Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Las Vegas SUN: Woman sues as homeowners association tries to sell her condo over unpaid fines
Here's another one of those "looks-like-foreclosure-abuse" cases that people in the industry keep telling us don't really happen. I don't know more about it than is in this article, and there may be another entirely different side to it, but read it for yourself and see what it looks like to you.

A woman has sued her homeowners association after receiving notice it planned to sell her condo -- which she owns free and clear -- for alleged nonpayment of $1,785 in fines.

Shaun Haydon and her attorney Orin Grossman will go before a Clark County District Court judge today and argue that her Henderson property should not be sold.

Haydon alleges that she was assessed more than $1,700 in fines because of broken lights and items left out on the back porch of the condo, in the 500 block of Sellers Place. Haydon rents out the 20-year-old condo that she bought in 1987 for $43,000 and that she said is now worth about $80,000.

She alleges that when she tried to pay the fines, the Summerfield Homeowners Association and its management company, American Family Real Estate Inc., refused to accept the payments.
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