie Vanitzian and Stephen Glassman, or reference to the 'Associations' Q&A help column for homeowners in the Los Angeles Times written by the same authors.
Perhaps the biggest faux pas of this "report" is in the title itself:
COMMON INTEREST DEVELOPMENTS: HOUSING AT RISK?
It should read - COMMON INTEREST DEVELOPMENTS: HOMEOWNERS AT RISK!
While getting through some 90 pages of such research may bore you to tears, (as it doesn't exactly take a degree in rocket science to understand why the concept of neighbor controlling neighbor is doomed to failure), it is extremely important for HOA homeowners to know the 'Who's Who' of the homeowner association industry and to understand who may or may not be looking out for their best interest. Refer to pages 79-94.
The concluding paragraph of this report includes the following:
"A successful and viable CID is generally one in which homeowners assume an active role in the association's function........."
This statement is elementary at best. HOA homeowners who desire to assume an active role in the association's functions are intentionally left out of same because recalcitrant boards ignore the rules and laws.
Many HOA horror stories evolve from the cloak of secrecy worn by HOA boards of directors and their ilk. |
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Julia Lave Johnston - California Research Bureau filtered out pro-homeowner souces of information and wrote this pro-industry "report" for the anti-homeowner Senator Torlakson. .
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