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Judge clears Madison resident | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger I've been giving talks about this bizarre ordinance. Madison, MS...

Maryland law to deal with defunct associations Fred Pilot sent this. Just watch. This will become a common situation in the years to come. ...

Entire Neighborhood Faces Foreclosure Over Association Fees - Video - WFTV Orlando : "Unless They Pay, By The End Of The Month, They Co...

Reason Magazine - The Death of Main Street : "Big businesses know that a heavy regulatory burden is the best way to make sure small- an...

KSTP.com - Record home foreclosures cause snow removal problems The snow brings a new problem with the high number of foreclosures in the Tw...

Couple asked to take down American flag - Local & State News - Tampa Bay's 10 - tampabays10.com : "The flag, flies from a 16-fo...

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly: Owners can't block costly condominium assessment : "Unit owners in a condominium complex could not ba...

San Mateo Daily News: Pinched by fee hikes, condominium owners call for help Fred Pilot sent this, which is yet another example of the loomi...

9NEWS - Article - HOA says mother of fallen soldier has to take down flag Mike Riordan sent this link. AURORA - Mary Sims lives at the Stra...

Empty Houses Home to Crime As Loans Fail: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance We need a TV series on the mortgage meltdown. Episode One: Zombies...

Colorado Town Wants To Ban Red And Green Lights : Another signpost on the road to American cities becoming exactly like HOAs: "The town...

Income gap among black, white families up - Yahoo! News "Incomes among black men have actually declined in the past three decades, whe...

Miami condo at ground zero in mortgage fraud | Reuters Here is a dubious distinction. "...the 643-unit condo known as the Club at Bric...

New York mulls $1,000 fine for feeding pigeons - Yahoo! News When Hemingway was living in Paris he used to shoot pigeons for dinner. Has an...

Woman Asks to Keep Horse in Apartment Good thing for the neighbors that she didn't get emotionally attached to an elephant.

Increases in new house prices slow down : "The housing-starts report showed that 79 per cent of all new Vancouver housing starts to the...

Fla. Companies Forbidding Smoking In Private Lives - Orlando News Story - WKMG Orlando What next? Can't ride a motorcyle? I wonder what...

School board to ignore state moment-of-silence law -- chicagotribune.com Of course they are ignoring it. Everybody knows it is impossible to...

57% - Declining Confidence in Political Wisdom of Americans - Yahoo! News So it has finally come to this: the majority of Americans now has ...

Newswire / Press Release: Hilton is Subject of Book Project Revealing the Other Side of Hotel-condo Ownership - Books/Publishing/Newspapers ...