A copy of the open letter and Smiling George Martin's statement were promised to my mother since Therese wasn't at the June meeting. Marguerite Price did not even have the courtesy of ringing my mother's door bell and handing the letter to her. My mother found it on the ground at her door step. Since her front gate is always locked, it had to be thrown there. Is this any way for a Board of Directors to do business with titleholders?
wall of Shame
signatures on petition circulated by George Martin
* George Martin Elyce Elyra Ardine Young
* Jeanie Vasquez Hilda Jensen Laura Keyes
* Judy Smith Janice E. Long Marjorie Chase
* Marguerite Price Angelo Longo Janice Bell
* Pat Flecky Judy Appell Toyoko Shafer
* Ann O Dubois Diana Ward Anna May Welsh
* Dollie D. Learn Frieda Prushansky
* Lione S. Ried Vernon Anas Shirley Burger
* Arthur Ortiz Edward M. Gross Kathie Atwell
* Marie Southard Luela Schuelky Barbara M. Neiier
* Jacquelyn Stephener Stephen Eliseudo Katherine Helms
* Wren Lane Marvan Hothan Liz Busch
* Dorothy Gray Marion Woods Eula Comyns
* Roger Hirth Edward Kuta Rosemary Allinson
* Gwen Long Lillian Diefenndorf Vaela Johnson
* Mary Kuenzie Helen Smith Alora Lee Bobzien
* Carolyn Smith Nancy Conz Robert Roner
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Monday, December 11, 2006
What Determines Property Values
SCCA CC&R'S have kept property values down!
What Does and Does Not Determine Property Values
By Therese Daniels
Among the 10 letters I received in eight days last month for assorted alleged violations, are statements like this: “One responsibility is seeing that all residential property is maintained at a level that will not detract from overall property values.” In the SCCA UPDATE that explains the proposed amendments, they talk about wanting to make these changes to keep up property values in the core of Sun City. They want to create architectural rules, reduce rental to 15%, and control landscaping. What is amazing to me is what qualifies the SCCA board to determine property value? What background as landscapers, architects, or realtors do they have to assume they know value? Judging by the tired, sterile, and dated way Sun City Core looks, I would have to say they don’t know the first thing about beauty and property value..
During my past thirty years as a realtor I saw markets rise and fall, interest rates range from as high as 22% and as low as 3.5%. Neighborhoods, communities, and all kinds of properties appreciated or depreciated according to the general market conditions of the times across the nation. The classic real estate definition of value is what a willing seller and a willing buyer agree upon in a reasonable amount of time. New home buyers in HOA communities with abundant CC&R’s think the enforcement of the CC&R’s is what helps keep up their property values. They are convinced by the builders that a well landscaped, neat community is more desirable than a run down community, because no one wants to live in a deteriorating neighborhood. Builders have to convince people this is a good idea. How else can they justify $150 to over $10000 a month homeowner’s dues? Almost everyone believes this is what keeps up property value. While there is wisdom in that concept, it ain’t necessarily so.
“It ain’t necessarily so.” Because, if it were “necessarily so,” the worst-gang-infested, curb-service-drug-and-prostitution-deals-with-constant-gun-fights-neighborhood in Venice, California wouldn’t be selling 955sq. ft. to 1200 sq.ft. from 1920 to 1940’s built tear down houses with weeds, rats, and trash on 3000 sq. ft. to 5000 sq. ft. lots with for $800,000 to over $1,500,000. How do you explain that? Here are properties that give the bird to everything you thought you knew about property value. They are getting prices you could never believe. What fool would pay over $1,000,000 to live in a slum? Brand new 1500 to 3000 sq. ft. houses in Menifee Valley on 7000 to 8000 sq. ft. beautifully landscaped in a conforming community are only selling from $450000 to $650000. Tish, tish! Might there be something know-it-all-people don’t know when it comes to property values? There are lots of homeowners who believe if there are CC&R’s, it will keep all the houses on their block perfectly landscaped and thus keep their property values up. They believe this is a way to “Control” their neighbors. If that were so, then what happens to their values if the market goes sideways? How is it that all the properties under HOA protection depreciated as low as 50% in the 90’s? How are CC&R’s going to protect value if suddenly the lender money dries? What they don’t realize, (they who think they do no wrong) are also being “controlled”. So what if there is an old junker on the block? The reality is: If there is a junky, funky deteriorating property on your block, it will not depreciate the value of your property. Only general market conditions can do that. If your property is the neatest and most beautifully landscaped property on the block and market conditions are hot, you will get the highest and best price for your property in spite of that old funky, junky eye sore property you would love to tear down. If market conditions are poor, you may have to keep your property on the market for a very long time—even though your property may be the most beautiful on the block. If that old funky, junky property ever goes on the market, (hot or cold market) chances are it will sell for below the market to some “fixer/upper” addict. Then it will become gorgeous. I get more requests for “fixer uppers” than for any other type of property on the market.
Please, do not misconstrue my words and take this to mean I am advocating property owners to let property deteriorate. I am not. I am merely pointing out an interesting fact about property value. I love to see well kept properties.
The point of all this, is that market conditions, location, lender money, interest rates, supply and demand, and the amenities of home and community create value. Holding rentals to 15%, harassing residents for CC&R violations does not create value. It creates de value. For most people, purchasing a home is the biggest investment of their lifetime. Investment it is. Most people who buy want to get the benefit of appreciation so they can build equity. They maintain their properties because of pride of ownership. They add upgrades, improve the landscaping, and keep up their properties. They have been doing this since before the revolution. They have been doing this long before there were HOA’s, CC&R’s, and code enforcers. As a matter of fact there is a neighborhood in Sun City between Bradley and the Freeway that was built in 1989. Though there is an HOA, they pay no dues and there are no code enforcers. Everywhere you look, one property seems to be more beautiful than the other. This is an absolutely lovely neighborhood. I keep wondering how all these families have managed to create such a lovely neighborhood without Donald Miller and his war chest of CC&R’s.
