The Privatopia Papers

You've paid your HOA assessments yet the common areas are unmaintained and the pool is closed, having turned into urban pond that's ...

THE KANGAROO STAYS! | Weird News - Y100 - Miami's Hit Music Station A local family has won a battle with their HOA over an unusual pet. ...

Capitol Alert: Housing meltdown dropped California's home ownership rate The housing industry meltdown in California sharply reversed a...

Condo Complex Walls Collapse In January, Still Not Fixed - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Gaping holes in walls, sunligh...

Stockton's options nearly all bad - Bee Editorials - Modbee.com "Every local elected official should be paying close attentio...

Calculated Risk: New Home Sales: 2011 Still the Worst Year, "Distressing Gap" remains very wide "Even with the upward revisio...

Rocklin Considering Banning Residents From Smoking Outside Their Own Homes « CBS Sacramento ROCKLIN (CBS13) – A Rocklin resident has asked t...

Wyoming House advances doomsday bill "CHEYENNE — State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch a study into what Wyo...

Foreclosure settlement a failure of law, a triumph for bank attorneys - The Washington Post We never want to see an innocent party “accident...

The "robo-signing" settlement won’t help homeowners, and it doesn’t hurt the banks. - Slate Magazine The main motivation behind th...

Insider Says Wells Fargo’s Independent Foreclosure Review for OCC is “a Sham” - Mandelman Matters " “I was hired as one of those “Inde...

Case shines light on how much power private security has when policing neighborhoods - chicagotribune.com "It's a massive, ad hoc ...

Man admits embezzling from Wisconsin, other homeowner groups - TODAY'S TMJ4 Palmer owned and operated Home Owner Association Services, w...

Courts order demolition of $1.1 million Macomb County mansion built too close to property line | Detroit Free Press | freep.com The Michigan...

Foreclosure abuse rampant across U.S., experts say | Reuters A report this week showing rampant foreclosure abuse in San Francisco reflects...

Condo Relief -- Extension of the Florida Distressed Condominium Relief Act ? | The National Law Review See my post below below for the refer...

Suburbs May be Losing Their Luster to Home Buyers - Yahoo! Finance With gas prices hitting record highs the past few years, long commutes i...

Arizona Senators debate HOA legal status « HOA Constitutional Government Take a look at this remarkable post by George Staropoli, and the ev...

H 319 -- REPRESENTATIVE GEORGE MORAITIS MALARKEY " To be very honest I have barely ever seen more malarkey than the excuses Repre...

How Citibank Dumped Lousy Mortgages on the Government - ProPublica "Citigroup agreed yesterday to pay $158 million to settle a lawsuit ...