Tag: CC&Rs citizenship

Democracy Is Not Guaranteed in HOA-Land

For the past 58 years, the HOA model of local community government has been “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” This model of government rejects democratic principles and constitutional protections, depriving members of their fundamental rights.[1]

HOAs have been permitted to operate and function as such by the support, cooperation, and promotion of state legislatures. HOAs are based on intentional misrepresentations of authoritarian private contracts to unsuspecting buyers. Even today the self-proclaimed leading educator on the  HOA model and operation will not address questions of constitutionality that have authoritative legal support.

In my earlier commentaries I wrote about the similarities between the social and political  culture on the national level and that of the HOA declaration of covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&Rs). I wrote that CC&Rs rejected democratic principles in the pursuit of enforcement in order to coerce compliance.[2]

President Biden, in his Thursday speech to the nation, reminds Americans that,[3]

“Democracy Is Not Guaranteed. “We have to defend it. Protect it. Stand up for it. Each and every one of us. . . . regardless of your ideology.”

“We just need to remember who we are. “There’s nothing more important, nothing more sacred, nothing more American”  than preserving democracy. “That’s who we truly are. And that’s who we must always be.”

There is an old truism: “there cannot be change without change.” If we are to preserve democratic institutions in HOA-Land, then the members must unite across the country and organize  to preserve democracy; there’s nothing more American. Members of HOAs are citizens of America, and that’s who we truly are and that’s who we must always be.

Learn more about unconstitutional CC&Rs and the rights and freedoms as Americans unknowingly taken from you when you entered HOA-Land. Take time to read the articles provided under Notes below.

Notes:

[1] See The intent of the HOA “bible”, the Homes Association Handbook (March 2020).

 [2] See in general, George K. Staropoli, StarMan Publishing (making references to Donald Trump).

[3] Read the Full Transcript of Biden’s Speech in Philadelphia – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

the role of homeowners is simply to provide corporate HOA revenues

On today’s This Week on ABC, the host described Ferguson’s policy, based on the DOJ’s report, as “taxing those in poverty for revenues rather than treating them as citizens.” I believe, as fellow activist Donie Vanitzian has repeatedly stated in Villa Appalling! [1], the purpose and function of homeowners in HOAs is to provide revenue for the HOA government [2] rather than treating them as citizens of the HOA.

I don’t think that the HOA Stakeholders, led by the self-anointed national lobbyist educational organization, would dare now argue that homeowners are indeed citizens of the corporate HOA business.  It would be an oxymoron.  I don’t think homeowners realized that their purchase solidified them as guarantors of the HOA’s survival in that their homes were pledged as collateral for their continued payment of assessments.  This pledge is implicitly contained in the CC&Rs, which they supposedly agreed to with full knowledge.

Notes:

  1. Villa Appalling!: Destroying the Myth of Affordable Community Living, Vanitzian and Glassman (Villa Appalling Publishing 2002).
  2. Numerous court cases have upheld a “pay until you die” doctrine found in state statutes and HOA CC&Rs. Homeowners are denied the legal protection of FDCPA, by simply filing a certified letter, of no payments until disputes are clarified.  Homeowners are not even allowed to place disputed amounts into an escrow account.  Numerous court cases have defended this special application of the law as a matter of the HOA’s survival.