The Privatopia Papers

Veterans condemn El-Alamein golf resort plan | International News | News | Telegraph Sometimes I feel like there are real estate developers ...

Criticism of boring suburban lifestyle is nearly timeless | Chicago Tribune Interesting historical essay...

FCC proposes rule limiting HOA power Nancy Levy sent this link. I'm going to follow up to see which "associations" have been ...

Condo Redondo! From Fred Pilot: The Redondo Beach rezoning initiative is the product of citizens who want to protect our quality and life an...

With five private jets, Travolta still lectures on global warming | Showbiz | This is London But he has a great idea! Space travel and dome...

newsobserver.com | Autism can't bend subdivision rules: covenants anger parents who need fences to protect kids Nancy Levy sent this alo...

China's real estate market up 69 percent in 2006: report Now, that's what I call a real estate boom. And this report just covers com...

China's real estate market up 69 percent in 2006: report Now, that's what I call a real estate boom. And this report just covers com...

No end in sight for quiet community riven by feud - New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz You think HOA feuds are bad? Try this. And check out the...

KOTV.com -Living Next Door To 'Mister Ed' A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can build a subdivision about a horse...

Coulee News -A messy situation: Flooding along private road raises questions Fred Pilot sent this article about the joys of private streets:...

Boing Boing: Cavalcade of homeowner holdouts Here is a Mystery Reader post on "nail houses," which means houses that remain behind...

Boing Boing: Slideshow for hellish "Haven of Contentment" Mystery Reader swoops in with this blast from the past that she labels, ...

Governance of Property Owners Associations: Statement of Rights Here'a a corrected link to Don Nordeen's Statement of Rights.

Fed Faulted For Inaction On Mortgages - washingtonpost.com On the foreclosure and subprime lender front, Nancy Levy sent this report on Demo...

Governance of Property Owners Associations: October 2006 Don Nordeen has a Statement of Rights for CID owners that is worth taking a look at...

Foreclosures Force Suburbs to Fight Blight - New York Times Nancy Levy sends this story with a dateline in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a very nice...

Firm Under Scrutiny to Be Sold - washingtonpost.com Nancy Levy sends this example of an HOA management company in trouble. But, hey, it...

Quad City Foreclosures Here is a slice of life from Rock Island, IL, where you can see what is going on with foreclosures in middle America....

A new approach to NIMBYism Fred Pilot sent this along with the heading, "They shoot condos, don't they?" TOKYO (Reuters) - A J...