Fw: "THE FOUNTAIN OF INFORMATION" - Sunday, February 05, 2006 - SUPERBOWL SUNDAY - WELL, IT'S BEEN OVER FIVE MONTHS....

"THE FOUNTAIN OF INFORMATION" - Sunday, February 05, 2006 -
SUPERBOWL SUNDAY

WELL, IT'S BEEN OVER FIVE MONTHS BUT ALL OF THE INSURANCE
MONEY IS FINALLY IN!!!!! (I THINK????)

Yesterday, I was asking around the rear courtyard... "Is
anyone having a Superbowl Party???"... well, I was asking
some of the FEW people that are living back here... so far
the answer is "NO". Only about a third of the owners and
tenants are back here!!!!! We should have been well over
50%, if Chet and the Board would have let some of them put
FEMA trailers in the back parking lot... instead the rear
parking lot just sits there empty as do most of the damaged
units... and the few people that do live here are still so
depressed over the entire Post-Katrina debacle led by Chet
and the Board, which is probably why there isn't a Superbowl
Party in the rear courtyard.

IF?????

IF our friends and neighbors had been allowed to temporarily
live in FEMA trailers, they would have been able to move
much quicker on having their units repairs. IF Chet and the
Board would have held "Post-Katrina" weekly meetings in the
Courtyards, people would have had more and possibly better
information. IF Chet and the Board were more in touch with
the victims, the debacle concerning the "UNINSPECTED
BUILDINGS" (after the roofs were put on) might have been
avoided, which led to even more delays in owners repairing
their units. IF there had been weekly meetings, nearly all
of the owners would have known that Chet and the Board did
not get Building Inspections after the roofs were completed.
IF there had been weekly meetings, nearly all of the owners
would have known how much money they were supposed to get,
instead of the 60% LOW-BALLED figures that Chet and the
Board put out on the doors, back in October, 2005. IF Chet
and the Board had been properly communicating with everyone,
all of the owners would know that Chet and the Board have
finally started paying people the full amounts of their
insurance settlements.... WHICH AMOUNTS TO OVER $19,000.00
for a 1BR flood-victim unit, instead of the $12,000.00
figure that Chet told people IN WRITING back in October,
2005. 2BR flood victims should get around $24,000.00
(instead of $15,000.00) and 3BR flood victims should get
around $36,000.00 (instead of $24,000.00). (Chet and the
Board never did tell everyone IN WRITING what the correct
figures are... you only heard that if you receive this
newsletter). IF Chet and the Board had told everyone that
they were getting that much more money, they could have made
much nicer renovations to their units which would have
potentially raised the property values at FCC.... instead,
who knows what the long-term ramifications will be???

Well, I could go on and on with "IF?????" but I really have
to take a moment to thank Chet and the Board for their
constant debacle's over the past five months. IF it had not
been for Chet and the Board, I would not have started "The
Fountain Of Information", which led to my meeting and
communicating with so many new friends and neighbors over
the past five months. For that I say "Thank You!!!!!" to
Chet and the Board.

NOW... IF YOU DO NOT GET MORE INVOLVED IN YOUR ASSOCIATION,
THIS WILL ULTIMATELY BE OUR STORY, INSTEAD OF
CALIFORNIA'S!!!!!

Since starting "The Fountain Of Information", I have done a
lot of internet surfing and I have subscribed to many HOA
(Home Owner Association) and CID (Common Interest
Development) newsletters and groups. Below is a recent
"post", to the "HOAnet" Yahoo Group
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HOAnet ), about what is
happening with HOA's in California. The Boards of HOA's in
California are so BAD that owners have complained so much to
their State legislature that California is now trying to set
up a new government agency for the sole purpose of handling
home owner complaints about their Boards. Unfortunately,
what happens in California, eventually spreads to other
States... especially when it comes to these other States
finding a new way to TAX their people, as California is
planning to do to!!!!

Message:
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:44:44 -0800 (PST)
From:

Subject: California's New Legislature

FORGET (Genghis) KHAN AND HITLER; INDUSTRY'S ROLE MODEL IS
THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE

By Donie Vanitzian
(c) 2006 Vanitzian

The Dice of the Legislature Are Always Loaded

I am so sick of hearing the shallow chatter of
homeowners perfecting their whining technique, "But what can
I do? I'm only ONE person. No one's going to listen to ME.
I don't have the time."