When I return to Sun City core from that or other new neighborhoods, I notice how archaic the core properties look. It looks treeless, sterile, boring and tired. When it was built in the mid sixties, it was state of the art. The Web and Presley homes were well designed and even ahead of their time. For their day, they were fabulous. They are still great homes today. During the past 40 years new materials, new energy efficient concepts, new designs, and new living styles have come forward. With the reign of the computer, almost every home has a computer or home office room. Many homes have their own gym space or room. Master bedrooms with their master baths are huge. Some even have sitting rooms with them. Who ever thought of all that in the mid-sixties? Sun City is surrounded with the latest in new homes. Sun City needs to catch up with the times. As the old resident’s transist from one life form to another, the new and younger seniors are moving in. They want the best this world can offer them. Sun City simply needs some upgrading to bring it into the 2005 standards and amenities. New home buyers in the core want to do so. In this very hot climate, Sun City needs plants, shrubs, and trees. It needs about 1000 times more trees, plus shrubs, and bushes to beautify the landscape and help create shade to cool Sun City down. The CC&R’s are 45 years old. Is it any wonder it looks antiquated with CC&R’s that restrains freedom of expression? The long term residents don’t want to do anything really beautiful to their properties because no matter what, there is some CC&R that says they can’t. There’s always some sneaky, vindictive neighbor willing to file a written complaint. There’s always Donald Miller to intimidate them backed by the support of the board who think he is doing a great job. The new buyers come here filled with enthusiasm and plan to bring these old houses up to date. Then they discover the hidden monsters, the SCCA Board. Not being able to build your “castle” because of some archaic CC&R’s is crushing to people. This is a pitiful way for people to have to live in this twenty first century during their golden years. This is oppression. The reason for all this is the ignorance of the SCCA Board about what determines property value. They simply assume the CC&R’s they have been brow beating residents over were Gospel. They are not interested in property beautification and improvements, they are only interested in forcing people to conform to out dated, ridicules standards that no longer apply to today’s modern life style. Now they want to set themselves up as architectural censors of esthetics. The board of SCCA has a whole lot of information to gather before it knows or can determine property value or esthetics. Property value is not determined by CC&R’s. Just drop the age limit—which is governed by CC&R’s—to 45 and watch property values soar!
Monday, September 18, 2006
Therese Daniels' Personal Statement
After 20 years S.C. has a new Board
The old guard is defeated. Hurrah! The hope of over throwing tyranny is alive!
And the beginning to the end of tyranny has begun--as of 9/18/06 Donald Miller has been terminated. (he was only on SCCA pay for about 8 or 9 years)
Therese Daniels
It's been two years since I began my protest against SCCA Our work is just beginning.
Until I moved to Sun city, I had lived almost my entire life in non-deed restricted communities in Los Angeles area. During those years I practiced real estate, studied art, participated in community activities and debated philosophy. As a realtor I learned the importance of the right to govern our own property. No neighbor had the right to impose his values upon another neighbor's property. I learned what truly determines property value and what does not. I developed an appreciation and the sacredness of our Constitutional Rights. As time passed my respect for the genius of the men who wrote The Constitution of the United States increased. Personal freedom, all human beings are equal regardless of race color or creed, the right to earn a living, ethical and humane action in dealing with all were among the high standards I believed were practiced by the American majority.
I do and have always believed in the ultimate goodness of human beings. I believed every person I met is doing the best he/she can with what he's got at any given time. Free speech was welcomed. In the heat of conflict, sheds the light of truth. I believed society was interested in the highest and best good for itself and always prefer honesty and dignity over corruption and tyranny. Integrity and human compassion had become the rule to live by. In my ignorant belief society was becoming sensitive toward each other. Society had finally reached an age of enlightenment--so I thought. That sums up my idealism when I arrived in Sun City to help my mother in 1998.
I soon learned living in Sun City was like returning to the dark ages. Bigotry, ignorance, malevolence, fear and a contempt for the Constitution have been the rule in the Sun City Core for the past twenty five years. This attitude seems to spread in the rest of Riverside County as I have found it on many levels and is still prevailing today. What was even more appalling to me, is the persistence by S.C. residents to cling to their ignorance as if it were gold. The corruption, capriciousness, and ignorance of SCCA is flagrant. The absolute proof of this statement was the disgusting ballot SCCA mailed July 2005 to every member asking them for carte blanche right to sell our properties any way they saw fit, attempting to restrict rentals, approve of trespassing upon our properties, and asking the members to vote away any Constitutional Rights they had left living in a deed restricted community.
The SCCA Board that wrote, spent money on producing and mailing this document were so jaded they didn't even realize how bad it made them look or care how harmful it was to the members. It was as if America had gone back to the Dark Ages. It was as if none of them knew why there was an American Revolution. I no longer had the luxury of ignoring management. I knew I would have to SHOUT! I know I have to continue shouting. It was one of the most painful and agonizing decisions I had to make in a very long time. SCCA has a lot of friends who have supported them for over twenty years. I knew if I dared speak, I would be hated, ridiculed, maligned, punished and lose business as a realtor.
Never the less, I did make a difference. S.C. will be a slightly better place to live this year. Last July 2005, the same seven people who had been on SCCA Board for over twenty years were still on SCCA Board. The same SCCA salaried manager had been at her job for over eight years. SCCA had issued a "Special Election Ballot" and they were attempting to complete a deal with the Hopkins Development Company to sell Corbett Park below market value. This July 2006, there is now a brand new SCCA Board. That horrible ballot was withdrawn and to date has not come back to haunt us. Corbett Park has not been sold for under market value or any other value at this time. Christine McReynolds is no longer yeilding her heavy handed management. Though I did not accomplish this single handedly, I know I was the first to become public with my one woman protest through Mediacom, the newsletter Shout and this web site! My single effort gave upliftment, help, and courage to others who also carried the ball and are now serving as the new Board. In their own way, many others also worked for social betterment. I am glad for all of them. I am glad I shouted!
Be Noble My Friend,
For the nobleness that lies in others,
Often dormant
Will rise to meet thine own!
What is the cause for this dark ages attitude asked by me thousands of times since I have encountered it? What dark side of human nature have I unwittingly unveiled? Sun City residents are not "bad" people. Listening to them support the stupidity of SCCA, I could see they sincerely believe the people on the Board were good and capable people. I could see their conflict of being loyal or acknowledging negative facts about SCCA was painful. As I listened, I began to perceive some of the causes of this problem are ignorance based upon misinformation, insufficeint communication, and a belief system based upon lies and half truths. How did they become this way?
It began with developers building deed restricted communities. In order to sell their product they had to convince people to buy into their communities was a good idea because it would keep up property values by enforcing CC&R's and people need management and control. This was the beginning of erroneous concepts that years later people accepted unchallenged as Gospel. What good, sane person doesn't want to keep up the value of his investment? The idea was then perpetuated by the SCCA Board to justify its existence. For the past forty plus years the only communication SCCA members have had about SCCA was the Core Courier--a biased, convoluted, and misinformed publication that the unsuspecting members accepted as God's word.
