By Michele Lerner • Bankrate.com March 29, 2013 Highlights Your association’s problems could delay or halt the sale of your home. Lenders look at an association if its bank balance is paltry. Likewise, condo associations and HOAs need sufficient insurance. If you … More…
By Cindy George — March 27, 2013 Charles Babineaux, whose tug-of-war with his Harris County HOA was the subject of the Chronicle’s March 16 Houston Advocate story, learned this week that he can keep his security door. According to a letter from … More…
By Cindy George – March 15, 2013 — Houston Chronicle Burglars, be forewarned. You’ll hurt yourselves trying to break through the doors on Charles Babineaux’s house. In 2007, he was among the first homeowners in Brunswick Meadows – a subdivision … More…
February 9, 2013 $1,356,880 Awarded Homeowners; $616,678 for Attorney Fees Houston – Years of frustration and lawsuits finally ended Friday February 8, 2013, when a group of homeowners at The Landing Condominium in El Lago, Texas, won their case before … More…
By Jack Fink – February 4, 2013 Residents at the Sable Ridge Condominium complex say they’ll never forget the sound. Michael Issa says the eight gunshots that rang out Monday morning scared him. “I just know I heard a whole … More…
By: Melissa Foy – January 22, 2013 Wichita Falls police arrest the building manager for a local condominium and charge him with embezzling from homeowner association funds. Forty-eight year-old Benny Wayne Hopkins is charged with theft over $20,000 and is … More…
January 10, 2013 1:19 PM By John Suayan, Galveston Bureau GALVESTON – A Kemah homeowners association has filed suit over what it believes to be financial wrongdoing committed by one of its directors. In a lawsuit filed Jan. 7 in Galveston … More…
83 percent would support continued legislative efforts to oversee the activities of HOAs. HOUSTON — (November 2, 2012) — The Houston Association of REALTORS® (HAR) recently conducted a first-of-its-kind survey of HAR.com consumers to gauge public sentiment on legislative and policy … More…
Posted November 7, 2012 Story and photos BY JEFF PRINCE in News Bullets sliced into Tim and Becky Morton’s east Fort Worth home after a drive-by shooting in 2009. It was a terrifyingly close call — police dug bullets from the … More…
by John Pape · October 24, 2012 Katy – This is the second in a series of stories detailing allegations of misconduct on the part of some members of the Cinco Ranch Residential Property Association Board of Directors. After Cinco Ranch Residential … More…