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Our monthly HOA meeting was held Tuesday. Other than the board and managment, only my spouse was present The board refuses to allow me to attend claiming I'm not a homeowner??? BS!!!!
How pathetic that NO ONE else turned out to stand up for their architectural requests, protest the parking rules that everyone is complaining about or take a basic interest in how their property values are deteriorating.
I can't get handicap accessible gates on our patios or reasonable exterior parking because the jerky board members don't believe I'm disabled! It pretty *bleeping* obvious I'm disabled when I can't walk unaided. They just want to pry into my medical history.
My "right to privacy" is proteected under Articles IX and X of the US Constitution and Article I of the California State Constitution. Medical records/ personal medical information is protected under HIPPA (federal) and California Medical Records Privacy Law. So, if anyone , anywhere in the country is having problems with their HOA prying into personal medical info, threaten them with harrassment for violating the law.
Two other homeowners were denied screen doors with pet door inserts ALL BECAUSE 2 OUT OF 3 BOARD MEMBERS DON"T LIKE ANIMALS! Next thing they'll probalby try is banning pets altogether. They've already chased most of the families and anybody of ethnic minority out of this complex.
Our association is Cabernet Vineyards Homeowners Association in San Jose. The management is Compass Management Company. Compass owner is Kurt Shenefiel. I would not recommend them.
Posted Nov 17 2006 3:32AM CET
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Christine Robinett
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The attorneys are Peters and Freedman for my association. They also advised how to do the last voting process for the board members the auditors were home owners.
Posted Nov 16 2006 2:59PM CET
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Currently live in Orange County with a HOA that board members are always being wrongly advised by the management company whose attorneys' are Peters and Freedman (Bad Boys).
I have been charged fees even when I had agreements and checks returned because they did not like the way the payment was sent in.
The board has these parking rules for most of the community but is afraid of others so they get by with everything. Security bites because it's only done when the security company feels like.
They take away property by claiming the association has the right to do whatever they want.
Board members are allowed to do whatever they want to in Common Area around their homes and fine others for trimming the plants.
WHAT A JOKE so much more
Username withheld
Anaheim, California
Posted Nov 15 2006 10:32PM CET
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I am a member of a concerned homeowners watchdog association at Sun Lakes Country Club in Banning.
Our management company is Professional Community Management (PCM) with headquarters in Orange County. Without going into details at this time, I would appreciate an opportunity to discuss the problems our HOA is experiencing with PCM, the representative general manager and the Orange County law firm Fiore, Racobs & Powers.
They have made a significant reduction in our reserve funds (approximately $3M in the past several years promoting expensive frivolous projects on facilities that were not needed (modifications to a North Club House for approximately $700K and a security gate system that was not broken for approximately $600K)
A lot of the problem stems from elder abuse by the general manager by controlling elections with a system that allows district delegates to cast votes at their discretion when a district does not have a 50% quorum.
I look forward to meeting with you to provide supporting information.
Respectfully submitted,
Marvin H. Seiver
Sun Lakes Country Club
Banning, California 92220
Posted Nov 15 2006 8:06PM CET
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Marvin Seiver
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Banning, California |
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I would add a "ditto" to the three previous comments.
Please let us know when and where you publish your findings. Please widen your investigation to cover other regions of California. I have exactly the same complaints and then some as poster #1.
Posted Nov 15 2006 9:24AM CET
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Christine Robinett
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You bet we are! How about this one in Irvine, California..
We decide to buy a home. We are told there is an HOA. We get the CCR's. OK - not so bad. Little did we realize, there is a master and a sub-association. We didn't get the CCR's of the Master association that control this swimming pool and small park area until many months after we move in.
Not only did we find out we are paying dues to two different associations, but one of these associations funds a pool area. You see, the dues were lumped together in one sum on the bill.
This pool area is a battle ground in the neighborhood. There has been a lawsuit filed some years ago because of a city swim league that uses the pool for practices and swimming meets.
We pay a lot of money and assume more liability and don't get to use the pool like we want to in the summertime. It's not a year round facility.
Now, because of that lawsuit, the HOA is required to give the homeowners two lanes of space out of six lanes of space to use during the swim team practices that take place from spring to the end of summer. Gee how nice. Just try to take your family, and a couple of friends and squeeze into just two lap lanes of a shallow end of a pool and of course - no pool toys are allowed because it interferes with swim team practices.
None of this is in those CCR's. IF we had received the complete CCR's of BOTH associations, we would have NEVER bought here. Especially knowing this over bearing schedule where the pool facility is just taken over in the summertime with swim team practices during the week and swim meets on weekends where the pool is completely closed for the day.
Even though there is a court order for the HOA to leave two lanes open all the time. They don't. When the swim meets are held, the entire facility is closed to the rest of homeowners who are not a part of the swimming league.
I guess the message is this - just because a realtor tries to sell you all those so called amenities - swimming pools, tennis courts, parks, etc. - don't fall for it. There is a good chance those areas are being taken over by special interest groups who are also deeply entrenched on the HOA board - kids on the swim team, tennis club members, soccer clubs practicing in the parks, etc. etc.
Just because you pay for it does not mean you will get to use it at your leisure.
Before you buy a home in an HOA in Irvine California - find out if a swim team monopolizes the so called "common" area pools.
Posted Nov 15 2006 5:59AM CET
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Pink Flamingo
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PLEASE CONSIDER OTHER AREAS AND STATES AS WELL!!!!!!!!!
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA IS NOT ALONE, BY ANY MEANS!!!!
JUST ASK THOSE WHOM HAVE BEEN VICTIMIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sincerely,
cs
Posted Nov 14 2006 6:16PM CET
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cynthis stephens
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When your report is published, please come back and tell us where we can read it. All documentation of HOA shenanigans is eagerly wanted.
Posted Nov 14 2006 5:46PM CET
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Username withheld
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I have much information that would be interesting to any investigator concerning a home owner association in Thousand Oaks, Ventura County.
If your investigations widens, please let me know how I might provide this information to you.
This relates to
• changes in CC&Rs that many owners aren't aware of
• board member not paying dues and
• the property management company falsifying the records to hide it
• extreme and blatant favoritism with serious harrassment to others when they speak their concerns about the behavior of the HOA
• inability to see financial records, request meeting miuntes, obtain a copy of the blanket insurance policy covering the association
• lack of maintenance on roofs and refusal to be responsible for the roof's failure when it finally fails, the list goes on.
Posted Nov 14 2006 9:06AM CET
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Username withheld
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