SCCA has had a captive audience for almost forty years misrepresenting the facts and convincing members that the majority of members use and care about the "campus and its facilities", 55+ status in Sun City Core is what members want, the CC&R's keep up property values, and you can't reside here successfully with out their management. Until I started publishing Shout and this web site, the members never have had the benefit of getting of an opposing point of view. No one ever attempted to tell them fact from fiction. Is it any surprise that forty years later the members are ignorant. They have been deliberately misinformed and kept ignorant of the real facts. The members (not all) believe SCCA Board and management could do no wrong. At least 75% of the Core's residents have lived here since the mid 60's and early 70's. It is carved in their granite skulls the Core needs management, enforcement of CC&R's is what keep up property values, and the dues they pay are a bargain. A large percentage of members are simply apathetic. What is even worse, a large number of members are afraid of retaliation if they speak out. So I thought if I spoke out for them, it would give others the courage to speak out, too.
It did. That is why the old Board was defeated in 2006. Sadly, it also made many good but pitifully misinformed people turn against me. They simply refuse to hear the message and want to kill the messenger! They would prefer to believe the very corrupt SCCA who has its hands in their pockets and legal control over their lives.
Look at the facts
I do not have my hands in member's pockets, do not have nor want the power to control anyone, build a bullet proof wall in the office, encourage members to spy and tell on one another with the promise of anonymity, try to sell common property below market, didn't write one amendment, CC&R or deal to take away more rights from members. All of that and more was done by the 20+year old SCCA Board. All I have done is expose the wrong doings of SCCA for a better life in this community. Yet, they hate me and love their oppressors! People in their ignorance never cease to amaze me! It seems to me many members don't want to be bothered with legality or morality. They simply want to maintain the "status quo" of their little clicks, "good ole boy's club", and right or wrong buddy system The wall of ignorance here is greater than the wall of China! We pay a price for the ignorance of SCCA devotees.
Because of their ignorance, the quality of your and my life is diminished.
Ignorance is the only enemy the universe has.
Ignorance must be defeated right here and now! There is absolutely no need for a civic association to run the Core. The highest and best choice for S.C. Core residents is to dissolve the SCCA and operate under County Government. I hope there are enough enlighted members who will join me in this endeavor.
LOADS OF BAD CALIFORNIA HOUSING LEGISLATION!!
Be Informed!!! Hold your legislator accountable!
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Lawyer Liabilities of HOAs • Appellate Judges Reverse Case
NEWS TODAY: September 6, 2006
The news summaries provide links to the full text of the story. You can add your comments and ideas to each of these stories by clicking on the story link, and clicking "Comments" at the end of each story.
THE 'L' WORD [An Editorial]
Exorbitant lawyer fees and HOA "L"aden "L"iabilities can quickly erode your home equity, and any sense of "home sweet home"
Sep 5, 2006 by Ann Roth
The HOA "L"awyers can garner control of insecure homeowner boards, making them feel important, and leading them to believe that they must act in a certain way or else, they will be "L"iable. This faux fear they put upon the individual board members helps to "L"ine the lawyer's pockets. Research an HOA lawyer/law firm's history of "L"itigation and "L"egislation and carefully analyze whether it is homeowner friendly or corporation friendly. Find out if your HOA lawyer/law firm is affiliated with any HOA related vendor or "L"obby groups like the CAI, CACM, or ECHO. IF at all feasible - selling and getting out of a neighbor controlled corporate fiefdom "counseled" by litigation lovin' lawyers, is probably the safer investment decision in terms of risk assessment. Exorbitant lawyer fees coupled with HOA "L"aden "L"iabilities can quickly erode your equity, and any sense of "home sweet home" you thought you were buying into.
The news summaries provide links to the full text of the story. You can add your comments and ideas to each of these stories by clicking on the story link, and clicking "Comments" at the end of each story.
THE 'L' WORD [An Editorial]
Exorbitant lawyer fees and HOA "L"aden "L"iabilities can quickly erode your home equity, and any sense of "home sweet home"
Sep 5, 2006 by Ann Roth
The HOA "L"awyers can garner control of insecure homeowner boards, making them feel important, and leading them to believe that they must act in a certain way or else, they will be "L"iable. This faux fear they put upon the individual board members helps to "L"ine the lawyer's pockets. Research an HOA lawyer/law firm's history of "L"itigation and "L"egislation and carefully analyze whether it is homeowner friendly or corporation friendly. Find out if your HOA lawyer/law firm is affiliated with any HOA related vendor or "L"obby groups like the CAI, CACM, or ECHO. IF at all feasible - selling and getting out of a neighbor controlled corporate fiefdom "counseled" by litigation lovin' lawyers, is probably the safer investment decision in terms of risk assessment. Exorbitant lawyer fees coupled with HOA "L"aden "L"iabilities can quickly erode your equity, and any sense of "home sweet home" you thought you were buying into.
Friday, September 1, 2006
10 Reasons to dissolve SCCA
We are always looking for help. Volunteers are needed to help distribute the news letter SHOUT and to man the tables when the recall petition is set up at the shopping center.
How to Help
Send any donation you can. Volunteer in any way you can. Write your own story of frustration or abuse and permit us to publish it on the web site. Tell your neighbors. Vote no on the amendments. Sign the recall petition.
10 Good reasons to totally dissolve SCCA
1. Malfeasance - failing its fiduciary duty to the members, to comply with its own bylaws, failing to provide accurate and detailed financial reports, . .
2. Incompetence - The special election ballot was so poorly written they had to cancel it, they bungled the sale of SCCA property to EMWD and Corbett Park, . . .
3. Dishonesty - They lied about lenders balking at loans due to above 15% rentals, that disclosure of salaries is priveleged information, and other issues. Can you believe anything they say?
4. Ignorance - They are not qualified to determine property values, set architectrual standards, nor create new CC&R's. . .
5. Irresponsibility - Spending membership monies on inefficiently written ballots and canceling it, frivolous law suits, sending letters over trivia...
6. Mean Spiritidness -persisting in harassing members in the face of facts, logic, and reason, refusing to concede, abusing and intimidating....
7. Abuse of Power - using the silent threat of non judicial foreclosure upon residents growing California poppies and other piddling items. . .
