During the last twenty–five years, Homeowners Associations have become your fastest growing and most ignored local government. Usually they are controlled by a few arrogant board directors derived from the criminal mentality in most of these subdivisions. It follows that these act in rotating combination as either the power–trippers or attendees, hence taking turns with their ‘do as we please’ attitude.
Attendees at local monthly meetings are few or none, and often the Boards are short of over–the–hill Gangsters to run and serve as abusive power–trippers. Sometimes the attendees, if any, are asked during a meeting to serve as a Gangster on the Board. Many times the required number of Gangsters do not show, and so there is no meeting.
Apathy feeds and then creates this criminal fraction. Under the guise as a volunteer ‘do–gooder’, the potential power–tripper learns fast while working with the few racketeering attorneys servicing these local governments. A single attorney alone can strong–arm members in hundreds of these unofficial governments by conspiring with two or three long–time sitting power–trippers in each Association.
How is that for almighty power?
Most Boards themselves have become offensive Nuisances in their own neighborhoods. Setting the double standard of enforcing deed restrictions helps them weed out people who oppose their breach of authority. If you don’t like it here, then move out! The truth is violations and crime would be greatly diminished in most subdivisions if the Gangster Board and their conspiring attorney were in prison.
A small, specialized group of attorneys have created a cottage industry, realizing that Gangsters in Homeowner Associations have no watchdogs. Restrictive Covenants have been violated by dozens of Associations by illegally increasing their assessments. Unlimited Association funds plus insurance defense funds are available to hire the best of these attorneys at $200 plus an hour. Gangsters feel untouchable, invincible, especially when conniving with the specialized Brotherhood, knowing well the protection afforded to them under the Property Code. Their attorneys have won them phenomenal case law power by using these Association funds. All these pursuits are supposedly for the preservation of the community and the property values, but in reality are illegal and are officer liabilities subject to lawsuits against them.
Many power–trippers use deed restrictions from other Gangster Associations they themselves would like to have as their own. They also make up deed restrictions creating them from broad interpretations of case law making refinement mandatory.
Appearance is everything. Soon butt–naked kids in your front yard will be illegal. “Warm Tones” (colors), is the one that gets me. Don’t want to see that purple color on houses like they use in the inner city so–called ghettos. When I hear this, I wonder whatever happened to our Constitution. Makes me feel like growing eight–foot corn in my front yard.
Associations have been awarded stupid constructive notice by statute made so by attorney politicians. The reasonable person is yet to be found that went downtown to see their deed restrictions in the clerk’s file. From this still exists plenty of coercion at the time of closing for many unsuspecting homebuyers. No wonder the wild surge is on to find your own five acres way out somewhere, and take your chances living in a trailer hoping to neither blow or float away from a disaster.
Most Homeowners do not desire to be in an Association, do not even know they are a part of one and if they later find out, choose not to have anything to do with it. Neither do they care about the questionable benefits derived from these unpopular but rising mobster organizations. Just pay the annual assessment, whatever it is, and leave us alone.
A rapid fifteen years have been spent building this local government for your so–called benefit. Still this is a strange form of government in which Homeowners cannot afford to fight, especially when the Homeowner has been seriously wronged by practicing Gangsters incurring liability in violating reasonable care. Few have $5,000 – 150,000 to fight the New Gangster in town. Homeowners and renters must rely on Gangsters to be fair and lenient. Judges like Homeowner Association attorneys who have contributed to election campaigns, allowing these racketeers with their fabrications to waltz through their Courts by never reading the documents presented before it.
Return of costs and fees to the Homeowner are not always awarded when suing for enforcement of their diminishing rights while Gangster Associations are slush funds for Gangster misdeeds.
Why are Association Board Gangsters allowed to have slush funds to defend its violations? Namely, these violations include their breach of official responsibility, failure to keep within a budget, exhibiting deception both verbally in writing to its members, and acting maliciously and discriminatory in exercising its authority towards its members. The homeowner/ members do not have affordable remedies against these Gangster Associations.
The State should revoke many of these non–profit franchises for failure in following corporate formalities.
Sometimes we have been told, “Sorry you live in a corrupt and malicious Association, but mine isn’t that way.”
How do they know that?