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TEXAS – Meyerland CIA Board opposes residential facility for single-parent families fearing it will degrade home values; suspends prohibition on yard signs in opposition effort
Southwest News: Meyerland CIA Board opposes residential facility for single-parent families fearing it will degrade home values; suspends prohibition on yard signs in opposition effort
By Kathleen Ballanfant
June 26, 2012
Southwest Houston
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TEXAS – Kleinbrook HOA past due on electric bill. Reliant Energy cuts off power.
HOUSTON (KTRK) — One neighborhood is without power tonight, but it’s not because of a problem with its power company. Instead, the power company says homeowners should blame the blackout on their homeowners association.
FLORIDA – 2 families now suffering after HOA foreclosure in Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. —
One house in Orlando could end up having two families facing foreclosure.
A family bid in an online auction on a foreclosed home in the Meadow Woods subdivision. However, those bidders didn’t know they’re now on the hook for the previous owner’s mortgage, said Channel 9’s Jamie Holmes. Read more:
TEXAS – Property manager gets 35 years for HOA theft
HOUSTON (KTRK) — Hundreds of homeowners are learning that their homeowners association fees didn’t go to the improvement or upkeep of their neighborhood. Instead, a man has admitted to taking the money and they’ll never see it again.
Property manager Taggert Mayfield was sentenced to 35 years in prison Friday for stealing a major amount of money from numerous homeowners associations who hired his company, Arrow Community Management. Read more:
TEXAS – Residents battle it out with San Antonio HOA
by Stacia Willson / KENS 5
kens5.com
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 7:37 PM
Many living in The Villages of West Creek subdivision along Loop 1604 and Military are frustrated with their homeowners association, saying they feel they are being personally harassed.
“When it’s just every week, and you know to the point where you feel like they’re just harassing you it becomes – it’s not enjoyable to live in a neighborhood like this anymore,” said resident Christopher White. Read more:
NEVADA – Nothing funny about long list of HOA corruption defendants
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Nothing funny about long list of HOA corruption defendants
They entered U.S. District Judge James Mahan’s courtroom Thursday like the walking wounded in a losing battle.
A couple limped along on crutches. Others admitted using prescription sedatives, the stuff designed to mask high anxiety. One couldn’t get to court because he suffered from double pneumonia.
Those who did manage to make it appeared shell-shocked, and who could blame them? Read more:
NEVADA – Points to be aware of in HOA scandal
By Steve Green
Sunday 3 June 2012 2 a.m.
The number of defendants in the criminal case involving HOA corruption could eventually top 50, making this one of the larger criminal schemes in Las Vegas history. But to put things in perspective, there are 2,356 homeowner associations in Clark County and 2,979 statewide, meaning just a small fraction were affected by the scam.
Which condominium complexes were affected?
Lawsuits and federal plea bargains name these developments:
Chateau Versailles, Chateau Nouveau, Horizons at Seven Hills, Jasmine, Mission Pointe, Mission Ridge, Palmilla, Park Avenue, Pebble Creek, Sunset Cliffs, Terrasini and Vistana.
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NEVADA: HOA scandal involving millions of dollars and thousands of homes cuts wide swath across Las Vegas Valley
By Steve Green
Sunday 3 June 2012 2 a.m.
In 2006, condominium owners in Las Vegas’ Vistana community were accused by a lawyer of dreaming up wild, Oliver Stone-like conspiracy theories as they complained about corruption in their community association.
After six years, more than two dozen guilty plea deals and four untimely deaths among witnesses or participants, the Vistana owners say they have been vindicated in their suspicions that their community association board had been hijacked so that lucrative legal work and repairs involving construction defects would be steered to particular individuals. Read more:
NEVADA – Fourteen more plead guilty in Las Vegas HOA fraud, corruption case
Fourteen more defendants pleaded guilty Thursday in the sweeping investigation into fraud and corruption at Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations.
U.S. District Judge James Mahan began accepting the pleas in two waves a little after 10 a.m. in one of the biggest group deals federal prosecutors have put together in Nevada. Read more:
FLORIDA – Foreclosed over $250: A local family’s nightmare
“I was re-financing my home and I was at closing and they said there’s a lien that showed up for three thousand dollars in legal fees and I said no, where did you get that?”
Noemi and her husband Juan were thrown into a world of legal bills, unreturned phone calls and sleepless nights.
Their homeowners association says the couple missed their annual payment, and the late fines and legal fees began adding up, to the tune of more than 3,000 dollars. Read more:
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