8. Obsolescence - Due to 45 year old CC&R's Sun City is designated a blighted area-....
9. Arrogance - refusing to be accountable for its actions to the members, treating members as children, stupid, or criminals....
10. No Value in return for dues we pay -- what have we got to show for our yearly dues?
How to Help
Send any donation you can. Volunteer in any way you can. Write your own story of frustration or abuse and permit us to publish it on the web site. Tell your neighbors. Vote no on the amendments. Sign the recall petition.
10 Good reasons to totally dissolve SCCA
1. Malfeasance - failing its fiduciary duty to the members, to comply with its own bylaws, failing to provide accurate and detailed financial reports, . .
2. Incompetence - The special election ballot was so poorly written they had to cancel it, they bungled the sale of SCCA property to EMWD and Corbett Park, . . .
3. Dishonesty - They lied about lenders balking at loans due to above 15% rentals, that disclosure of salaries is priveleged information, and other issues. Can you believe anything they say?
4. Ignorance - They are not qualified to determine property values, set architectrual standards, nor create new CC&R's. . .
5. Irresponsibility - Spending membership monies on inefficiently written ballots and canceling it, frivolous law suits, sending letters over trivia...
6. Mean Spiritidness -persisting in harassing members in the face of facts, logic, and reason, refusing to concede, abusing and intimidating....
7. Abuse of Power - using the silent threat of non judicial foreclosure upon residents growing California poppies and other piddling items. . .
8. Obsolescence - Due to 45 year old CC&R's Sun City is designated a blighted area-....
9. Arrogance - refusing to be accountable for its actions to the members, treating members as children, stupid, or criminals....
10. No Value in return for dues we pay -- what have we got to show for our yearly dues?
Friday, August 18, 2006
The most sacred status in life is the quiet enjoyment of your own home.
Action of second Continental Congress
July 4, 1776
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. . ."
Excerpts from the Preamble of the Bill of Rights
"Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppresion, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between. . .
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interferences with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interferences. . ."
Yellow house
The Greatest Legal Can of Worms Today--HOA's and their relatives
There are over 50,000,000 Americans living in HOA communites across the nation. Except for a handful of HOA communities, there is a constant war between members and their board of directors. HOA's, and their relatives ("CID's", "MPC's", etc.) are being defined and redfined every day. Every state is experiencing one kind or another amendment, bill, law, or definition regarding the rules of HOA's to govern its members. Most HOA's are simply too restrictive and invasive. They serve no real purpose other than to be self perpetuating at the expense of the American home owner. HOA's under corporate law have created a monumental legal can of worms in this country today. Nothing in mans' history has prepared the world for the legal conflicts that center around the laws of HOA's. AHRC is a web site that will keep you updated with the latest bills, legislature, and conlicts on the subject. It is a huge site with overwhelming abundance of information. Viewing this site is a must if you want to be informed about them.
There is nothing in America more sacred than the right of home owneship and the bundle of rights that are supposed to go with it. HOA's with their war chest of petty CC&R's and their unspoken but very real power of non judicial foreclosure have violated the most sacred of all American rights--the right to quiet enjoyment of one's own home. A man's home is his castle. Home is the sanctuary of the family. Home is where you can hang your head. There's no place like home. Home is the nest for a growing family. Home is family security and investment. Home is protection. Home is where the heart is. Home, sweet home! No HOA with its arsenal of CC&R's under the corporate legal umbrella should ever come between a family and its home in America or any where else. Home ownership is the foundation of this country. Home ownership is truly American.
AB 770 - the Gene Mullin California Law Revison Commission Fraud
NEWS TODAY: August 19, 2006
Tell your legislator and your governor to stop AB 770 by California Assemblymember Gene Mullin. For more see: No On AB 770 - A Conspiracy To Defraud California Homeowners
AB 770: A Conspiracy To Defraud California Homeowners [An Editorial]
Organizers of this conspiracy should be investigated
Aug 18, 2006 by AHRC News Services
Instead of genuine enforcement, lawmaker Gene Mullin, the Chair of the California Assembly Housing Committee, like many other chairs before him, is pushing another phony bill through the legislature that taxes homeowners, creates lucrative work for the lawyers and provides no benefits or law enforcement for the owner. Homeowners should demand that their lawmakers stop this bill. In addition, they should demand an investigation of all the lawyers, lawmakers, consultants and lobbyists who participated in the AB 770 conspiracy and used government offices and funds in order to defraud the public.
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California's AB770 & the CID Ombudsman [An Editorial]
Without enforcement, just more Smoke & Mirrors
Aug 19, 2006 by George K. Staropoli
What is the purpose of the CID Ombudsman proposed in AB770? From the wording of the bill, it would be another clerical, paper-shuffling bureaucratic function. Isn't CLRC supposed to be doing research on shortcomings of existing laws? After 40 years of homeowner oppression and abuse, AB770 wants the Ombudsman to now determine just what are the problems? In short, it would merely be a complaint desk to take the heat away from the legislators who continually refuse to sponsor CID reform bills of substance.
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California Law Revision Commission exceeding its Legislative Mandate? [An Article]
There are restrictions on CLRC legislative advocacy of bills
Aug 19, 2006 by George K. Staropoli
From the enabling statute, it appears that CLRC is indeed exceding its authority. It is limited to filing annual reports and making recommendations, and may only appear before a committee if requested by the committee. § 8293 requires CLRC to report on the topics and progress of its studies, the topics which have been given to it by the Legislature for study. CIDs is an approved topic.
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HELP! CALLING ALL CALIFORNIA DEED-RESTRICTED PROPERTY OWNERS [Press Release]
Tell the legislature: We're Tired of the Drain on our Bank Accounts!
Aug 18, 2006 by Donie Vanitzian
Tell the legislature to stop AB 770 by Assemblymember Gene Mullin. We're Tired of the Drain on our Bank Accounts! Mullin and his aider and abettor legislator buddies are trying to ram this damn ombudsman down our throat. They make it sound innocuous, simple, and necessary, but the office and the bill itself is anything but simple, and it certainly is NOT free. PLEASE read my article NO! NO! NO! on this bill. KILL THIS BILL BEFORE IT KILLS US! Keep your money, don't give it to the state and don't give it to the homeowner association. It's time we stood up for our bank accounts and stopped the drain. It is critical for owners to write and tell the legislature WE DON'T WANT THIS BOGUS BILL AND WE DON'T WANT AN OMBUDSMAN.
