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Mrs. Swindle loses House over $205 Delinquent Assessments

Judge orders sale of home even after assessments are paid

November 01, 1985

By AHRC News Services
Copyright © 1985



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12. Shame on you people... you know today you have weakened humanity and motherhood!  
  Hi all you people over there - who were in direct and indirect contact, influence or power that let you watch your systems and policies and perhaps your greed or laziness be more powerful than an old lady, that you had to separate her from her home .... shame on all of you! Does the "Terminator" know about whats going on here ??

This is totally unfair - all you people in the legal, logistics, government and the rest who watched and saw a "system" take over an old lady's house worth over $100,000 and sold it under her for about $10,000 for a measly $200 dues ....This is outrageous!

You guys - all of you should be ashamed of this. Think about this - would you allow this to happen to your mother ? If not, go look in the mirror for what you have all done - you have not just done your job, you have weakened a life provider to all of you - mother is that one....No one ever would love you more than GOD and perhaps a mother on this side of the heavens...

So, either you have fed your own with this blood money or hurt your "mom" by putting her on the road!!!

Shame on you whether you believe in political, logical, spiritual, physical, metaphysical or scientology or biology or zoology or any other lagos; you know today you have weakened humanity and motherhood!

THIS IS AMERICA!!! SHAME ON YOU!!!!
Posted Jul 18 2007 1:07AM CEST
 
  Lin Euge (View Profile)
Sunnyvale, California
 
11. The cannot forclose on a homestead in Florida for nonpayment of dues ...  
  The cannot forclose on a homestead in Florida for nonpayment of dues--------------
Posted Apr 12 2006 4:16PM CEST
 
  melvonna riggle (View Profile)
, Florida
 
10. The real leeches are the lawyers living in million dollar homes without the so called "benifit of homeowners associations "  
  Re: There has to be better ways to handle homeowner associaton back dues than foreclosing - I am a board member and unfortunately the laws tie our hands

Posted Mar 18 2006 4:51PM EST
Username withheld
, California


chicken shit Total chicken shit response from a piece of shit that cannot find a real job.

Oh yeah, (she,he) has one, sucking up to the managers that make their living off of our backs by telling us how to live.

and probally getting a monetary kickback from them.

If the above is not true

then

Stand up and speak your piece

If you are board memnber then speak up and collect the residents up with you. If you do not choose to do the right thing as a board member ?

The real leeches are the lawyers living in million dollar homes without the so called "benifit of homeowners associations "

Rise up Homeowners !!



Posted Mar 21 2006 11:23PM CET
 
  Username withheld
Iskand Lake, Illinois
 
9. There has to be better ways to handle homeowner associaton back dues than foreclosing  
  There has to be better ways to handle homeowner associaton back dues than foreclosing - I am a board member and unfortunately the laws tie our hands

Posted Mar 18 2006 10:51PM CET
 
  Username withheld
, California
 
8. This is extortion and the individuals should be reported and databased  
  This is extortion and the individuals involved in it should be reported and databased.

To protect both yourself and the public the names of all the individuals participating in this extortion racket - lawyer, manager, board members and homeowners association should be made public.

A public database of homeowner extortionists on the internet will help everyone.
Posted Oct 31 2005 5:14PM CET
 
  HOA Voices
, California
 
7. What can be done? Someone has to hear. This is ludicrous.  
  Our delinquent amount was $117 plus $40 late fees. The "collection fees" were $509 for sending 6 copies of the same letter, same date, certified. The total amount due to them was $687.86 by the time they were finished with that round.

They recorded a lien against my property and 2 months later sent me another letter stating that I had 10 days to pay this or foreclosure would begin. This letter did not list an amount. I borrowed the $687.86 that the previous letter stated was due and sent it to them by cashiers check.

I then received another letter stating that I owed them another $560.65 and if I did not pay them they would return my first cashier's check and begin foreclosure. Once again, I borrowed this money and I just sent it. This should not be legal and is past the point of any fairness or reasonableness. We hit a difficult time, borrowing an additional $1090.52 has hurt us even worse.

What can be done? Someone has to hear. This is ludicrous.
Posted Oct 23 2005 11:48PM CEST
 
  Username withheld
, California
 
6. If there was collusion between the attorney and the buyer of the property then this should be considered fraud and/or larceny and they both should face criminal prosecution.  
  It would appear that there is something wrong here.

