The Privatopia Papers

Police: Conn. man stole flag, put up hippo toy WATERBURY, Conn. – Call it the case of the flying hippo. Connecticut police said a man stole...

Ozone layer 'is no longer disappearing and will return to full strength by 2048' | Mail Online " The ozone layer is no longer d...

Debris is strewn across the 58-unit complex along the north fork of the New River. The doors and windows have been stripped away. Vandals h...

Here's a story of a city council election out of Isleton, California, population 820, that might just as easily been about an HOA electi...

Mailbox battle in Chesterfield's Brandermill brings protest Day by day, more of the yellow boxes are popping up. In fact, one more for...

Rule breakers, beware: New law gives homeowners' associations more muscle - Home & Garden - MiamiHerald.com Fred Pilot sent this lin...

Homeowner's Association Uses Chopper To Find Violations - Local 2 Investigates News Story - KPRC Houston I'm posting this because an...

Big Brother is searching you - Computerworld "The town of Riverhead on Long Island used Google Earth to search all back yards in the t...

FT.com / US / Economy & Fed - US state steps in to meet city’s debt cost The state of Pennsylvania has stepped in to help its capital ci...

SIDE STREETS: HOA acting squirrelly at Lexington Park and everyone appears to be nuts It sounded too wild to be true: A woman claimed her e...

FOXNews.com - Cities Increasingly Turn to 'Trash Police' to Enforce Recycling Laws In a growing number of cities across the U.S., lo...

Cars on blocks. Knee-deep grass. Going to seed. Around a neglected above-ground pool. In the front yard. Chartreuse-and-fuchsia repainting ...

Subdivision residents appeal for service they didn't get Meredith Baker was happy and excited on the day in June when she and her famil...

Financial crisis hits condo associations Amy Hoak's Home Economics - MarketWatch : "The current problems only exacerbate what's...

CONSUMER FINANCE: Condo Owners Trade Lawn Mowers For Spread Sheets - WSJ.com This McKenzie guy is spouting off again.

Paying the tax man when Privatopia craters The crippled Las Vegas housing market has triggered a legal battle pitting investors buying fore...

Questions raised about tombstone removal from small historic cemetery in Holmdel | APP.com | Asbury Park Press : "'The tombstones o...

FloriDUH: HOA charging $600 for a mailbox Now the association is trying to turn the neglected neighborhood around by charging fees to new b...

Do homeowner regulations go too far? | StarNewsOnline.com : "New Hanover County Fire Marshal Matt Davis said investigators don't kn...

Bladder Lane, Bent Street and Butt Hole Road – the street names that reached the end of the road - Telegraph : "Dozens of councils acro...