There is little meaningful input from homeowners to
our legislature. Of that "input" it certainly does not
amount to a significant concerted effort that will make a
difference in the laws governing us. Most of the input from
owners toward what's happening to them by the legislature
amounts to nothing more than banal banter. Perhaps they do
not fully understand the laws they are forced to live with
and by, but that really is no excuse. After all, they chose
to buy that property that they own. Excuses aside for their
poor choices, no one put a gun to their head and said "you
will enter escrow." Interestingly enough, the same owners
that sit around and discuss patio fences and amenities for
five hours, can't be bothered to pick up a pen and paper and
blast the legislators who are responsible for bastardizing
laws governing how we are forced to live. Or, worse yet,
they don't vote in their association's elections and they
haven't bothered to read their governing documents,
never mind they don't have a clue what a proxy or a ballot
is. Or, even if they do, everything's rigged so why bother.

Then there are the homeowner letters that
Legislators bury or lose. We'll never know how many of us
did try to have our voices heard. All are meant to
discourage our attempt to obtain fairness in the laws.

The saying in criminal law is, "if nobody talks,
everybody walks." That's what's happening here. The owners
aren't complaining loud enough, or they are complaining
about the wrong things, or they are not convincing enough
for anyone to take proper notice, so the criminals - you
know who they are - are out there, "walking."

Nowhere is this more prevalent than in associations
where owners moan and groan, "I don't know where the money
is going!" Me: "did you make a demand to look at the books
and records?" Them: "well yes, but I didn't get an answer."
Me: "Did you make another demand?" Them: "Well, kinda, I
saw some books, the ones they let me see." Me: "And you
settled for that did you?" Them: "What else was I supposed
to do?" Then there are those who say , "none of our
association's numbers add up, I know my board is lying to
me!" Predicable question follows: "And then what did you do,
nothing?"

The problem with these realities is that they
repeat themselves a billion times across America. The money
too, adds up to billions in lost homeowner funds. Well,
"lost" isn't quite the right word, "theft, robbery,
embezzlement, deceit, fraud" are probably more realistic
terms. But is it really theft when the board of directors is
RESPONSIBLE for watching the fox in the henhouse? If you
hire criminals do you not get what you paid for?

Here's what all that boils down to for owners: You
don't care if you are lied to.

Industry Insurgents

The industry are not per se insurgents, they are an
organized gang. That's right, they are legal gangsters. How
did the association industry come to own our legislature?
The industry is not armed in the literal sense, but they are
no less "armed." They are armed with money. Industry wields
an unearned air of authority through campaign contributions.
While money can't buy you love, it can buy you a Senator or
Assembly member or even an impressionable Zogby poll or two,
which in turn influences let alone buys, the laws you need
passed. They now spin and beat that poll to death. Where did
that Zogby poll end up? It ended up being quoted in
California's legislature in support of that bogus
Ombudsman's bill. Industry's opposition or armed resistance
so to speak, to an established government that was supposed
to protect us as homeowners has far more influence than a
simple owner of a piece of property.

Let's go back in time for just a moment. Carefully
ponder these three historical events: Genghis Khan
conquered provinces inch-by-inch eliminating competition by
destroying those humans who competed with him. "Him" is not
plural. It is singular. Khan was a Mongol conqueror who then
united the Mongol Tribes. Genghis Khan became "plural" when
he gathered support. The result of his efforts was a gain in
HIS 'land.' He conquered Turkistan, Transoxania,
Afghanistan, and raided Persia and eastern Europe and did it
by killing people and taking what they had. The key here was
Khan's ANNEXATION of northern China, central Asia, Iran, and
southern Russia. With the gain in land his influence and
prominence grew exponentially and ruled the greatest land
empires of history.

