Category Archives: Uncategorized

TEXAS – New HOA Documentary Film, The HOAX

Apr 5

Posted by

NEW HOA DOCUMENTARY FILM, THE HOAX
April 5, 2012
Denton, TX

Rodney Gray,  a former U.S. Marine, an actor and a filmmaker, is currently directing and producing a feature documentary on the homeowners’ association (HOA) industry for submission to film festivals and future distribution, and also as his MFA production thesis at the University of North Texas.

His new film, The HOAX, follows an investigative reporter, homeowners, and HOA reform activists as they reveal shocking evidence of financial and psychological hardships experienced by people throughout Texas and Nevada. A few of these people, including the filmmaker, have been the subject of adverse actions from the very HOAs created to help them.

Please  visit the following websites to find out more information, get updates and watch the teaser trailer.

The HOAX Movie Website:

http://thehoaxfilm.com/

The HOAX Trailer Tease and Campaign Website:

www.indiegogo.com/thehoaxfilm

Posted in Uncategorized

Comments Off on TEXAS – New HOA Documentary Film, The HOAX

Texas – Elderly couple can’t go back to burned condo but must keep paying fees

Mar 29

Posted by

statesman.com –  Statesman Watch: Elderly couple can’t go back to burned condo but must keep paying fees

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Updated: 9:51 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Published: 9:24 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, 2012

More than a year after their condominium was burned in a fire, Tellmond and Jacquelynn Richter, both in their 80s, remain in limbo about returning to their home. Cambridge Tower, damaged in a January 2011 fire that took out the entire eighth floor, has yet to be restored, and to make matters worse, the Richters are bound by homeowner association covenants to continue paying a $561 monthly maintenance fee.  Read more:

Posted in Uncategorized

Comments Off on Texas – Elderly couple can’t go back to burned condo but must keep paying fees

TEXAS – Man tags own home: Neighbors dislike graffiti – and message

Mar 28

Posted by

Kens5.com:  Man tags own home: Neighbors dislike graffiti — and message

by Karen Grace / KENS 5

Posted on March 27, 2012 at 9:45 PM

San Antonio

Residents are outraged that a home was tagged on their street. The twist is that the homeowner spray painted it himself.

Now residents say the eyesore is turning their street into a parade route for all the wrong reasons.

On March 10, Daryl McClain’s truck was stolen from his home in the 5700 block of Clearwood. So what did he do?

He tagged his own house, and neighbors say he did not keep the message clean.

“I speak my mind,” McClain boasted outside his tagged garage door. “Most people keep it in.”  Read more:

Posted in Uncategorized

Comments Off on TEXAS – Man tags own home: Neighbors dislike graffiti – and message

TEXAS – No time limitation on rentals that satisfy the single-family purpose requirement

Mar 17

Posted by

Travis County, Texas
98th Judicial District Court
March 13, 2012
Gary Harger, the Presiding Judge of the 98th Judicial District Court,  granted homeowner Marvin William Hays, Jr. its order granting Defendant’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment in part. The Court found that the restrictive covenants do not place a time limitation on rentals or otherwise ban rentals that satisfy the single-family purpose requirement of the restrictive covenants. The Briarcliff Property Owners Association, Inc. had banned short-term rentals.  Mr. Hay’s attorney, J. Patrick Sutton, announced their success in getting that ban overturned.

Posted in Uncategorized

Comments Off on TEXAS – No time limitation on rentals that satisfy the single-family purpose requirement

TEXAS – Security officers’ duties questioned in POA

Mar 8

Posted by

ABCLocal.go.com – Security officers’ duties questioned in POA

Updated at 06:20 PM
 8 March 2012

SPRING, TX (KTRK) — Residents in one Spring community are split over a decision to hire private security officers to patrol their streets. It sounds like a great idea, but residents are also being told they could get pulled over and potentially have to pay a fine to their homeowners association.

