The Privatopia Papers

FBI: Mortgage Fraud Is Rampant in U.S. Fraud is running rampant in the nation's mortgage industry, with nearly three times as many r...

sacbee.com -- Politics -- Panel eyes oversight of housing groups Here's the Sacramento Bee's writeup on the CLRC recommendations f...

California Law Revision Commission recommends creation of Common Interest Developmetn Bureau in Department of Consumer Affairs This is a s...

thedesertsun.com |Blind residents want pet rules amended for guide dogs-- Couple, home association go to court over dog droppings You'...

AB 2598 Assembly Bill - ENROLLED So, the big foreclosure bill has been enrolled. But I heard a rumor yesterday. A California journalist ...

Greta Grab-o!--New York Observer Lifestyles of Fox News Rich and Famous in Condoland, Part Deux... First it was Geraldo, who is already PO...

Geraldo sues his housing development -- Concord Monitor Online HACKENSACK, N.J. -Geraldo Rivera is suing the co-op board of the housing...

AB 2598 Assembly Bill - Status The Steinberg bill is about to become law. The Assembly has concurred in the Senate amendments, and it has...

Missoulian: Law school faculty consider challenging Natelson ruling I have reported on this before. Bob Natelson has written on property ...

ABC7Chicago.com: Mayor outlines elaborate camera network for city Hello, surveillance society. What I find so interesting here is that ma...

Disabled boy wins right to front door This one qualifies as a world-class and well-deserved legal spanking of a condo association by an ad...

UCLA Anderson School of Management | Media | UCLA Anderson Forecast Warns of Possible Recession in 2005 or 2006 for the US Economy ...and ...

L.A. Daily News:Illiteracy shockingly high in L.A. Half of workers unable to read Continued immigration and a stubborn high school dropout...

Homeowners feeling trapped Fred Pilot is on a roll with biblical plague stories. First rats, then poverty, and now there is a fungus amon...

Levitt tried for rules but failed (phillyBurbs.com) William Levitt tried his best. But this renowned builder who so carefully sculpted ...

Trouble in paradise (phillyBurbs.com) Two from the Philadelphia suburbs: On the surface, Ivygreene Run is like many neatly ironed communi...

Board member: Know your rights (phillyBurbs.com) He's been on the board for nearly three years and Bob Gore still wonders about the wa...

Little Pink Houses... Tired of living in a gray house among dozens of other gray houses, Debra Cullom painted her family's Leawood, Ka...

Poverty in the Suburbs Yesterday it was rats. Today it's poverty. Fred may be right after all. Check out this article in The Nation...

Las Vegas SUN: Rats haunt residents of upscale community Fred Pilot think this may be evidence of a Biblical curse being visited on HOAs. ...