Nomads, otherwise known as "turks" from Turkistan
wanted what others had as well. They liked what other
successful and thriving nations had accumulated, but didn't
want to work that hard toward accomplishment. So they just
"took" what they wanted. After all, Genghis Khan did it, why
not the turks. The turks planned an extermination. They
accomplished their means by annihilating through genocide,
the already successful Armenian people (at that time a
thriving large country). [FN1] Not only was the Armenian
culture stolen from them the devastation of the Armenians
occurred in their native homeland. U.S. Ambassador
Morganthau stated, "The most terrible scenes took place at
the rivers especially at the Euphrates, in a loop of the
river near Erzinghan . . . the thousands of dead bodies
created such a barrage that the Euphrates changed its course
for about a hundred yards." Instantly, the country of
Turkey was put on the map and quick to rewrite history due
to their thievery
yielding a new found "heritage" from others who took
centuries to build it. At the time, Turkey had no real
ascertainable culture of their own. Theirs was a culture
that was obtained by pillaging the riches of others and
Turkey's prominence grew exponentially. [FN3]

Soon the whitewash by way of spin machines sprung
into action, "The goal of the Turkish government and its
collaborators is to undermine the authenticity of the
Genocide [and] expunge it from the textbooks." [FN1] Turkish
officials: "You don't seem to understand what we want. We
want an Armenia without Armenians."[FN6]

The lack of "action following the Armenian genocide
was an important precedent for the subsequent Jewish
Holocaust of World War II." [FN2] Hitler wanted a Germany
without any Jews, and toward the end he wanted a world free
of Jews. [FN3] In both the Armenian and the Jewish cases,
when given the opportunity individuals were forced to
conform (change religions or beliefs) or be killed. Hitler
annihilated an entire race person-by-person then graduated
country-by-country to fulfill his takeover of the world.

Hitler praised Genghis Khan. "On August 22, 1939,
Adolf Hitler gave a secret speech to his top military
advisers, outlining his plans for German settlement of
Poland. The speech so shocked his audience that a copy was
smuggled out to the British embassy. What follows is the
transcript, now in the files of the Foreign Office in
London." [FN4] Hitler said: "Our strength lies in our
quickness and in our brutality; Genghis Khan has sent
millions of women and children into death knowingly and with
a light heart. History sees in him only the great founder of
States. [referring to the Turks he said] Who still talks
nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?" [FN4,5]

They Are Taking Your Property

Taking away our real and personal property today is
much easier than changing the course of the Euphrates. But
the ease and progression of taking our assets is no less
painful or calculated than centuries past. Oh it's nothing
as sinister as contemplating the return of the Ottoman
Empire, but given the totality of the circumstances the
industry's quickness and brutality is no less devastating.

Like the turks who wanted what others had but
didn't want to work that hard to get it, industries today
have devised ways to merely "take" what they want. The
industry is not interested in legitimacy, they don't need to
be interested in something as mundane as THAT. They have no
interest in articulating a unified ideology because they
already own the laws and lawmakers that govern title
holders. Their indignation lies in the fact that they are
burdened in dealing with homeowners at all. They are
repulsed by the fact they simply cannot stick an intravenous
device directly into our bank accounts. Not to worry, they
are nearly "indirectly" there. The recapture of our equity
is part of that intravenous drip. Our equity is depleted in
many different ways; these silent killers deplete your
personal assets while you sleep.

Drip: The creation of another government bureaucracy named
Ombudsman.
Drip: Pay to fund the Ombudsman office and pay for material
distributed by them.
Drip: Pay the California Secretary of State a
per-association registration fee of $50.00 (and $20.00 per
owner).
Drip: Pay escrow transfer fees that keep getting porked up.
Drip: Pay 20%+ rise in assessments without a vote and going
up.
Drip: Pay special assessments.
Drip: Pay emergency assessments.
Drip: Pay association judgments.
Drip: Pay association attorneys.
Drip: Pay for your own attorneys.
Drip: Pay for association insurance policies.
Drip: Pay for management company to file a bogus notice of
assessments on your title courtesy of your stupid board.
Drip: Paying mystery fees.
Drip: Pay for association parties and functions and
attendance at seminars.
Drip: Pay for management company unaccountability and
infiltration of your association.
Drip: Pay for board of directors unaccountability through
insurance indemnification.
Drip: Pay for the association's attorney retainer agreements
and fees, fees, fees.
Drip: Pay the association to bring lawsuits and restraining
orders against owners like you.
Drip: Pay fines, penalties, foreclosure, loss of Homestead
exemption
Drip: Pay for maintenance.
Drip: Pay for incompetence.

And the drip goes on . . .

