"The Fountain Of Information" - Thursday, May 11, 2006
CHET'S BOARD SHOWS THEIR IGNORANCE AND POTENTIALLY FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY ONCE AGAIN!!!!!
05-09-2006 - I actually started typing this email when I got home from work on Monday night around midnight but I held off on sending it to see what kind of reply I would get to my request to the Board. I have set forth a trap to catch "Chet's Board" or the FCCA Attorney in a fraudulent and illegal act of deceit and basically an OUTRIGHT LIE once again!!!!! If the FCCA Attorney did actually bill FCCA, then HE IS A FRAUD. If he didn't, then it just proves ONCE AGAIN.... WHAT A LYING, DECEITFUL, FRAUDULENT MANAGER AND/OR BOARD YOU HAVE RUNNING FOUNTAIN COURT CONDOMINIUMS.
05-11-2006 - It turns out that there may have actually been an invoice from Adams & Reese to FCCA for 0.25 hours for "Correspondence via email with tenant of condominium unit". Now the big question... when was the last time you billed one party for an email that you got from another party????? Is this the kind of "legal" representation that you want at FCCA?????
NOW BACK TO MY ORIGINAL EMAIL THAT I DID NOT SEND ON MONDAY NIGHT.
I'll assume that Eileen Garey, the NEW FCCA President, is not back in town and this is "Chet's Board" last pitiful act of ignorance and potentially fraudulent activity. When I got in from work on Monday night around midnight, there was a note hanging on my door. It was on Fountain Court Condominiums stationery but it was unsigned so who knows if this was authorized by the Board or if it was just Chet Hingle's ignorance and deceit showing it's ugly face once again.
Here is what the letter said:
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FOUNTAIN COURT CONDOMINIUMS
P.O. Box 74652, Metairie, LA 70033
6901 Veterans Blvd., Metairie, LA 70003
Tel # (504) 456-6603 Fax # (504) 456-6603
INVOICE
TO: Lenny Vasbinder
Tenant
Unit #93 (Yes, it had #93, although I live in #94)
DATE: May 8, 2006
Unauthorized communication with FCC Association Attorney $45.00
Remit promptly.
(UNSIGNED)
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MY REPLY TO FCCA:
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05/09/2006
FCCA Board
Please give me a copy of the invoice from Malcolm Meyer so I can verify that he actually billed FCCA.
Thank you,
s/ L. Vasbinder #94
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Now, obviously, I will NOT pay this ridiculously stupid INVOICE even if Malcolm Meyer billed FCCA but the bigger question is the ignorance of the Manager or Board Members who thought they could actually bill me for this fraudulent and illegal invoice and then they actually put it in writing... go figure?????
First off, they do not have any control over who or whom I choose to communicate with. Second, if the FCC Attorney billed FCCA for my communications with him, then FCCA should have told him... "We're not paying for you to communicate with tenants, mortgagees, editors, etc. If you want to bill that person, then do it, but don't bill us!!!! We're not paying!!!!" But instead, it seems that YOUR MANAGER AND BOARD chose to pay this INVOICE WITH YOUR MONEY and is now trying to pass this illegitimate expense off to me.
Remember, this is the same MANAGER AND BOARD THAT AGREED TO PAY ALMOST $30,000.00 FOR THREE DAYS OF TRASH REMOVAL AND IS NOW CONTESTING THAT CHARGE WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A FEW THOUSAND DOLLARS AT MOST. Well, I hope they contest this $45.00 charge as well but they probably won't since it's not Chet's money that he is wasting... IT'S YOURS!!!!!
Well... I hope they aren't holding their breath waiting for me to pay. Well, actually, it might not be a bad thing if they were holding their breath waiting for me to pay. :-D
NOW... HERE IS A REPRINT OF MY EMAILS TO AN ATTORNEY THAT I LEARNED WAS REPRESENTING FCCA AND HIS REPLIES:
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Date: 03/19/2006
From: Lenny Vasbinder
Re: Fountain Court Condo Assn - upcoming Annual Meeting and Board Member Election
Dear Mr. Meyer,
I understand that you are the attorney for FCCA and
respectively the attorney for the 94 owners of FCCA. As a
proxy holder and as a potential candidate for the upcoming
Board Election, I have reviewed the bylaws extensively and
do not see the following information.
Does the election have to be won by majority or plurality?