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NO! NO! NO! ON AB770 [An Article]
AB770 is SB551 in drag masquerading as CAI's full employment act
Jul 3, 2006 by Donie Vanitzian
DEED-RESTRICTED TITLES ARE INFERIOR TO ALL OTHER TITLES The message is clear: Do not buy a condominium, townhouse, co-operative, mobile home, or single-family dwelling if it is located in a common interest development, has a homeowners association, and a board of directors. Don't do it. If you have a deed-restriction on your title, sell and get the hell out while you are able. That is, before this legislature passes more bad bills and you are stuck paying for their mistakes and it becomes impossible to extricate yourself from this type of property ownership. If the legislators are serious about giving owners a bill of rights, they need not look far. By supporting bad bills, owners are asking for "Folsom Prison CC&Rs." As with much of the bad bills we are witnessing making it to the California Assembly and Senate floors, AB770 is inconsistent with good government.
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THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICA [An Editorial]
America's Worst Enemies
Mar 10, 2006 by Robert Bagely
The U.S. National Debt Clock by Ed Hall publisher of www.brillig.com of shows, moment by moment, how much debt is owed by the United States.
America is under attack from many sources, but the most dangerous and insidious is one that lies within, because the people have entrusted their well-being to that source - the political, business and judicial power structure that governs this country. There are a few exceptions, of course, but by and large, this power structure has done more damage to this country than any other enemy - and they continue to do damage at an unprecedented rate. It is these people who have saddled the people of America with the most staggering debt in history - almost $8.2 trillion dollars - and the president wants to raise the debt ceiling even further. The current president has heaped more debt on us than all other presidents combined. He will eventually ride off into the sunset to his ranch, but we will have to pay the bill. Another example is a piece of legislation introduced into the California legislature recently, which shows the confluence of power structure members - legislators and lobbyists - that will extract even more money from homeowners and put it in the pockets of lobbyists. The twin "California Homeowner Association Ombudsman" AB 770 by Gene Mullin (D) and SB 551 by Alan Lowenthal (D) is another example of how homeowners are used as so much fodder for the self-agrandizment of the power structure members. Legislators, in effect, have become the employees of the lobbyists. "Campaign contributions" are in reality wages paid to legislators.
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Forcing California Homeowners To Continue Bankrolling A Fraud And State-Sponsored Industry Infomercials [A Letter]
An Opposition to AB 770 - Assemblymember George Mullin's bill to create a Homeowner Association Ombudsman
Dec 9, 2005 by Donie Vanitzian
While you are busy creating yet another government department, the prior governor and ex-lawmaker Gray Davis, and prior judge, industry lobbyist and ex-lawmaker Larry Stirling, who together started the reviled Davis-Stirling Act are both silent on the mess they created for homeowners. Gee, what a surprise! Homeowners meanwhile continue to bankroll the fraud, and State-Sponsored industry Infomercials.
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CALIFORNIA HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION BILL AB 770 (Mullin) - A SELLOUT TO LOBBYISTS [Legislation]
Homeowners Oppose the Bill
Apr 8, 2005 by AHRC News Services
The following is a letter of opposition to AB 770 (Mullin) that AHRC sent to Assemblyman Gene Mullin and the California lawmakers: Homeowners cannot support an anemic bill. They have endured too much and been patient too long to settle for what they regard as largely a meaningless gesture. Homeowners believe that the industry should be confronted once and for all. Genuine politics involves the use of power to settle problems. Flawed politics allows special interest groups to dominate the day. Sooner or later, the problems of homeowner associations need to be addressed. Homeowners ask "Why not now?"
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Two lawmakers push twin bills to tax homeowners in California homeowner associations [An Article]
SB 551 and AB 770 will tax homeowners to provide government education but not enforcement of homeowner association laws
Apr 8, 2005 by AHRC News Services
On February 29, 2005 Senator Lowenthal and Assemblyman Mullin introduced two placeholder (spot) bills SB 551 (Lowenthal ) and AB 770 (Mullin ) On March 29, and 31st, 2005 both bills were amended at the request of the California Law Revision Commission into two twin bills that will create a new tax on the 7,000,000 Californians who live in homeowner associations.
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July 4, 1776
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. . ."
Excerpts from the Preamble of the Bill of Rights
"Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppresion, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between. . .
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interferences with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interferences. . ."
Yellow house
The Greatest Legal Can of Worms Today--HOA's and their relatives
There are over 50,000,000 Americans living in HOA communites across the nation. Except for a handful of HOA communities, there is a constant war between members and their board of directors. HOA's, and their relatives ("CID's", "MPC's", etc.) are being defined and redfined every day. Every state is experiencing one kind or another amendment, bill, law, or definition regarding the rules of HOA's to govern its members. Most HOA's are simply too restrictive and invasive. They serve no real purpose other than to be self perpetuating at the expense of the American home owner. HOA's under corporate law have created a monumental legal can of worms in this country today. Nothing in mans' history has prepared the world for the legal conflicts that center around the laws of HOA's. AHRC is a web site that will keep you updated with the latest bills, legislature, and conlicts on the subject. It is a huge site with overwhelming abundance of information. Viewing this site is a must if you want to be informed about them.
There is nothing in America more sacred than the right of home owneship and the bundle of rights that are supposed to go with it. HOA's with their war chest of petty CC&R's and their unspoken but very real power of non judicial foreclosure have violated the most sacred of all American rights--the right to quiet enjoyment of one's own home. A man's home is his castle. Home is the sanctuary of the family. Home is where you can hang your head. There's no place like home. Home is the nest for a growing family. Home is family security and investment. Home is protection. Home is where the heart is. Home, sweet home! No HOA with its arsenal of CC&R's under the corporate legal umbrella should ever come between a family and its home in America or any where else. Home ownership is the foundation of this country. Home ownership is truly American.
AB 770 - the Gene Mullin California Law Revison Commission Fraud
NEWS TODAY: August 19, 2006
Tell your legislator and your governor to stop AB 770 by California Assemblymember Gene Mullin. For more see: No On AB 770 - A Conspiracy To Defraud California Homeowners
AB 770: A Conspiracy To Defraud California Homeowners [An Editorial]
Organizers of this conspiracy should be investigated
Aug 18, 2006 by AHRC News Services
Instead of genuine enforcement, lawmaker Gene Mullin, the Chair of the California Assembly Housing Committee, like many other chairs before him, is pushing another phony bill through the legislature that taxes homeowners, creates lucrative work for the lawyers and provides no benefits or law enforcement for the owner. Homeowners should demand that their lawmakers stop this bill. In addition, they should demand an investigation of all the lawyers, lawmakers, consultants and lobbyists who participated in the AB 770 conspiracy and used government offices and funds in order to defraud the public.
