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Shedding some light on As Dues Dry Up,Neighbors PayMarch 25th, 2009
I would like to bring some light to the entities you interviewed for As
Dues Dry Up, Neighbors Pay.
Did you realize that the management companies you talked to wereactually all aliases of John Carona? This almost looked like preparatory
work solicited by Carona to bilk even more money out of homeowners.
How about an investigative story into Caronas actions in the legislature
to benefit his management companies to the great detriment of the
constituent homeowners?
Sen. Carona has been authoring legislation that has been very
detrimental to homeowners for the benefit of his management companies
for many years. Often times these alleged debts or failure to pay
assessments are because he institutes a priority of payment scam in
the subdivisions managed by his management companies. Homeowners
will be accused of violating some restrictive covenant. They will then be
fined. As a result of the re-characterization scheme, he generates evenmore collection fees because since the assessment money was re-
characterized the homeowner will be deemed to be late on assessments.
Austins Fox 7 News did a story on Caronas unscrupulous practices in
November 2006.
The violations that his organization cites are often not violations at all or
they are trying to enforce unenforceable restrictions. With private
fining, no due process, no equal protection, and no courtroom, the
private police do quite well engaging in what most laypersons would refer
to as extortion. Pay Carona or lose your home. Pay up and shut up or it
will be worse for you next time.
Take a look at the management companies you mentioned and decidewhether you actually obtained independent opinions or whether you
were just promulgating Caronas viewpoint:
Associa is Carona
Colorado Association Services is Carona
Massingham & Associates is Carona
M&C Associations Management is Carona
Kramer-Triad is Carona
If you doubt me, you can verify yourself at the following link:
http://www.associaonline.com/siteapps/AllOfficesList.aspx
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The board members interviewed are from HOAs managed by Caronas
management companies. There is often an unholy alliance between the
board members and the vendors such as Caronas management
companies. The Board members ensure that Carona keeps the business
and Carona ensures that the board members stay in power either by
managing the voting process, instituting policies to protect the
incumbents like voter disenfranchisement, nominating committees, and
proxy voting.
Carona is also interested in trying to protect those lucrative vendor
contracts that his management companies recommend to the HOAafter careful analysis of the market. Insurance is one of the big ones.
The payments will be made to Associa Policyholders - another Carona
alias. Want a resale certificate? You will have to purchase it from
Community Archives - another Carona alias. That community website?
Association Community Websites is yet another Carona alias. Of course
the management company carefully shops around to ensure that the
HOA gets a good deal on these services, wink, wink, nod, nod. By the
way, if a claim is made against the insurance policy Carona expects 10%
of any payout - not as a deductible but rather as compensation. Perhaps
much could be done about the financial affairs of associations by
investigating the vendors that have been bilking the members of the
HOAs for so long.
I respect the Wall Street Journal and have previously worked with Wall
Street Journal reporters. Im disappointed that this story gave the false
impression of an independent geographic sampling of HOAs,
management companies, and vendors when in fact this is the same
organization. Can we count on the Wall Street Journal to dig a little
deeper into the independence of its sources in the future?
In addition, with respect to the advice regarding reading the bylaws,
such advice is useless. The Board can and and often does change the
bylaws as it suits the Board to the detriment of the homeowners. The
homeowner has little recourse when the Board tramples the bylaws and
the homeowner has no protection against bylaws changing. Any reliance
on bylaws is thus a misplaced sense of security. The Bylaws areprimarily used for the Boards benefit to the members detriment, not as
a restraint against the Board.
Thanks, however, for at least getting part of the problem some public
exposure.
Bill Davis, P.E.
Davis & Associates
Dripping Springs, TX 78620
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February 26th, 2009
Straw men - a lazy rhetorical device used to characterize those who
disagree with you in a fundamentally dishonest way. Can be a sign of a
person who lacks confidence in the merits of his ideas.
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Annual Ledges Christmas PartyDecember 3rd, 2008
It is our custom to provide a seasonal arrangement for the enjoyment of
our neighbors in attendance at the annual Ledges Christmas party. This
year, however, the need in our broader community is greater than usual.
Therefore, an equivalent contribution will be made to the Hendersonville
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