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Contributed by: Jan Jackson on 6/13/2008

Developers, lawyers, and homeowners association presidents and boards of directors "bad guys." Many of them, if not most, appear to be obsessed with power and money. That is, with wringing as much money out of We The People as they can, as fast as they can, and getting the power needed to do that.

When they succeed, they are the bane of any civilized society.

The following is a true story of a wealthy developer who apparently "went wrong" (became obsessed with power and money) years ago in California. He is now here in our state and is planning, with the help of his cabal, to turn some beautiful, pristine, rural land into just another commercial entity which will destroy the land, the social structure, and the financial stability of the homeowners who were living there long before he arrived on the scene.

The developer doesn't care about any of that, of course. What he cares about is increasing his wealth, and the power over others that his wealth gives him. Here's a quick history of one of his latest power-and-money-seeking plans.

Many years ago, the rural land was originally meant to be a simple residential development when it was purchased by some local developers. It was divided into 35-acre parcels with deed restrictions (now called homeowners association "covenants"). The housing development's original covenants described the development in words -- all true, at that time -- that would peak the interest of most people who wanted to move out of the city to the "country." That is, they just wanted to be able to build a small home (even a small cabin) in a quiet rural setting where they could enjoy beautiful views and, hopefully, neighbors who had the same societal (rural or "old-fashioned") values they had.

Not much happened in the development over the next 25 years or so, in terms of property buyers building homes in the development. Most of the parcel owners appeared to be land speculators who lived out of state, and older folks who had bought their parcels for their retirement years. One or two owners did build small homes on their parcels that were their permanent residences.

While many parcels of this housing development/homeowners association are, today, still raw land owned by individual purchasers, several parcels were recently purchased by buyers who then built large, million-dollar plus "structures" on them. Why, their long-established-there neighbors wondered, would they do that In the middle of a drastic downturn in an economy where foreclosures are running rampant. Then the neighbors became really puzzled when those brand new houses sat empty, most of the time. That is, nobody appeared to live in those houses. At least not very often, and then not the way one would expect normal homeowners to live in their homes.

Then the president of the homeowners association (who turned out to be the very wealthy California developer mentioned above) started talking seriously about changing the covenants to add one (or more) additional large and expensive rental structures on every 35-acre parcel. All of the recently built new "home" owners were and are instrumental in those talks.

Interesting, huh? Let's look more closely at this homeowners association. The President of the association is a very wealthy and (apparently) successful California developer who owns a very large house he built in the association, owns a couple more large houses in a nearby town as well as some kind of a lodge there, and is also a local public official there. The lawyer who represents this particular homeowners association (HOA) is a member of the nationally infamous, i.e., has a very bad reputation among thousands (if not millions) of HOA homeowners throughout the United States, lawyer-lobbyist group called the "Community Associations Institute" (CAI), a branch of which is in Denver, Colorado (there is, currently, an apparently shamelessly improper lawsuit being brought by California CAI lawyers against the owner/manager of the American Homeowners Resource Center ("AHRC") website which, for all intents and purposes, appears to have been brought solely to silence the three million voices of AHRC's owner and the homeowners who post there who complain about -- and rightly so -- the fraudulent practices of HOA presidents and lawyers, and HOA boards of directors). The board of directors who run this homeowners association is currently composed of what appears to be inherently unscrupulous people who are hard into power and money seeking in the homeowners association.

Where is this association located in Colorado? And what is the name of it? I'm not at liberty to say ... yet. But readers here can take comfort in the knowledge that there are those who have talked with people in authority in Colorado who are, as I write this, looking into the particulars of the sales of those recently purchased Colorado parcels, as well as the financial and other backgrounds of the parcel buyers, the association's president, its lawyer, and its board of directors. We Coloradans can only hope and pray that justice comes to that particular association before its entire rural community is totally destroyed -- ecologically and financially.

Power and money seeking developers, lawyers, and homeowners association presidents and boards of directors. They often are the destroyers of millions of acres of Colorado's breathtakingly beautiful countryside by turning them into wall-to-wall housing developments and condominium complexes. They also try to destroy entire rural communities of law-abiding, freedom-loving Americans whose only wish is to be left alone to live peacefully and quietly with other like-minded folks under a vibrant, well-functioning, Constitution-based government.

We shall see if this particular HOA developer/president, and this particular HOA lawyer, and this particular board of directors succeed in destroying this particular rural corner of nature's wondrous creations. Or if they will instead find themselves in a place which is devoid of vegetation from which they cannot escape, no matter how hard they try.

Stay tuned....


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Jan Jackson

Florissant , CO

Jan Jackson has posted 464 stories and 37 comments since joining on 9/14/2005. Jan Jackson 's average story rating is 4.49.
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