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California's AB770 & the CID Ombudsman [An Editorial]
Without enforcement, just more Smoke & Mirrors
Aug 19, 2006 by George K. Staropoli
What is the purpose of the CID Ombudsman proposed in AB770? From the wording of the bill, it would be another clerical, paper-shuffling bureaucratic function. Isn't CLRC supposed to be doing research on shortcomings of existing laws? After 40 years of homeowner oppression and abuse, AB770 wants the Ombudsman to now determine just what are the problems? In short, it would merely be a complaint desk to take the heat away from the legislators who continually refuse to sponsor CID reform bills of substance.
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California Law Revision Commission exceeding its Legislative Mandate? [An Article]
There are restrictions on CLRC legislative advocacy of bills
Aug 19, 2006 by George K. Staropoli
From the enabling statute, it appears that CLRC is indeed exceding its authority. It is limited to filing annual reports and making recommendations, and may only appear before a committee if requested by the committee. § 8293 requires CLRC to report on the topics and progress of its studies, the topics which have been given to it by the Legislature for study. CIDs is an approved topic.
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HELP! CALLING ALL CALIFORNIA DEED-RESTRICTED PROPERTY OWNERS [Press Release]
Tell the legislature: We're Tired of the Drain on our Bank Accounts!
Aug 18, 2006 by Donie Vanitzian
Tell the legislature to stop AB 770 by Assemblymember Gene Mullin. We're Tired of the Drain on our Bank Accounts! Mullin and his aider and abettor legislator buddies are trying to ram this damn ombudsman down our throat. They make it sound innocuous, simple, and necessary, but the office and the bill itself is anything but simple, and it certainly is NOT free. PLEASE read my article NO! NO! NO! on this bill. KILL THIS BILL BEFORE IT KILLS US! Keep your money, don't give it to the state and don't give it to the homeowner association. It's time we stood up for our bank accounts and stopped the drain. It is critical for owners to write and tell the legislature WE DON'T WANT THIS BOGUS BILL AND WE DON'T WANT AN OMBUDSMAN.
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NO! NO! NO! ON AB770 [An Article]
AB770 is SB551 in drag masquerading as CAI's full employment act
Jul 3, 2006 by Donie Vanitzian
DEED-RESTRICTED TITLES ARE INFERIOR TO ALL OTHER TITLES The message is clear: Do not buy a condominium, townhouse, co-operative, mobile home, or single-family dwelling if it is located in a common interest development, has a homeowners association, and a board of directors. Don't do it. If you have a deed-restriction on your title, sell and get the hell out while you are able. That is, before this legislature passes more bad bills and you are stuck paying for their mistakes and it becomes impossible to extricate yourself from this type of property ownership. If the legislators are serious about giving owners a bill of rights, they need not look far. By supporting bad bills, owners are asking for "Folsom Prison CC&Rs." As with much of the bad bills we are witnessing making it to the California Assembly and Senate floors, AB770 is inconsistent with good government.
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THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICA [An Editorial]
America's Worst Enemies
Mar 10, 2006 by Robert Bagely
The U.S. National Debt Clock by Ed Hall publisher of www.brillig.com of shows, moment by moment, how much debt is owed by the United States.
America is under attack from many sources, but the most dangerous and insidious is one that lies within, because the people have entrusted their well-being to that source - the political, business and judicial power structure that governs this country. There are a few exceptions, of course, but by and large, this power structure has done more damage to this country than any other enemy - and they continue to do damage at an unprecedented rate. It is these people who have saddled the people of America with the most staggering debt in history - almost $8.2 trillion dollars - and the president wants to raise the debt ceiling even further. The current president has heaped more debt on us than all other presidents combined. He will eventually ride off into the sunset to his ranch, but we will have to pay the bill. Another example is a piece of legislation introduced into the California legislature recently, which shows the confluence of power structure members - legislators and lobbyists - that will extract even more money from homeowners and put it in the pockets of lobbyists. The twin "California Homeowner Association Ombudsman" AB 770 by Gene Mullin (D) and SB 551 by Alan Lowenthal (D) is another example of how homeowners are used as so much fodder for the self-agrandizment of the power structure members. Legislators, in effect, have become the employees of the lobbyists. "Campaign contributions" are in reality wages paid to legislators.
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Forcing California Homeowners To Continue Bankrolling A Fraud And State-Sponsored Industry Infomercials [A Letter]
An Opposition to AB 770 - Assemblymember George Mullin's bill to create a Homeowner Association Ombudsman
Dec 9, 2005 by Donie Vanitzian
While you are busy creating yet another government department, the prior governor and ex-lawmaker Gray Davis, and prior judge, industry lobbyist and ex-lawmaker Larry Stirling, who together started the reviled Davis-Stirling Act are both silent on the mess they created for homeowners. Gee, what a surprise! Homeowners meanwhile continue to bankroll the fraud, and State-Sponsored industry Infomercials.
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CALIFORNIA HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION BILL AB 770 (Mullin) - A SELLOUT TO LOBBYISTS [Legislation]
Homeowners Oppose the Bill
Apr 8, 2005 by AHRC News Services
The following is a letter of opposition to AB 770 (Mullin) that AHRC sent to Assemblyman Gene Mullin and the California lawmakers: Homeowners cannot support an anemic bill. They have endured too much and been patient too long to settle for what they regard as largely a meaningless gesture. Homeowners believe that the industry should be confronted once and for all. Genuine politics involves the use of power to settle problems. Flawed politics allows special interest groups to dominate the day. Sooner or later, the problems of homeowner associations need to be addressed. Homeowners ask "Why not now?"
Read More... | View comments (0) | Post comments
Two lawmakers push twin bills to tax homeowners in California homeowner associations [An Article]
SB 551 and AB 770 will tax homeowners to provide government education but not enforcement of homeowner association laws
Apr 8, 2005 by AHRC News Services
On February 29, 2005 Senator Lowenthal and Assemblyman Mullin introduced two placeholder (spot) bills SB 551 (Lowenthal ) and AB 770 (Mullin ) On March 29, and 31st, 2005 both bills were amended at the request of the California Law Revision Commission into two twin bills that will create a new tax on the 7,000,000 Californians who live in homeowner associations.