If there are 10 candidates running and they split the 94
votes, with nobody receiving a majority of 48 votes, does
the top vote-getter win the Presidency or is there a run-off
between the top two finishers like in other elections? If
the top vote-getter receives 12 votes and the other 9 split
the remaining 82 votes with each getting less than 12, would
the person receiving ONLY 12 votes win? This doesn't seem
right but a former board member told me that this is the way
they have done it in the past.
I am awaiting your IMMEDIATE reply as nominations have to be
submitted ASAP, due to the cut-off date of 3/26/06.
Your confidentiality is expected in this request and answer.
Sincerely,
Lenny Vasbinder
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HIS REPLY:
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Date: 03/20/2006
To: Lenny Vasbinder
Dear Mr. Vasbinder-
As you have pointed out below, I am an attorney for the FCCA. I represent the FCCA in its capacity as a corporation, whose shareholders are the individual unit owners. I do not represent any of the various 94 unit owners in their individual capacities. In accordance with the By-laws of the FCCA, the business affairs of the FCCA are managed by the Board of Directors. As I have not been engaged by the Board of Directors to undertake the work you have requested below, I am without power to do so. I apologize for the fact that I cannot be of service in this regard, and can only advise you to seek the advise of your own legal counsel should you deem it necessary.
Sincerely,
Malcolm D. Meyer
Adams and Reese LLP
4500 One Shell Square
New Orleans, Louisiana 70139
Tel. (504) 585-0426
Fax (504) 566-0210
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THE ABOVE REPLY CLEARLY INDICATES THAT THIS ATTORNEY DID NOT GIVE ME ANY ADVICE THAT HE COULD POSSIBLY BILL ME FOR AND FURTHER, THAT HE KNEW THAT I WAS IN NO WAY WORKING FOR OR WITH FCCA SO HE SHOULD NOT BILL FCCA FOR MY EMAIL EITHER. NOW... IF HE DID BILL FCCA FOR MY EMAIL AND HIS REPLY, THEN HE IS ILLEGALLY AND FRAUDULENTLY BILLING HIS CLIENTS. IF HE SENT THIS BILL THROUGH THE MAIL, THEN HE COMMITTED MAIL FRAUD. I PLAN TO CONTACT THE U.S.P.S. FOR THEM TO INVESTIGATE THIS POTENTIAL CASE OF MAIL FRAUD, IF HE ACTUALLY DID BILL FCCA FOR MY COMMUNICATIONS WITH HIM. FURTHER, SINCE HE TOLD FCCA ABOUT MY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL LEGAL CONTACT WITH HIM, HE MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF ONE OR MORE OF THE CODE OF ETHICS AND I WILL BE CONTACTING THE LOUISIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION DISCIPLINARY BOARD AT
http://www.lsba.org/Consumer_Services/complaints.html
IF HE DID NOT BILL FCCA, THEN THIS IS FURTHER PROOF THAT CHET HINGLE AND "CHET'S BOARD" ARE LYING TO EVERYONE ONCE AGAIN AND NOW THEY WOULD BE ILLEGALLY AND FRAUDULENTLY BILLING ME... EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE NO LEGAL RIGHT TO DO SO. FURTHER, IT PROVES THAT CHET HINGLE IS NOT A PROFESSIONAL MANAGER AS HE CLAIMS TO BE. WOULD A PROFESSIONAL MANAGER DO THE THINGS HE HAS DONE OVER THE PAST EIGHT MONTHS AND CONTINUES TO DO TODAY???
WHEN THEY DO THESE THINGS... OR TRY TO DO THESE THINGS... TO YOU AND I, IT FORCES US TO TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS... WHICH THEN COSTS EACH OF THE OWNERS MONEY. IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT CHET HINGLE DOING WITH YOUR MONEY?????
"CHET'S BOARD" HAS ALREADY VIOLATED MANY OWNERS RIGHTS PURSUANT TO THE FCCA BYLAWS AND STATE AND FEDERAL LAW OVER THE PAST EIGHT MONTHS AND THEY VIOLATED THE BYLAWS ONCE AGAIN BY REFUSING TO ALLOW ME MY LEGAL AND LEGITIMATE ACCESS TO THE BOOKS, RECORDS AND FINANCIAL REPORTS AS A LEGAL MORTGAGEE.