Why is history so important to us in what seems
such a minor problem in comparison to the discussions above?
Because piecemeal the outcome of industry's influence will
have no less an impact than the outcomes above. How will you
start over? What will your new quality-of-life be like? What
could be worse than losing your property or personal
belongings that took you a lifetime to acquire? Those in the
events above lost their properties and their personal
belongings to thieves. Obviously, as homeowners we are
unlikely to be murdered in the literal sense, BUT as more
laws are activated stripping us of our rights, we are unable
to protect our homes, families, and personal assets. The
results are that we end up being the personal banking system
for a parasitic industry. We lose our individual
accumulated wealth and our lives are paralyzed. Ruined.
Destroyed.

What has happened to private individuals through
time will also happen to us. Death may not come in the
literal sense, but what's left over may be worse. Not
unlike those who are dependent on life support controlled by
strangers -- once bankrupted or gradually stripped of our
personal assets to the extent it will be impossible for us
to experience life as we once knew it or as we want to know
it -- we are in no better position than those plundered and
left behind by the nomads. Perhaps you'll find that pen and
paper now and write that letter you've been meaning to
write.

FOOTNOTES:
[FN1] During the Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Future
Foreign Policy Research and Development of the Committee on
International Relations House of Representatives, 94th
Cong., 2d Sess (May 11, Aug. 30, 1972) Washington DC 1976,
Testimony states: Unprecedented in human history, the Turks
resorted to a device that involved the release from all
prisons of the Ottoman Empire and the most blood-thirsty
criminals called in Turkish kanli katil, estimated to be
between 15,000 and 20,000. They were put in military
uniform, retrained and deployed strategically so as to
execute the task of mass slaughter under most primitive
conditions.
[FN2] V. Dadrian, Genocide as a Problem of National and
International Law; The World War I Armenian Case and its
Contemporary Legal Ramifications, 14 Yale J. Int'l L. 221
(1989).
[FN3] Vanitzian & Kopkin, 'In the Name of the People' -- A
Faustian Paradox: The Betrayal By Physicians, Lawyers,
Judges, Academics and Ethicists of the Sovereign People's
Ultimate Civil Liberty (1997).
[FN4] Hitler's Plan's for Genocide: A Speech From 1939, 313
Brit. Med. J. 1416 (1996).
[FN5] Louis Lochner, Office of U.S. Chief of Counsel for
Prosecution of Axis Criminals (Berlin correspondent for
Associated Press). 7 Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression 752-754
(Washington, D.C. 1946).
[FN6] V. Dadrian, The Naim-Andonian Documents, 19 Int'l J.
Middle East Studies 332 (1998).

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I wasn't sure who Donie Vanitzian was so I did a quick
Google Search and found the following page at the "American
Homeowners Resource Center":

http://www.ahrc.com/new/index.php/src/tools/sub/yp/action/display/id/776

Summary: Donie Vanitzian and Stephen Glassman are author's
of a column in the Los Angeles Times, titled COMMON INTEREST
LIVING. They have investigated the industry, analyzed
"forced-community" living and discovered the secrets of
boards, management companies and their attorneys and
recorded the information in their book:

Click this link for more information: Villa Appalling!
Destroying the Myth of Affordable Community Living - A New
Textbook for Understanding Common Interest Developments,
Homeowner Associations and Planned Communities

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IN COMING EDITIONS, THERE WILL BE MORE ON WHAT OTHER STATES
ARE DOING TO CONTROL THE "OUT-OF-CONTROL HOA BOARDS" IN
THEIR STATES!!!!! IT'S NOT JUST A PROBLEM AT F.C.C.A....
IT'S A NATIONWIDE PROBLEM!!!!! HOPEFULLY, LOUISIANA'S
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL CONTINUE TO REPRESENT HOMEOWNERS IN
LOUISIANA SO WE DO NOT HAVE TO START PAYING A NEW TAX FOR A
NEW GOVERNMENT AGENCY IN LOUISIANA.

I hope everyone has a festive SUPERBOWL SUNDAY and...

Until next time... let "The Fountain Of Information"
flow!!!!!

Sincerely,

Lenny Vasbinder, Editor
"The Fountain Of Information"
http://www.NeighborhoodHomeServices.com
Hurricane Damage Cleanup, Gutting & Tear-Outs,
Sheetrock & Flooring Removal, Handyman Repairs,
Homeowner's Contractors Agent (HCA), etc.
http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com
504-621-1870 eFax - 413-318-0742
NHSNOLA@Gmail.com

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