01-27-2017, 06:47 PM
"I stated my personal SOLUTION many pages ago: the subdivision needs to go into receivership with a Court appointed management company."
I totally understand the desire for oversight, but lets take a look at receivership for a minute.
HPP was just in receivership about 10 or 12 years ago. The mere fact that it is needed again shows that this solution is only temporary at best. Or, perhaps it had a hand in creating the current problems.
People are asking for the bylaws to be revised. The bylaws were completely revamped during the last receivership. They should be perfect, shouldn't they?
One of the changes made under receivership was to allow foreclosure for delinquent road maintenance fees. This is illegal. The 1983 class action judgment on the collection of mandatory fees for road maintenance specifically forbids foreclosure. The bonding company that provided the $12,000,000 loan required foreclosure to be in the bylaws before they would approve the loan. I cannot prove that this was the sole reason for changing this bylaw, but the loan was approved shortly after the change was made. Most people will simply pay up when threatened with foreclosure rather than challenge it and countersue. If you are lucky, this will hold true throughout the duration of the loan reimbursement and beyond. If not, the poo fan will go into high gear. The foundation for the loan that everybody seems to agree was a big mistake was laid during receivership. And that foundation is fraudulent.
My point is that even court appointed oversight doesn't work for cleaning things up. Class actions, arbitration, mediation, etc., etc., it's all been tried, and the mess just keeps getting bigger and bigger. The only thing that hasn't been tried yet is holding the county and state accountable for handing their buddies a sweetheart deal at our expense. And yes, I'm in Orchidland. The poo is just as deep on our side of the highway and it smells exactly the same. Other subdivisions are in the same cesspool as well. Our only chance is to set all of our other differences aside and work together toward this one goal. At least that is how I see it.
For good or bad, that's my rant for today.
I totally understand the desire for oversight, but lets take a look at receivership for a minute.
HPP was just in receivership about 10 or 12 years ago. The mere fact that it is needed again shows that this solution is only temporary at best. Or, perhaps it had a hand in creating the current problems.
People are asking for the bylaws to be revised. The bylaws were completely revamped during the last receivership. They should be perfect, shouldn't they?
One of the changes made under receivership was to allow foreclosure for delinquent road maintenance fees. This is illegal. The 1983 class action judgment on the collection of mandatory fees for road maintenance specifically forbids foreclosure. The bonding company that provided the $12,000,000 loan required foreclosure to be in the bylaws before they would approve the loan. I cannot prove that this was the sole reason for changing this bylaw, but the loan was approved shortly after the change was made. Most people will simply pay up when threatened with foreclosure rather than challenge it and countersue. If you are lucky, this will hold true throughout the duration of the loan reimbursement and beyond. If not, the poo fan will go into high gear. The foundation for the loan that everybody seems to agree was a big mistake was laid during receivership. And that foundation is fraudulent.
My point is that even court appointed oversight doesn't work for cleaning things up. Class actions, arbitration, mediation, etc., etc., it's all been tried, and the mess just keeps getting bigger and bigger. The only thing that hasn't been tried yet is holding the county and state accountable for handing their buddies a sweetheart deal at our expense. And yes, I'm in Orchidland. The poo is just as deep on our side of the highway and it smells exactly the same. Other subdivisions are in the same cesspool as well. Our only chance is to set all of our other differences aside and work together toward this one goal. At least that is how I see it.
For good or bad, that's my rant for today.