I PUT MY LAWSUIT AGAINST JAMES WILLIAMS, DON GAUTHREAUX AND CHESTER A. HINGLE, JR., ON THE BACK BURNER TO GIVE EILEEN GAREY A CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT CHET HINGLE BUT SINCE IT APPEARS THAT CHET IS STILL ABLE TO DO WHATEVER HE WANTS WITH IMPUNITY FROM THE BOARD, I WILL PROCEED WITH MY LAWSUIT AGAINST THE TWO BOARD MEMBERS OVERSEEING CHET HINGLE FOR THE PAST EIGHT MONTHS FOR THEIR WILLFUL ACTS AND BAD FAITH IN VIOLATION OF THE BYLAWS.
I am sending a copy of this newsletter to Malcolm Meyer, Jr. so I hope he doesn't try to bill FCC for this too. :-D
I know that Eileen Garey, the President of FCCA is on my email list so this should at least make her aware of yet another of Chet's unprofessional and potentially illegal and fraudulent acts.
NOW... ONTO EVEN MORE WASTE OF YOUR MONEY AND CHET'S IGNORANCE REARING IT'S UGLY HEAD AGAIN!!!!
As you have read over the past eight months, there were numerous broken out and blown out windows affecting dozens of the condos at FCC.
In standard construction procedures, you put up the frame, then the roof, walls and windows before you start doing sheetrock and interior work. So Chet did start off on the right foot with the roofs.. which due to Chet's cursing out the contractor, they walked off the job leaving the roofs leaking and unfinished but at least he started off right.
Unfortunately, this is where Chet started making all kinds of STUPID decisions affecting FCC. He tried to hide hundreds of thousands of dollars from the victims, he gave the victims an inadequate advance to get their units completed and HE FAILED TO HIRE ANYONE TO FIX ANY OF THE BROKEN OUT WINDOWS UNTIL JUST RECENTLY... EIGHT MONTHS LATER.
Unfortunately, he hired a company to just replace broken glass which only covers a fraction of the broken and blown out windows... many of which had broken and discarded window frames. The glass company, either on their own or under Chet's direction, proceeded to put pieces of glass in places where there should have been sliding frames replaced. They used clear silicone caulking and basically just caulked the large pieces of glass into the track areas. So now, these owners cannot open their windows since the sliding part is now caulked in place.
Instead of repairing them properly the first time, Chet Hingle will now have to WASTE MORE OF YOUR MONEY to hire a window contractor to pull out the shoddily repaired windows and replace the windows correctly.
This section now segues into an incident where Chet "went off" on someone today.
CHET SHOWS HIS RUDE, CRUDE AND OBNOXIOUS WAYS ONCE AGAIN!!!!!
One owner, Stacey Allesandro, #93, who has had a piece of plywood over her front living room window for the past eight months decided to proceed with replacing the blown out window frame with a new replacement window since she was unable to find a replacement frame for the half of the window that was blown out and broken.
She purchased the replacement window today and parked in the parking lot. Three other residents of FCC were there to help her bring the replacement window up the stairs to her unit. While unloading the window from the truck in the parking lot, Chet Hingle approached this owner to ask her what she was doing. She advised Chet and he rudely proceeded to tell her that the Board will not pay for her replacement window. She told Chet that this matter was between her and the Board and that she has waited nearly nine months for the window to be repaired. Chet told her they had hired someone to fix the windows so Stacey asked Chet when would it be repaired? Chet said he could not give her an answer and then got really rude and told her "SIX MONTHS!!!". If Chet would have given her a reasonable answer, she was prepared to return the window but she is not going to wait, nor should she have to wait "SIX MONTHS!!!"
Chet was rude, obnoxious, unprofessional and vulgar to this lady in the presence of three other residents and I have spoken to some of them and they confirm this incident as reported.
I know that I reported several weeks ago that Windows World in Kenner was hired to replace these windows that suffer from more than just a broken pane of glass.
WHY HASN'T CHET OR THE BOARD EVER TOLD ANYONE ABOUT THESE PLANS OR GIVEN THE OWNERS ANY KIND OF TIMELINE FOR REPAIRS???? IF THEY WOULD START DOING THEIR JOBS OF COMMUNICATING WITH THE HURRICANE VICTIMS, THE VICTIMS WOULD BE BETTER ABLE TO PLAN THEIR OWN REPAIRS AND MOVE BACK INTO THEIR UNITS.
Please, please, Eileen, come and take control of the out-of-control manager that you have running Fountain Court Condominiums.
Until next time... let "The Fountain Of Information" flow!!!!!
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