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Latest News in Menifee Valley
From now on this section is going to deal with events that cover other issues in Sun City/Menifee Valley
Sadly, there is a spirit of lawlessness in Riverside County from the average residents, to business people, to residents in HOA's, to Chambers to the judicial systems & judges, and so on, & on & on. Because of this many, many people get used, abused and harmed in countless ways. Often it is met with apathy by those who didn't get hurt at that time and fail to recognize how vulnerable they are if they persist supporting unethical people. There seems to be neither concern nor protection from the blatant "giving the bird " to our integrity and laws by the large amount of unscrupulous characters who want power over you and me. Therefore, I feel if they want to behave recklessly than they should be exposed. Exposed not to obtain revenge but exposed so other unsuspecting innocent people don't get hurt. After all, what walks like a duck, talks like a duck, looks like a duck may be a rattle snake. How will they be recognized if not exposed.
Cityhood, Chambers, HOA's, SCCA
Good & Bad Guys
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SCCA Thugs continue their harassment in 2006
The 2006 harassment by SCCA has already begun. It has started with their over zealous efforts in demanding residents show proof of age to comply with "Federal Guide lines" to maintain their dubious 55+ status. They not only want every resident's proof of age but they want every resident's visitor's proof of age. If you advise Christine McReynold's that you have a visitor and not a resident, she will indirectly call you a liar and "pass it on to Donald Miller to have him confirm it." Then they will send one of the SCCA thugs to harass a resident threatening to call the police if the person has the temerity to tell them to get lost. Do you really believe Federal Guide Lines expect any HOA to use that much diligence in confirming the age of residents and their visitors? After all, they are "Guide Lines" and not order or directives. Isn't it comforting that they treat us as if we are all liars and criminals. We who are no more than senior citizens trying to live our golden years in peace and happiness. (See letter from me to Paul Morrisey 2/21/06 in the abuse stories continued section.)
Christine McReynolds,has been terminated. "
The new board did their job with Christine. The next on the list to be terminated is Donald Miller, the law firm and the rest of the rude & ignorant group. At last, Donald Miller has been fired. That leaves on Epsten, Grinnel, and Howell to scratch off the tyrant's list.
The Paul Morrisey group have assumed their new positions--but Donald Miller is still harassing us while getting paid with funds stolen from the residents.
Does this Group (The Old Guard) Condone Senior Abuse?
There is an ignorant group who is trying to recall the new SCCA Board because they fired Christine McReynolds. They are the same people in the same 20-year-old clique who have been running Sun City. They are old, tired, and very self righteous. Their psychology is a curiosity to me. The facts, track record, and first witness accounts of SCCA's past abusive, horrendous management under Christine McReynolds have been more than substantiated by this membership. Does this group believe these abuses against seniors did not occur or does this group approve of the abusive practices? Or does it just don't care ? Either way members should quake in their socks with the knowledge there are so many mean spirited people in SCCA membership who would want a return of the evil we just terminated.
The other issue I have with this group is they are dishonest. They put out fliers claiming to be an SCCA committee leading unsuspecting members to think they are part of SCCA management. They are not. Except for a couple of names that have come forward, they work mostly in the closet, sneaky and underhanded. Are these the kind of people we would want to have any authority or control over us? They have been jaded for so long they have lost their ability to recognize right from wrong.
By the way this recall group is made up of the same 10% of SCCA membership who have been the "good ole boys' club" who have used the facilities, played cards, and generally "hung" together keeping the same obnoxious seven people on the board for the past 20 years. Is it any surprise they are filled with sour grapes and want a return of their "power". These are the same turkeys who have been enjoying SCCA facilities to the exclusion of the 90% have been paying dues to support. They don't want to lose their cash cow and have to pay for SCCA facilities themselves.
Sun City is designated a blighted area by the County!
New board or not, the only hope for Sun City to rid itself of this tyranny is to totally dissolve SCCA.
Just because there is now a"new board' doesn't absolve the malfeasance and crimes committed by the old board against the SCCA members. They still must be held accountable if Sun City is to heal and grow healthy.
Bullet Proof Lucite Wall
The bullet proof wall is the silent testimony to very bad management. It symbolizes to Sun City Core Residents what The Berlin Wall symbolized to the world. What is wrong with this picture?
What about that $26,000-light-the-lawn-bowling-green-fiasco?
"Stupid is what stupid does." Forrest Gump
Ex-Governor Gray Davis, your work is not yet done
Please correct the errors of the Davis Stirling Act
July 11, 2006
By Melvyn Klein
Los Angeles, California -
A LETTER TO EX-GOVERNOR GRAY DAVIS OF CALIFORNIA
Dear ex-Governor Gray Davis:
What prompts this letter is the article written about you in the Los Angeles Times last week. You are quoted as saying that you are proud of your public service, and you believe that overall, your contribution was a positive one. I do not doubt that you feel that way, and moreover, I believe your underlying motivation was to do good.
But there is still more you can do, that rightly falls to you to do. It has to do with legislation to which your name is attached: the Davis Stirling act.
The conditions in Community Interest Developments, Condos and Coops, are incredibly scandalous. These are literally criminal enterprises in some cases, and yet there is little reasonable recourse open to homeowners. Lawsuits are forbiddingly expensive, particularly when the opposing party, the Board and management, is spending your money to defend themselves.
Associated with these conditions is an environment of corruption extending to accountants, auditors, attorneys, contractors, and even government and law enforcement. I think that there is in this a very real danger to society at large.
There are two fundamental problems that need to be addressed:
First, there is no mechanism to enforce laws governing Common Interest Developmentss.
Second, because elections are controlled by the Boards and Management of the Associations, it can be nearly impossible to remove an abusive Board, and, in fact, the worse they are, the more contemptuous of the law they happen to be, the harder it can be to remove them.
Laws have to be changed to correct this, and good ideas to accomplish this are not hard to devise.
Some complaints could be handled in Small Claims Court, with enforcement authority. There could be legislation that would place the conduct of Board elections in the hands of independent third parties when conditions warranted.
Yet any and all efforts to achieve this are met with lobbying by attorneys and homeowner association managers, who benefit from the chaotic situation, and the legal work it brings about.
