Author: HOAGOV

Comments to Gene Mullin, Chair, California Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development regarding California bill, SB551

The June 11, 2006 issue of The Arizona Republic surfaced this important aspect of association living in its subtitle, “HOA warriors make some progress in defending owners from associations”, which leads to the question in the title to this paper. Aren’t HOAs/CIDs supposed to be healthy, vibrant and responsive communities of people? Aren’t HOA boards supposed to represent the interests of the homeowners, its member-owners in an excellent example of grassroots democracy in action, as the special interests have been promoting for over 40 years? Or are there other dynamic and structural factors at play here that account for all these years or strife, hostility, and an “us against them” attitude reflected in opposing views on association reform legislation?

Read the complete letter.

Several Homeowner Rights Advocates are being interviewed by a leading European communications/entertainment firm, with over 3 hours of telephone interviews already conducted. In addition to the interviews, the reporter has been given references to books, articles and research studies, as well as news – TV coverage of HOA abuse and legislation.

The reporter wrote:

George,

Thank you very much for this links. I saw on the TV site that a HOA can sell your home if you don’t pay your assessments !! I just cannot believe it!! And if I understand it well, they sell at the price of the unpaid assessment!! Is that right?

This appears to be a long-term project, so stay tuned.

While President Bush extols the virtues of American democracy and does a “sell-job” to the world, his brother, the Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, has just fired a state official seeking to maintain the principles of government that made America a great nation. Dr. Virgil Rizzo, Condominium Ombudsman, was hired only a year and a-half ago to protect the rights and freedoms of Americans living in Florida condominiums that are subject to privatized corporate governments. These governments operate outside those protections every American thought was guaranteed to them at birth.

Read more . . . Bush

In order for an exchange of ideas to occur, I posted a comment to the CAI Ungated Blog of May 22nd in response to Mr. Skiba’s experiment with nonmember posts.

The full text of my comments can be found at Reply.

In order for an exchange of ideas to occur, I posted a comment to the CAI Ungated Blog of May 22nd in response to Mr. Skiba’s experiment with nonmember posts.

The full text of my comments can be found at Reply.