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Sharon, I understand you are in Palm Desert or Palm Springs a landmine for homeowners. The people and the authorities need to know this.
Cities give business licenses to management companies. We have been asking cities to license lawyers. Homeowner association lawyers come into cities , sue all our businesses and walk off with millions without paying any city taxes. They should pay taxes like every other business. They write tons of harassing letters just to empty out our maintenance dues, everybody's life savings and then take our homes.
The city should also know about Desert Crest seniors lawsuit. Print out the press release and articles from the AHRC site and give it the council members. The streets in Desert Crest are public. The club is outside the development. The private club should have a license from the city. How can the city license a private business which forecloses on homes to collect club fees?
Ask them to have police department check into possible economic fraud on the seniors by auditing the association books and records.
The club owner was also the developer. He advertised cheap lots and seniors from Canada and all over the States flocked in to retire here in the sun in "affordable" trailer homes. The city has some responsibility. They should not license businesses that are fronts for home foreclosure scams.
The county supervisors, after reviewing the problems referred these victims to the District Attorney(DA). The DA told them, "We are busy with rapists and murderers". Tell the city that the DA's resources are depleted on the huge numbers of rapists and murders attacking Palm Desert residents.
Ask the city to provide some services for the property taxes you pay.
Four seniors died during this battle. Some gave their lots to the club for lawyers fees and walked away from their homes. A senior lawyer helping them also died. A activist victim among them has had a heart attack and now needs a kidney transplant. The club owner wants dues from several grandmothers in their late eighties and nineties who are house bound. lives on social security and cannot afford the medications they need to live.
The Desert Sun did write a story after alot of persuasion. CAI lawyer Margaret Wangler of the Fiore lawyer group writes a "homeowner advice" column for the Desert Sun. Wangler refers everyone to CAI lawyers. The seniors called every CAI lawyer in town for representation and all said they only worked for homeowner associations.
Wangler is also the current Desert Crest Association lawyer. She replaced Peters and Freedman who went on to work for the private club foreclosing on the seniors after helping the association change the CCRs to mandate fees to the private club.
Judge allows RICO allegations to proceed in law suit against Peters & Freedman
These are just some ideas for talks to local authories, public and media.
Good luck on writing your 3 minute talk for city council and cable TV.
Sue Chandler
Reprinted from the HOA forums on AHRC
Posted Jun 25 2003 6:46PM CEST
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I am pleased to announce that am out of the office on maternity leave. I will return on June 15, 2003. If you need assistance right away, please feel free to call the office at (760) 568-0408. Thank you! -
Kim Glassman
on 5/22/03 7:25 AM, Glassman, Kimberly at Senator Battins's Chief of Staff
Posted May 22 2003 5:49PM CEST
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Dear AHRC Editor:
I deeply regret Senator Jim Battin of Palm Springs, California allowed greed and special interests violate special trust. All officials take a state and federal oath to uphold the constitution and protect the health and safety of all constituents, not merely trial lawyers who have become a bunch of hungry sharks and slimey bottom feeders.
Battin should be impeached for supporting an illegal "De Facto" law he knows is not legal and placing so many seniors lives in such a stressful situation he increases medicare costs at a time medicare is is in the red and seniors suffer more illness from stress then aging or disease.
This group should send a photo story to get support for a hearing in congress by the House Committee on Banking. Finance and Housing, and picket the office of the Gov. Davis, because he also has an obligation to provide equal protection to all constituents.
They can file a complaint FTC(Federal Trade Commission) of unfair business under the Clayton Act because there was no contract disclosure of changing rules or future obligations HOAs hide behind in that situation. This is the old loan shark and pirate acts preying the meek, the weak and uninformed.
Seniors should their First Amendment Rights to Petition the Congress for a hearing to redress their grievance on this issue by asking a federal senator from their district to schedule it in their behalf. All they need do is draw up a Petition explaining this De Facto Breach of Contract Grievance and send the Federal Rep or senator of their choice to deliver to the House Committee that was headed by Maryland Senator Paul Sarbane.
They should send a group to meet with the rep selected at his or her local home office on an an appointment basis with a press release to the media such request is being made.
I wish them every luck in fighting new age piracy encouraged by a rip-off unethical state Bar whose sloggans is, "Anything goes" and will eventually end up facing a class action lawsuit for failing to enforce their code of ethics etc; unfair business; aiding and abetting lawyers to help clients create a monopoly on property rights based on extortion!
The County Board of Commissioners and State Attorney are violating their obligation to provide equal protection for all taxpayers' civil rights, and human rights. This outrage is violating everything America stands for and those who hold elective office should be impeached for selling out to pirates who violate the constitutional rights of senior taxpayers by hiring law firms to protect their extortionist business.
The old Mafia protected seniors and children, and extorted protection from business firms. These lawyers and managers rob the poor who build business because the manufacturers of Mobile Homes will lose more sales now.
During the fifties I was a reporter with a national publication called, "Mobile Living" out of Chicago and the Mobile Industry had an association to help mobile owners live more safely in parks.
I will check the Internet today and see if I can locate them because this dirty fight has national implications for the entire industry and those who built it through freedom of choice.