Because Davis Stirling is an element of your legacy, it would be very fitting and proper if you became involved once again to make things right. Your work is not yet done.
Sincerely,
Melvyn Klein
Santa Monica, California 90402
Sadly, there is a spirit of lawlessness in Riverside County from the average residents, to business people, to residents in HOA's, to Chambers to the judicial systems & judges, and so on, & on & on. Because of this many, many people get used, abused and harmed in countless ways. Often it is met with apathy by those who didn't get hurt at that time and fail to recognize how vulnerable they are if they persist supporting unethical people. There seems to be neither concern nor protection from the blatant "giving the bird " to our integrity and laws by the large amount of unscrupulous characters who want power over you and me. Therefore, I feel if they want to behave recklessly than they should be exposed. Exposed not to obtain revenge but exposed so other unsuspecting innocent people don't get hurt. After all, what walks like a duck, talks like a duck, looks like a duck may be a rattle snake. How will they be recognized if not exposed.
Cityhood, Chambers, HOA's, SCCA
Good & Bad Guys
publication1.jpg
SCCA Thugs continue their harassment in 2006
The 2006 harassment by SCCA has already begun. It has started with their over zealous efforts in demanding residents show proof of age to comply with "Federal Guide lines" to maintain their dubious 55+ status. They not only want every resident's proof of age but they want every resident's visitor's proof of age. If you advise Christine McReynold's that you have a visitor and not a resident, she will indirectly call you a liar and "pass it on to Donald Miller to have him confirm it." Then they will send one of the SCCA thugs to harass a resident threatening to call the police if the person has the temerity to tell them to get lost. Do you really believe Federal Guide Lines expect any HOA to use that much diligence in confirming the age of residents and their visitors? After all, they are "Guide Lines" and not order or directives. Isn't it comforting that they treat us as if we are all liars and criminals. We who are no more than senior citizens trying to live our golden years in peace and happiness. (See letter from me to Paul Morrisey 2/21/06 in the abuse stories continued section.)
Christine McReynolds,has been terminated. "
The new board did their job with Christine. The next on the list to be terminated is Donald Miller, the law firm and the rest of the rude & ignorant group. At last, Donald Miller has been fired. That leaves on Epsten, Grinnel, and Howell to scratch off the tyrant's list.
The Paul Morrisey group have assumed their new positions--but Donald Miller is still harassing us while getting paid with funds stolen from the residents.
Does this Group (The Old Guard) Condone Senior Abuse?
There is an ignorant group who is trying to recall the new SCCA Board because they fired Christine McReynolds. They are the same people in the same 20-year-old clique who have been running Sun City. They are old, tired, and very self righteous. Their psychology is a curiosity to me. The facts, track record, and first witness accounts of SCCA's past abusive, horrendous management under Christine McReynolds have been more than substantiated by this membership. Does this group believe these abuses against seniors did not occur or does this group approve of the abusive practices? Or does it just don't care ? Either way members should quake in their socks with the knowledge there are so many mean spirited people in SCCA membership who would want a return of the evil we just terminated.
The other issue I have with this group is they are dishonest. They put out fliers claiming to be an SCCA committee leading unsuspecting members to think they are part of SCCA management. They are not. Except for a couple of names that have come forward, they work mostly in the closet, sneaky and underhanded. Are these the kind of people we would want to have any authority or control over us? They have been jaded for so long they have lost their ability to recognize right from wrong.
By the way this recall group is made up of the same 10% of SCCA membership who have been the "good ole boys' club" who have used the facilities, played cards, and generally "hung" together keeping the same obnoxious seven people on the board for the past 20 years. Is it any surprise they are filled with sour grapes and want a return of their "power". These are the same turkeys who have been enjoying SCCA facilities to the exclusion of the 90% have been paying dues to support. They don't want to lose their cash cow and have to pay for SCCA facilities themselves.
Sun City is designated a blighted area by the County!
New board or not, the only hope for Sun City to rid itself of this tyranny is to totally dissolve SCCA.
Just because there is now a"new board' doesn't absolve the malfeasance and crimes committed by the old board against the SCCA members. They still must be held accountable if Sun City is to heal and grow healthy.
Bullet Proof Lucite Wall
The bullet proof wall is the silent testimony to very bad management. It symbolizes to Sun City Core Residents what The Berlin Wall symbolized to the world. What is wrong with this picture?
What about that $26,000-light-the-lawn-bowling-green-fiasco?
"Stupid is what stupid does." Forrest Gump
Ex-Governor Gray Davis, your work is not yet done
Please correct the errors of the Davis Stirling Act
July 11, 2006
By Melvyn Klein
Los Angeles, California -
A LETTER TO EX-GOVERNOR GRAY DAVIS OF CALIFORNIA
Dear ex-Governor Gray Davis:
What prompts this letter is the article written about you in the Los Angeles Times last week. You are quoted as saying that you are proud of your public service, and you believe that overall, your contribution was a positive one. I do not doubt that you feel that way, and moreover, I believe your underlying motivation was to do good.
But there is still more you can do, that rightly falls to you to do. It has to do with legislation to which your name is attached: the Davis Stirling act.
The conditions in Community Interest Developments, Condos and Coops, are incredibly scandalous. These are literally criminal enterprises in some cases, and yet there is little reasonable recourse open to homeowners. Lawsuits are forbiddingly expensive, particularly when the opposing party, the Board and management, is spending your money to defend themselves.
Associated with these conditions is an environment of corruption extending to accountants, auditors, attorneys, contractors, and even government and law enforcement. I think that there is in this a very real danger to society at large.
There are two fundamental problems that need to be addressed:
First, there is no mechanism to enforce laws governing Common Interest Developmentss.
Second, because elections are controlled by the Boards and Management of the Associations, it can be nearly impossible to remove an abusive Board, and, in fact, the worse they are, the more contemptuous of the law they happen to be, the harder it can be to remove them.
Laws have to be changed to correct this, and good ideas to accomplish this are not hard to devise.
Some complaints could be handled in Small Claims Court, with enforcement authority. There could be legislation that would place the conduct of Board elections in the hands of independent third parties when conditions warranted.
Yet any and all efforts to achieve this are met with lobbying by attorneys and homeowner association managers, who benefit from the chaotic situation, and the legal work it brings about.
Because Davis Stirling is an element of your legacy, it would be very fitting and proper if you became involved once again to make things right. Your work is not yet done.
Sincerely,
Melvyn Klein
Santa Monica, California 90402
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