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Information about Community Associations Instiitute - CAI - HOA Foreclosure Lawyers Trade Group
Community Associations Instiitute - CAI - HOA Foreclosure Lawyers Trade Group
7700 Little River Turnpike - Suite 404
Alexandria, Virginia 22003
Phone: (703) 750-3644     Fax: (703) 941-1740
http://www.caionline.org
Trademember: CAI Foreclosure lawyers lobbying for Non-judicial foreslosures in homowner associations
Rank: No ranking.
Summary: Comment 7. A lot of people on this forum will tell you not to go to Executive Council of Homeowners - ECHO, Community Associations Instiitute - CAI, or California Association of Community Managers - CACM for recommendations because these organizations are part of the "evil HOA racket." Bill Mills - November 19, 2007
• Tax ID 521074939 - 501 (c)6 Non-profit organization (per Ann Byrd - Controller - September 7, 2004)
• A trade lobby group for homeowner association foreclosure lawyers and their litigation support groups.
• For many years, CAI has been misrepresenting to the public and legislators that they are an
Other Information: "educational" organization and represent association homeowners and homeowner associations. Trade publication: Common Ground
• In 1990 advocates from AHRC began broadcasting on their radio program and via newsletters, faxes and direct testimony at legislative hearings that CAI did not represent homeowners and that the laws CAI sponsored e.g. AB 1545 - putting assessement liens before first trust deeds and AB 1793 - giving HOAs (boards and lawyers) powers to fine and foreclose on homes, helped lawyers take homes and life savings for violations and fees manufactured by CAI.
• Homeowner Association Foreclosure Lobby Group Requests Information On Homeowner Advocacy Groups - An email from Community Associations Institute (CAI) - Chris Durso - February 21, 2006

Now that the media and legislators are better informed, CAI claims they are , "a national nonprofit association created to educate and represent the nation's 250,000 community association."

Very few homeowner associations pay to belong to CAI. CAI asks its managers and other vendors to pay memberships for board members. In addition when these board members are given "memberships," board members certainly have no ability to give CAI the right to "represent "the association without the permissions from all of the owners..

Tom Skiba - CEO
Frank Rathburn - VP Communications Work:(703)797-6261, or Home: (703) 256-7731, or FRathbun@caionline.org
Alexa - Admin Assistant
Alexa Stanton - Administrative Assistant
CAI College of Community Association lawyers - a group of foreclosure lawyers who lobby, spread and profit greatly from the homeowner foreclosure laws they helped write in the various states.
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  • Ruling on home foreclosures will stop Gestapo-type sets-outs like Wenonah Blevins by legal tyranny - Geneva Kirk Brooks
  • CAI Lawyers Slaughter Homeowner Protection Bill - AHRC News Services
  • Homeowner Association Foreclosure Lobby Group Requests Information On Homeowner Advocacy Groups - AHRC News Services
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