We cannot give up our right to the pursuit of happiness by allowing cut throats to drive us to the bankrupt courts and I would contact the IRS to check out their investments?
With that much profit on a such a cheap club for an aging bingo crowd, they hit the jackpot every week and don't even need a lottery!
--- Willow Vance
American Federation of Press Woman
Posted Feb 1 2003 4:57AM CET
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We called Battin's Sacramento offfice to speak to him about extortion seniors in Desert Crest Homeowners Association.
Ken DeVore, a fellow said he had received emails but was not familiar with it. Battin is in the process of setting up a commission to look into law firms extorting immigrant businesses in the desert area.
We asked Heather McCue in Palm Desert ofice to speak to someone handling the immigrant scamming. She' ll have one of the four policy consultants call us.
We left another request for Battin to look into introducing legislation to protect homeowners from legal and developer scams.
Posted Jan 31 2003 10:21PM CET
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Despite numerous requests to Jim Battin, the California state senator for Desert Hot Springs, and his staff, he has refused to do anything about the plight of the many seniors living at the Desert Crest development.
They have had numerous court rulings in their favor, but the developer and board have sicced predatory hired gun homeowner association collection lawyers.
The lawyers have kept the legal meters running and terrorized the elderly with threats of liens and foreclosures.
A group of concerned citizens has announced that they are planning to picket Battin's office, and are looking into the possibility of recalling him.
If you can help please call: (949)366-2125
Posted Jan 31 2003 7:39AM CET
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Both Democrats and Republicans introduce thousands of new laws in return for campaign bribes,
Battin and his staff who "can't do anything for the people in his district because the Democrats will not let them"
They have been pretending to work "for the people" for the past twelve years?
If he does not respond, we will organize a picket and initiate a recall
Posted Jan 31 2003 4:52AM CET
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I called Battin's office again.
Bill Lohr, a new staff member stated that Frank de Lima , Kimberly Glassman and the staff had received the information on the seniors at Desert Crest.
Kimberly said to me, "It's a Judicial Issue" and again said she would get back to me on this.
I also explained to her that it was also a legislative issue. Gray Davis, as a lawmaker, had asked the CAI lawyers to write the homeowner association laws and had given instructions to make sure that "the lobbyists were taken care of." The lobbyists included the homeowner association collection lawyers. Their former president was the one who drafted the bill.
Some of these collection lawyers have been creating baseless lawsuits and stealing the life savings and homes of citizens since. Jim Battin knew this even before he became a lawmaker.
Texas and Arizona lawmakers are looking to change homeowner association laws. California has far greater problems. The current lawmakers created these problems and are living off them.
Seniors from Canada and other states were snared into the desert that lies in Battin's district and have been victimized in some cases for 20 years. Some have even died from the stress and resultant strokes.
Bill Lohr stated by way of defence that the Republicans are in a minority in the California legislature. He said that the Democrat controlled legislature has not been letting any laws proposed by Republicans go through . He said that Jim is not opposed to carrying correcting legislation, but it would be "merely symbolism." (We've heard this from politicians who have no intention of doing anything for the citizens when there is no payoff for them.)
We asked him: "Isn't Mr. Battin and his staff being paid to use the legislative process to protect the citizens? Please have him took into these seniors losing their life savings and homes illegally in such large numbers. Would you want this to happen to your grandmother?"
Posted Jan 28 2003 9:12PM CET
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NBC has a new investigative unit for Orange County, Riverside and Orange County. We requested they report to the community news on homeowner associations.
1, Homes are being disenfranchised from the owners
2, Extortion by lawyers
3. Continuing lawsuits, liens and foreclosures to collect fines and lawyers fees.
Posted Jan 28 2003 8:40PM CET
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To: Bill Lohr
It was a pleasure speaking to you.
Thank you for :
1. taking the time to listen to the story of the Desert Crest homeowners
2. promising to print out the story from the AHRC website and give it to Senator Battin and Frank deLima.
3. assuring us you will get back to us with Senator Battin's response.
We will convey this to the Desert Crest homeowners so they can follow up with Senator Battin.
The AHRC volunteers
Posted Jan 28 2003 2:41AM CET
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To: Kimberly Glassman
Chief of Staff for Senator Jim Battin - California State Senate
Dear Kim:
Per your request today, we are again sending our message to Senator Battin in writing.
We have left messages in his Sacramento office and with Frank de Lima, in his Palm Desert office.
As the lawmaker for Palm Desert, Senator Battin has a responsibility to protect citizens in his district from fraudulent mass foreclosures by homeowner association collection lawyers.
This is not a judicial problem. Three judges, including the appeals court, have told these lawyers that these collections are illegal.
Since 1996 Senator Battin has worked to protect builders from homeowner association lawyers who are driving builders out of business with construction defect lawsuits.
He now needs to work on laws to protect homeowners who are being stressed to death, driven into powerty and homelessness by the same homeowner association lawyers..
Click here to see what an Arizona lawmaker is doing to protect his constituents from such foreclosures.
Please have Senator Battin solve this problem.
Thank you.
AHRC
Posted Jan 27 2003 6:45PM CET
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