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A Letter
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CAI Lawyers Who Make A Living Suing And Foreclosing On Association Homeowners Masquerade as Homeowner Friend in " Homeowner Advice" Columns
These columns are used as advertorials to refer homeowners to CAI lawyers
October 05, 2002
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HOA Voices
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HOA homeowners must be extremely careful these days about who they trust, imo. Had they been fully informed before they bought into an homeowners association, most probably would not have done so. But once they've signed on the dotted line, they're usually stuck with venal, dictatorial HOA Boards of Directors, as well as some unknowledgeable and/or homeowner supporters/lackeys of the Board.
What to do? Personally, I would not recommend lawsuits, or trying to change your state's HOA laws. Why? Because, as we all have learned through bitter, expensive experience, we usually lose. We lose not because we are wrong, but because the deck is stacked against us -- in our state legislatures and our courts -- before we even begin.
The very first thing we should do, imo, should be to learn all he can about our own HOA. Read your association documents and understand them thoroughly. Then, locate your state's HOA statutes online. Become very familiar with them. After both of those things are done, objectively evaluate the activities of the members of your Board of Directors. Nine times out of ten, when you compare what they are doing with what you've learned, you will find that one or more members of your Board are acting illegally. What do you do then?
Then you write the Board a factual letter detailing the problems you have found. Send the letter to them by Certified Mail. Wait a reasonable amount of time for a response. If the Board doesn't respond, or if the Board then starts harassing you, go public (letters to the editor, telephone local call-in talk shows, and alert local television stations). When doing these things, always make very sure that you relate facts, not suppositions. And even though you are probably very angry, try to avoid name-calling. It serves no useful purpose.
Good luck!
Posted Mar 7 2003 6:01PM CET
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Thank goodness in the "Golden" (where all of the Gold is in Davis' pocket) state of California we have the Los Angeles Times Common Interest Living Q&A column for homeowners, written by Donie Vanitzian and Stephen Glassman. The Los Angeles Times obviously wants to help homeowners and aren't about to answer to who has the most bucks.
No doubt in our minds that those two columnists are on the homeowner's side. Their advice has been extremely informative and helpful and will surely help us save us a ton of money and heartache in the future!! If we could have afforded to move we would have done so years and years ago. Several neighbors had moved because they hated it too.
Thanks also for all of the great information and news articles on this homeowner resource site. It has really opened our eyes to just how bad it is. It wasn't our imagination at all. It is a shame that homeowners have nowhere to turn to for help. We went to our mayor, assemblyman, senator, the attorney general offices, the department of insurance and even the police. They were about as useful as tits on a wart hog.
We wanted to see the financial books and records of the association. We wanted to know where our money was going. But we are left in the dark. Is that asking too much?
By the way, the links to all the other state's organizations have been very useful too. Especially Texas. We have forwarded a lot of the information on to friends and family all over so they don't make the same mistake we did.
Sincerely,
Stuck in a Turtle's Ass.
Posted Oct 16 2002 6:09AM CEST
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This same tactic was employed by the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper -- the largest newspaper circulating in Nevada -- to provide a top CAI operative, Barbara Holland, the ability to direct homeowners to CAI lawyers and managers in her "advice" column in the Sunday Real Estate section.
Holland used her column to promote her own CAI affiliated HOA property management company under the guise of "free advice" to homeowners, as well as being a referral for other CAI operatives who invaded Nevada after legislators enacted the Uniform Common Ownership Interest Act (UCOIA) in 1991.
Prior to the misguided enactment of CAI's "law," very few HOAs foreclosed on our homes in Nevada. Within two years after enactment of the UCOIA, however, Las Vegas courts were inundated with lawsuits filed by CAI lawyers trying to steal away our homes, assets and livelihoods, or suits filed by us homeowners trying to prevent the CAI operatives from terrorizing us.
In Nevada, many judges -- including one now on the Nevada Supreme Court -- have been "bought" by CAI campaign contributions. As a result, Nevada is NOT the place to buy property that's under HOA domination.
Those of us who tried to protect our homes from these terrorists have been crushed by crooked judges on CAI's payroll.
Former Abused Homeowner in Casa Vegas Condos
Las Vegas , Nevada
Posted Oct 7 2002 11:02PM CEST
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