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...

ALTACITIES ®, an acronym for “ALTERNATE CITIES,” is the web moniker for the neighborhood of sites, blogs and locations created and managed by @ ALTALOMAN , in reference to our first web journals and blogging activity when residents of Alta Loma in Southern California. In 2011, we moved but these  ALTACITIES ® remain in the form of common interest developments ▶ http://flip.it/VQOxZn  on Flipboard The SocialCurrentSee found on this site deals largely with common interest developments, aka homeowner associations or HOAs, now the dominant housing development type in California and much of the rest of the nation.  For the numbers, see this DATA . ▶ Many of the sources archived and flipped here are found in my TWITTER feed and searches like the archive found below. ▶ Whether one owns a townhouse, raw land in a subdivision, a gated-community home, a shack in zoned jungle, or part stake in a condominium complex the majority of people who live there are often n...

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." https://t.co/N6NY0CLvY9 via @BrainyQuote — Mike Foxworth (@ALTALOMAN) April 27, 2017 Nobody buys a home, much less buys into a homeowner's association, with the expectation that the home will one day be destroyed by a natural or man-made disaster. But that reality is real world to thousands in the Smoky Mountain resort of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. ▶ SEE STORY .  Perhaps this story is real for you or may become so one day. What the Gatlinburg story explains well is that homeowners in HOAs may only escape the obligation to pay HOA obligations when they sell the property and transfer title to someone else. Related Reading Gatlinburg rebuilding months after deadly fire Preparing for the Future Using Lessons From Hurricane Sandy Drawing on Firsthand Experience to Depict the Horrors of Hurricane Katrina The journey to earthquake preparation, awareness https://goo.gl/jP...

Why Condo Associations Are Sweating After A Judge’s Ruling https://t.co/pjXvHKfAxZ #HOA — Ward Lucas (@Ward_Lucas) April 17, 2017 Hawaiian Islands investigative reporter and columnist  IAN LIND reports:  “ It’s probably going to take years to unravel the legal and financial uncertainty now facing condominium associations and law firms that used nonjudicial foreclosures — private sales without supervision by courts — to collect unpaid maintenance fees or other assessments prior to 2012. ” Neighbors at War! tells about the growing crisis in the modern HOA movement and lays out one of the only strategies to stop the coming collapse of the covenant-controlled neighborhood. Your freedom really is at risk! Your personal wealth is at risk. Your Constitutional rights are being secretly shredded! And it’s all legal. http://canswerist.com

Petition by iPetitions ▶ This LINK takes readers to a PETITION location regarding an urgent TRILOGY GLEN IVY matter: The long-neglect repairs for the common interest area lakes, specifically Lake#16, in our community. If you live in TGI , please sign the petition. What, when, how to petition HOA board for a special meeting? ▶ ALTACITIES ▶ https://t.co/HeZ7p1juoT — Mike Foxworth (@ALTALOMAN) March 1, 2017 * DSL = Davis-Stirling Law for common interest developments (aka homeowner associations or HOAs) in California Sometimes, special meetings can't be avoided for common interest developments, those residential communities that function as “private governments,” as opposed to real civil and civic authorities like cities and states. Truly, that’s why this blogger calls them ALTACITIES .  Typically, such meetings are called to cover a controversial issue.  Often, homeowners seek to vent and resolve an issue about a board action or lack of ac...

WHAT is an HOA WATCHDOG? ▶   Do they really exist? Alta ♥ CITIES ▶  http://flip.it/B0Imjt ▶ via @ flipboard ALTACITIES ®  CANSWERIST ® blogs here and archives for  SocialCurrentSee ® Mobile on phones, tablets, desktops, laptops canswerist.com * = estimated residents of California common interest developments (aka HOAs)▶   SOURCE Readership of newspapers is clearly declining. Print journalism business is dying.  No wonder, then, that journalistic coverage of common interest developments (aka HOAs) is virtually non-existent.  Web and social media sources like blogs , Twitter , and YouTube offer some coverage of HOA subjects  with a somewhat effective investigative (watchdog) slant. This blog as well as our SocialCurrentSee endeavor to archive some of this content. With some 9 million California residents living in HOAs, this may be the largest population in the state without free press coverage of...

​ WHO▶ Is the source for ALTACITIES ®? The microblogger @  altaloman  creates and curates this domain and compiles content for the Flipboard site by the same name. This is a place where  ALTACITIES  links, amplifies, and archives selected web content dealing with #HOAs, #CIDs, #POAs, #homeowner, #associations and a variety of other hashtag (#) subjects related to the common interest developments... ~ post compiled and archived by CANSWERIST for SocialCurrentSee ▶  ALTACITIES  ®, an acronym for " ALTERNATE CITIES ", is the web moniker for the neighborhood of sites, blogs and locations created and managed by @  altaloman , in reference to our first web journals and blogging activity when residents of Alta Loma in Southern California. In 2011, we moved but these  ALTACITIES  ® remain in the form of common interest developments ▶ http://flip.it/VQOxZn WHAT▶ Is aggregation? (1) The formation of a number of things into a clus...