KHOU CBS Channel 11 Reports On HOA Abuse: See this exclusive on the CAI affiliated special interest lawyers (click title link to view video)-
Going head to head with homeowners' associations
08:32 AM CDT on Thursday, September 28, 2006
By Dave Fehling / 11 News
Click to watch video
If you own your home, you may belong to a homeowner’s association. They’re supposed to work to keep up the neighborhood.
But some of them may be out of control.
There’s a continuing controversy over powerful associations that have the ultimate weapon: the ability to take your home.
What’s in these letters kept this homeowner awake, they raised his blood pressure and made one woman want to hire a lawyer.
“That night, I couldn’t go to sleep,” said condo owner Yehya Chreidi.
Condo owner Shirley Schuett, who wanted to hire the lawyer, said, “It’ll cost a lot of money and I don’t have that kind of money, but I have to do something to save my home from these people.”
These are neighbors living in the condominiums on the west side.
As owners, they have an association that collects monthly fees to pay for maintenance, garbage pickup, cable TV.
And the law in Texas says if you don’t pay the homeowners’ association has a right to take your home and to foreclose on it which is exactly what some letters threatened.
But these residents aren’t ready to give in that easily. . . (click title link for more)
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See related area background on cases and contact your legislature to vote no on TUPCA. This bill was crafted by the special interest lawyers promoting this legislation:
http://www.petitiononline.com/homeback/petition.html -- Petition US Gov’t to stop unconstitutional HOA Foreclosures by special interest attorneys.
http://courtcn.co.fort-bend.tx.us/pls/public/ck_public_qry_main.cp_main_idx -- See if your HOA attorney is filing these cases in Fort Bend County.
http://pages.prodigy.net/hoadata/ -- Website on HOA foreclosure filings by attorneys. See if your HOA attorney is on this list!
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2005/04/25/story8.html -- This case of another JDC community is stalled in arbitration.
http://www.stoptexashoaforeclosures.com/ -- Homeowners advocacy website (see TUPCA legislation info). THAG website.
http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/719/activist-slaps-back-in-countersuit-against-sienna-plantation-developer -- See Sienna Plantation related SLAPP-suit.
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Legislative Contacts:
Kyle.janek@senate.state.tx.us
Charlie.Howard@house.state.tx.us
Dora.Olivo@hous.state.tx.us -- Dora is the only rep. on this list not receiving campaign contributions from developers who support the special interest TUPCA bill (she may be the best one to contact for voting No on this).
Stay informed and keep in touch!
posted by responsible_dvlpmnt at Friday, September 29, 2006
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If this bill passes homeowners will lose more property rights. This bill will give developers an additional 7+ years of control over your HOA board (which means they will control these budgets you pay into) as well as further strengthen the foreclosure powers. . .
See related piece with a quote supporting this power by developer appointed Sienna Plantation GM Sandy Denton (Marc Markel is the HOA attorney that helped create the TUPCA legislation and is on the Houston all time HOA foreclosure list at (http://pages.prodigy.net/hoadata/):
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/1297991.html
Here's an interesting and somewhat related case:
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/%5Copinions%5Cpub%5C03/03-20243-CV0.wpd.pdf.
Here's an update on the FBC campaign contributions scandal from BrazosRiver.com involving the Fla company (as this thing grows in scope):
September 29 - Well, well, well ….. come to find out, those PBS&J fellas did a little dabbling in illegal campaign contributions.
With respect to the campaign finance charge against Deloach, court records reflect that in 2004, Deloach learned that PBSJ supported the U.S. Senate campaign of Mel Martinez. Deloach wrote a personal contribution check to the Martinez campaign and asked four PBSJ employees to do the same. The four employees, and two of their spouses, made contributions totaling $11,000, for which each was unlawfully reimbursed.
The good news is that should trigger an investigation here in Fort Bend over both “missing” and “found” campaign contributions to our county commissioners. The bad news is that we don’t have an investigator.
And that’s double-dog bad news because the Miami Herald has this little ditty today.
PBS&J has lawsuits against Garcia, Licata and at least 19 of their friends and relatives to recoup portions of the embezzled funds that are still outstanding.
“Our client recognizes her criminal responsibility and is deeply remorseful,'' said Benson Weintraub, Garcia's Fort Lauderdale lawyer. ''But equally significant is her commendable status as a whistle-blower, exposing rampant political corruption and illegal campaign contributions.'' He credited Garcia for alerting authorities to the political contributions.
Rampant political corruption and illegal campaign contributions? Our commissioners sure have themselves some dandy friends, don’t they?
Ck this county corruption out from Brazosriver.com:
http://www.brazosriver.com/#October_2
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