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Homeowner Associations: Another Housing Minefield

HOAs are a blight across the country. Developers and Municipalities get something for nothing. Homeowners are left holding the bag. There is zero disclosure about the potential problems to folks who think they are just buying a home. Worse, lawyers and prop managers have a lobby that fights to maintain the status quo. They even brag about how they fought laws that would allow homeowners to fly the American flag! HOAs are litigation vortexes; money in the bank for these vendors on the payroll of associations. Pulte homes found that people under 50 want nothing to do with them. They will eventually all be vacant wastelands.

Homeowners Associations: Villians Or Victims in Foreclosure Crisis? [Housing Tracker]

Oh and Joyce...your are right. HOA forclosures are a joke...why do them...FOR THE FEES THEY GENERATE...THATS ALL!
The HOA lawyers just rack up the fees for a worthless 'win'.
Bob Tankel is racing to the courthouse before the board, rank amatuers, figure it out.
It is all a sordid joke.

Homeowners Associations: Villians Or Victims in Foreclosure Crisis? [Housing Tracker]

Get on the board , what a joke!
The folks who get on the board and try to open the political process, make the association finances visable and transparent, and disperse power to prevent tyrany (see Madison's Federalist #47...yea you know....the principle of our Amercian Constitution..) are quickly alienated by the board, who are almost always power-hungry idiots.
The truth is since 2000, 4 out of 5 homes built are in HOAs. This is due to municipalities insisting upon them as they provide little to no services to them, and save a bundle while adding to the tax base.
60 million Americans are living in communities where lawyers and property managers rip them off as a matter of course, and the same lawyers and property managers give money to our state level politicians (see Community Associations Institute) to keep the laws from protecting homeowners (and INCREASING OUR PROPERTY VALUES!).
Losing your home for a few hundred dollars, and scum like Bob Tankel 'racing to the courthouse' to foreclose?
Boy, that really makes your house more valuable and HOAs more desirable to live in!!!

Homeowners Associations: Villians Or Victims in Foreclosure Crisis? [Housing Tracker]

Homeowners associations are one of the greatest frauds thrust upon American citizens...ever.

Developers walk away from these communities after the money is made; municipalities add to their tax base but provide little to no services...and the homeowner is left holding the bag.

An entire industry has been created to cash in on the estitmated 40 billion dollars under management in associations nationwide,and the almost complete absence of State oversight of these amatuer run organizations.

The Florida attorney Bob Tankel, who 'races to the courthouse steps' to forclose on homeowners for just a few dollars, has had his license to practice law suspended for lying to the court. He was also caught red handed attempting to rig an election in a Florida homeowners associations.

www.ccfj.net/HOAFLLind...

St. Petersburg Times, dated December 11, 2003: "Robert Leon Tankel of Dunedin was suspended for 15 days and given 18 months' probation. Tankel, 47, made a false statement while representing a client, the Bar found. "

There are thousands of Americans who have sought help from their state legislators, only to find a large lobbying organization, the Community Associations Institiute, an organization representing lawyers and property managers, barring the door to ANY legislation that would provide creation and/or enforcement of existing laws that would protect homeowners from this rapacious industry.