The Legends Ranch property owners association recently added a patrol in an effort, they tell us, to get drivers to slow down while driving through the neighborhood and to also stop at stop signs. But some question if the officers on patrol have the authority to pull people over.  Read more:

Posted in Uncategorized

Comments Off on TEXAS – Security officers’ duties questioned in POA

TEXAS – Round Rock couple wins court battle with HOA

Mar 7

Posted by

03/06/2012 05:48 PM

 

Austin – Your News Now – Round Rock couple wins court battle with HOA

 

By: John A. Salazar

 

A couple in Round Rock says a simple shed in their backyard wound up costing them $10,000 in the attorney fees. The Pattons took a disagreement with their HOA over the shed’s construction to court, and walked away winners Tuesday.
After spending more than $3,000 on building materials and $10,000 on attorney fees, a Round Rock couple has won their battle against their homeowners association.

The Pattons say the association abused its authority when it escalated a dispute over a simple construction project. The couple built a shed in their backyard, which they say was in line with the Laurel Ridge Homeowners Association’s by-laws.  Read more:

Posted in Uncategorized

Comments Off on TEXAS – Round Rock couple wins court battle with HOA

TEXAS – Spring family gets to keep pet kangaroo

Mar 2

Posted by

From: abclocal.go.com – Spring family gets to keep pet kangaroo

Updated at 04:41 AM today

 

SPRING, TX (KTRK) — A family who was ordered to give up their kangaroo by their homeowners association has been given a reprieve.

The Dreis family lives in the Estates of Legend Ranch in Spring and is raising a red kangaroo named Mike. The family wants to use Mike at a facility to help provide education and vocational training to disabled adults. Read more:

Posted in Uncategorized

Comments Off on TEXAS – Spring family gets to keep pet kangaroo

TEXAS – Family fights to keep baby red kangaroo planned for preserve

Feb 27

Posted by

From: yourhoustonnews.com – Family fights to keep baby red kangaroo planned for preserve

 

Posted: Monday, February 27, 2012 3:25 pm | Updated: 4:48 pm, Mon Feb 27, 2012.

SPRING — The homeowners association for the Estates of Legends Ranch off Aldine Westfield in South Montgomery County is demanding a local family get rid of a baby red kangaroo because the small marsupial violates the subdivision’s restrictions.  Read more:

Posted in Uncategorized

Comments Off on TEXAS – Family fights to keep baby red kangaroo planned for preserve

TEXAS – Laws loosen HOA grip on homeowners

Feb 4

Posted by

 

 Houston Chronicle

Laws loosen HOA grip on homeowners

Jennifer Hiller, Houston Chronicle

By Jennifer Hiller

Updated 11:23 p.m., Friday, February 3, 2012
Read story:

 
 
 

Posted in Uncategorized

Comments Off on TEXAS – Laws loosen HOA grip on homeowners

FLORIDA: Homeowners association pursues extreme option – foreclosure – against Korean War veteran

Jan 22

Posted by

Orlando Sentinel: Homeowners association pursues extreme option — foreclosure — against Korean War veteran

 
Lauren Ritchie COMMENTARY

January 22, 2012

 

A measly $338.91.

That’s how much Sherman McCray owed his homeowner association when the board of directors foreclosed on his Clermont house.

Of course, the debt wasn’t just $338.91 by the time a Lake County judge on Jan. 3 ordered the 81-year-old Korean War veteran’s home sold. Oh, no. Between 2010 when McCray failed to pay a homeowners assessment and that final hearing, the all-powerful homeowner association in the Vistas subdivision had levied late fees, costs and interest, and it had busied itself running up absurd lawyer bills by sending threatening letters at every turn.

Total cost now: $4,272.24.  Read more:

 
 

Posted in Uncategorized

Comments Off on FLORIDA: Homeowners association pursues extreme option – foreclosure – against Korean War veteran

← Older Posts
Newer Posts →