The Privatopia Papers

"When a federal judge sentenced former Las Vegas construction boss Leon Benzer to nearly 16 years in prison in August, it marked a f...

 "He helped craft laws on which hundreds of condominium associations in Illinois are based but he is also a suspect in two murders. ...

DENVER - The owner of an Aurora-based community association management company voluntarily surrendered his license after there were complai...

"Poinciana Villages, with nearly 70,000 residents and 23,000 homes, would be one of the largest cities in Central Florida if it were a ...

"Former construction company boss Leon Benzer, the man behind the massive scheme to take over and defraud Las Vegas-area homeowners ass...

"A total of 43 defendants either pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial in what prosecutors say is the largest public corruption cas...

http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2015/11/24/police-bust-weekly-mahjong-game-played-by-elderly-women/ Local cops, having solved all the other crim...

"Has your homeowner association fined you for painting your house purple? Have you ignored requests to pay annual maintenance fees for...

Joel Kotkin shows that sprawl and the exurban lifestyle are as popular as ever. This means more new HOAs and condos, so the die-hards who th...

"More than 1 million New Jersey residents live in communities with homeowners associations. The top Republican in the state Senate sai...

"Pontiac  — A Bloomfield Township condominium association wants to foreclose on a property owned by legendary soul singer Aretha Frank...

" Has your homeowner association fined you for painting your house purple? Have you ignored requests to pay annual maintenance fees for...

Here we go again: "JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The home Mark Bryant purchased in 2006 is modest but he loves it. "I worked real hard f...

"The Holiday Forest subdivision in Concord has been fighting a 40-year battle to get all of the neighborhood’s roads paved." Ye...

"COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Long before the historic floods of the past week, crumbling roads, bridges and dams and aging drinking water sy...

It's that time of year again, when people decorate their homes in traditional fashion with simulated bloody torture victims wrapped in p...

The US media love to run any story from anti-government propagandists about anything a local government does wrong. But look how they ignore...

Trust fund baby and pseudo-populist charlatan Donald Trump is involved in lots of condo deals. Some say that he is no longer a real estate d...

I've been keeping up this blog since 2003, but this summer I went off the air for several months because of some events that absorbed a ...

Coming to a condo association near you, someday? http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/oct/09/living-steel-box-shipping-containers-future...