If there was collusion between the attorney and the buyer of the property then this should be considered fraud and/or larceny and they both should face criminal prosecution. This must be the case since it is very hard to believe that at a legitimate auction that an realestate speculator wouldn't have offered at least half the value of the property.

One also wonders where the 1st mortgage holder was while this was happening. Does the buyer have to pay off the first mortgage, or was the 1st mortgage holder also robbed? If the buyer is liable for the mortgage, you would have to presume that they knew the amount outstanding before they bid on it.

I would think that lenders would be interested in lobbying to have this changed so that the Homeowner Association lien was at least subordinate to the 1st mortgage like it is in Arizona.

It appears that part of the issue is the auction sale. Perhaps this anachronistic provision is what needs to be changed -- if the house was simply sold through a broker for the best offer in 90 days, it wouldn't have gone for such a low figure.

Posted Sep 18 2004 1:26AM CEST
 
  James Tyrer
Green Valley, Arizona
 
5. Homeowner Associations help HOA attorney's to take people's homes away  
  How much time,or how many day's does one have to be late for a lien to be filed.I seem's like these attorney's keep charging legal fee's,rather than working out a beneficial plan for everyone.It seem's like they keep adding fee's,and set up homeowner's to "fail",by setting up plans that no-one could sucessfully adhere too.

We have our mortgage, maintenance, car,phone, electricity, taxes, gas, groceries, child-care,etc.

Who makes $200-$300.00 an hour? .No-one except attorneys. And why do HOA's want to keep giving the HOA attorney's money(the Homeowner's money)

Why can't the HOA work in a therapeutic way directly with the homeowner.

Once the attorney's get involved,the HOA attorneys,the homeowner is frequently doomed.

That is what happened to us.We acted in good faith,but every other day,the law firm found something to bill us for.One wind's up on a nightmare merry-go round.We just wanted to pay our lien.

We thought we could work with the HOA's attorneys,we didn't know they wanted to financially cripple us,and they still won't give us an accountying of all monies paid to them.

They are "DEBT Collector's,they must abide by the Fair Credit Reporting Act",but despite faxes,certified letters,e-mails,they "DO NOT WANT TO PRODUCE an accounting of what we paid"They tell us "get a court order"

HOA's have to be regulated,and the legal system enables and it appear's to assist these HOA attorney's to take people's homes away,people who just want to work out a fair resolution.
Posted Sep 14 2004 12:57AM CEST
 
  hortensia rodon (View Profile)
miami, Florida
 
4. You sound like some kind of Homeowner Association lawyer defending the Homeowner Association.- Take a hike if you are  
  Re; Comment # 3::. Do not get upset about a homeowner association lawyer doing his job

Had enough money ?

WHY in the first place should she have had to spend it on " Legal Counsel" ?

This is the very same thing that I am saying. Homeowner Associans are nothing more than a bunch of maggots living off of our backs.

WHEN are YOU gonna wake up?

I don't know about the rest of you but I am about ready to toss the homeowner association out my neck of the woods.

and P.S. Dude

You sound like some kind of Homeowner Association lawyer defending the Homeowner Association.

Take a hike if you are

If you ain't then I would restructure your attitude to save not only your own hide but the rest of ours also.

Posted Aug 17 2004 2:23AM CEST
 
  Reg Bowyer
Iskand Lake, Illinois
 
3. Do not get upset about a homeowner association lawyer doing his job  
  Sounds like this lady had enough money to obtain a lawyer and seek their counsel on the validity of HOA fees, rather than actually paying the HOA dues.

The basis of HOA is to ensure everyone's property values and that the community is kept up and attractive, safe, etc. This takes money and everyone who bought a home is obligated, equally.

The HOA should have had more heart and negotiated a monthly fee and then requested a "special" HOA meeting to discuss this issue, as a community.

The HOA could have easily taken up a collection for the lady's dues, since she was hard-pressed to pay this year. Then if the same issue came up next year, they could have been more "legal" and enforced the dues.

You cannot let even one person to bend the rules, then everyone will and then how will the community keep up the public areas, fight off businesses that could lower their home values and keep order?

Someone has to do it and it is done by every person in that community, thus it isn't the lawyers to blame, but the community for not getting involved. No one wants to take responsibility anymore and do whatever they want with complete disregard.

Get involved and change how things are handled by the HOA, not get upset about a lawyer doing his job.
Posted Aug 6 2004 2:02AM CEST
 
  Username withheld
, Mississippi
 
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