Two documents landed in the CCHAL mailbox this week. NOTE what the court has to say about the behavior and the testimony given by the board president, who was sued personally by Ridley and Shen. Lobbying for a special department to “oversee” homeowner association disputes isn’t a new idea. The California Law Revision Commission…
Today – Martin Luther King Day – is a good day to celebrate the laws protecting association homeowners from discrimination. Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968 after Dr. King was assassinated. Getting those laws and regulations in place hasn’t been easy but they DO exist now. California law – the Unruh Civil Rights…
Las Vegas doesn’t have the monopoly on homeowner association fraud. Unscrupulous people can also get themselves on California boards in order to embezzle HOA bank accounts and engage in self-dealing. Or so alleges the California Attorney General and a Los Angeles County grand jury, which charged that board president Joseph Orlando Both the Las Vegas…
CCHAL would like your opinion about the presidential pardon of a HOA racketeer. Among the 1500 people President Biden pardoned in December was Leon Benzer, ringleader in the scheme that defrauded Las Vegas homeowners of about $58 million dollars. He was to serve 15+ years in federal prison – instead he is to serve about…
Friends of CCHAL reported having trouble yesterday making their end-of-year donation and becoming Contributing Members so we are re-sending the links. As promised, model small claims suits are available on the website FOR FREE until end of Sunday January 5. These are suits filed by homeowners who used small claims court successfully to challenge elections and…
The North Pole give us more than Santa Claus. It gives u the spectacle of the Northern Lights, a vision of beauty to contemplate from our tiny vantage point in a homeowner association on planet Earth. The shimmering lights are an awesome reminder that there are powers at work beyond our small private worlds. Let’s turn our…
Today is GIVING TUESDAY, the GIVE BACK DAY started by the United Nations Foundation and the 92nd street “Y” in New York. The Center for California Homeowner Association Law – the advocate the homeowners! — asks you to join the GIVING TUESDAY campaign by donating to CCHAL today so that we can continue our work…
Homeowners have a LAST CHANCE to stop two bills hurting their wallets and their voting rights. These bills are now on the Governor’s desk — will he SIGN or VETO? How to get your NO messge to Governor Newsom? For more background on SB900 and AB2159 see CCHAL website and Facebook pages https://calhomelaw.org/2024-legislation/ Do forward this NewsBrief…
Try and hang onto your checkbook. Sacramento lawmakers have voted YES to giving a SINGLE board director the power to levy emergency assessments based on unspecified “health and safety hazards.” The chief architect of the bill is the Community Association Institute (CAI). Monday’s vote was 74 “yes” and 5 abstentions by Cervantes, Essayli, Muratsuchi, Ortega,…
Get out your checkbook. SB900 is the legislation requiring homeowners to MAINTAIN AND REPAIR ALL UTILITY LINES coming into the subdivision. Financing can be done through EMERGENCY ASSESSMENTS, which You thought SB900 was bad before? Take a look at it now. The bill was just amended on the Assembly floor to let ONE board director…