Creekside Golf Club owners sue homeowners association overspending   ★   POSTCARD What does the average California solar installation cost? ▶ POWTOON  ▶   https://goo.gl/GonhXy ▶Creekside Golf Club owners sue homeowners association overspending ★ Statesman Journal ▶ ALTACITIES Flip ▶ https://goo.gl/WqbsvB ▶ Creekside Golf Club's owners have asked a judge to remove the board of an adjacent homeowners association and put the HOA into receivership. It's the latest volley in a two-year legal battle that will decide whether the club's owners, developers Larry Tokarski and Terry Kelly, can close the South ... ▶ Police Bust Criminal Operation Run out of Gated Community ★ kmir.com ▶ ALTACITIES Flip ▶ https://goo.gl/iGwQqT ▶ “They were coming and going at very odd hours of the night ... I had suspected ... perhaps they were selling drugs out of the house,” says a woman who also did not want to be identified. Many reported what they saw...

‘Solar eclipse’ for California HOAs ★ AB-634 What does the average California solar installation cost? SLIDESHOW ▶ https://goo.gl/njrdem ▶ In CA, the total average cost of an installed residential solar (PV) system is about $16,950 for a four-kilowatt system, the average size of a residential installation. But since we are among 182 owners in the unique Cobblestone Canyon (condos) of Trilogy Glen Ivy, it stands to reason the average-capacity system would not meet our needs here. But even if it did and we could reasonably move through the HOA approval hurdles (see attached report), the amortization of such a system seems well beyond reach. Let’s assume a solar system could drop our monthly bills to zero. For 2017, our monthly SCE bills averaged $58.30, or 644.21 for the year. My simple math calculation means it would take 26 years to amortize a $16,950 solar system.   Simply observing that this idea is not in the cards at this time even th...

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* SCS =  SocialCurrentSee ▶  http://socialcurrentsee.com Flip②▶ FLIPBOARD FRIDAY ▶ in association with  ALTACITIES , aka @ALTALOMAN ▶ Blogs, sites, and media commentary by a cancer survivor since 2006 ▶ archives released Monday-Friday via  NUZZEL  and  SocialCurrentSee ® on FLIPBOARD http://nuzzel.com/ALTALOMAN Subscribe to my Newsletter Read Mike Foxworth's Newsletter on Nuzzel. Fri, Jan 12, 2018 Thr, Jan 11, 2018 Wed, Jan 10, 2018 Tue, Jan 09, 2018 Mon, Jan 8, 2018 https://goo.gl/5fz8JD When you track, follow and archive news and information about ALTACITIES, the moniker that is uncommonly applied to common interest developments (CIDs), property owner associations (POAs), and homeowner associations (HOAs), you will mostly find resources from within the HOA industry, the professional groups of HOA managers, the management companies, and the attorney sites that serve the industry. Lesser-known, are so...

http://bit.ly/2iftRpE As we search further into the mysteries of #EQI and the main purveyor of earthquake insurance in the Golden State and land of quakes, we come up with▶ Given what we have already discovered and revealed in two previous posts on this blog, we now turn some attention to the process of obtaining a 2017 #EQI quote at the #CEA site▶ The reality of this educational exercise is that the search is basically useless to me as a purchase opportunity for the reasons that I will explain below▶ http://bit.ly/2iftRpE We are homeowners in a common interest development, aka homeowners association or HOA, but also residents of a condominium in a social benefit area (SBA) for that Inland Empire, Southern California community▶ While the #CEA site offers estimates on condo #EQI, the caveats at the site advise that customers must connect with one of their 24 licensed agent brokers (those the CEA calls "participating insurers" ▶http://bit.ly/2gbb8...

Search▶ HOA Lawyers Bingo, bango, bongo or just BING Twitter Facebook Google Avvo.com While it's true that you find more than a million links for the topic above at the sites searched, you may not need to go any further than your neighborhood HOA to understand the powerful link between your association and the legal counsel they have hired▶ It also won't take you long to realize that the very same legal counsel is the primary roadblock to real transparency within your association, or at least that is the observation of this HOA citizen journalist. https://goo.gl/G4uGDn If you read the a series of search results and archive on topic (# transparency ), the question of how much or how little transparency exists in the typical common interest development (aka HOA) is answered only by personal experience ▶ As for our Inland Empire, Southern California HOA, the # transparency  experience is uneven, at best ▶  In California, the complicated Davis-Stir...