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LAS VEGAS -- Tuesday, homeowners in a luxury high-rise on the Las Vegas Strip will decide the newest members of their HOA board. Though such elections don't normally make the news, this one raised eyebrows because of who's involved.

Last year, California developer Aaron Yashouafar was voted one of New York's 10 worst landlords. Just last month, Nevada regulators sanctioned him following allegations of missing millions from the Paradise Spa Homeowner's Association. Despite that action, sources say Yashouafar remains under investigation for his activities at the exclusive Sky Las Vegas condo complex.

Sky bills itself as the most desired address on Las Vegas Boulevard. It is a $325 million condo project marketed as an urban oasis by Yashouafar. Though he has made news nationwide, those reports are conspicuously absent from the press kit. Headlines like "New York's 10 Worst Landlords" must not appeal to luxury buyers.

"It's amazing that someone with his history has been able to just go from one deal to the next and keep pulling the wool over people's eyes," said Sky homeowner Brain Stone.

Brian Stone and Steve Plotkin both purchased investment properties at Sky in 2007, unaware until recently that Yashouafar retained control of the building through the property manager and the HOA.

"Four years after completion of the property, he's still there. And unfortunately, he was running things his way to his benefit and that cost us losses which are only now becoming public," said Plotkin.

Yashouafar, along with associates David Pourbaba and Homan Taghdiri, held a majority interest on the condo association's board of directors, despite delinquencies with their own HOA dues estimated at more than $1 million.

E-mails reveal an effort to remove the three earlier this year based on violations of the association's bylaws. Yet minutes from the March meeting show the three, who own some 80 units, refused to step down.
"The association is down to a small amount of cash in the bank. So when you've got that many units, homeowners dues not being paid, it puts a severe crimp in your cash flow," said Stone.

It is a scenario not unfamiliar to another Las Vegas condo complex -- Paradise Spa. Last month, the Nevada Real Estate Division sanctioned Yashouafar and Pouraba for multiple violations, including claims Yashouafar pocketed more than $800,000 in insurance proceeds from a fire at Paradise Spa.

As part of the settlement agreement, the two and their associates may not serve on any HOA boards in Nevada for three years. In compliance, Yashouafar and Pourbaba recently resigned from Sky Las Vegas. However sources say Taghiri, Yashouafar's corporate counsel, has not.

"We think the assets are there to make us whole. We're probably in better shape than the folks at the Spa because we do have capture assets," said Plotkin.

Recorder's records show the Sky HOA has liened the developer-owned properties and this week the homeowners will vote on a new board. Plotkin and Stone hope regime change will mean a new beginning for their luxury homes in the sky.

"We're optimistic we can get in and do the job that needs to be done that the developer refused to do," said Plotkin.

Sky HOA's attorney, along with Yashouafar, Pouraba and Taghiri did not respond to requests for comment. The new board's first order of business may well be a forensic audit of the property. Plotkin and Stone say it's unclear at this point whether funds have been misappropriated.

State and federal officials say they continue to investigate Yashouafar.

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SKY LAS VEGAS LAWSUIT UPDATE- We just  received an official confirmation that all of the 79 units at Sky Las Vegas that are owned by the developer, are going to have the power to their units cut off on April 3, 2011.  We were shown the actual stack of certified letters that were required to be sent to the unsuspecting tenants of the units.  We have covered this issue before in great detail and now that the Interim Executive Director is in place, the gift of fiscal oversight is now gone.  We are told that that the residents of this building have been paying monies to the developer Massoud Aaron Yashouafar or years, however the payments never seem to have made it to the Sky Las Vegas HOA. This is part of a series of articles that chronicilize the business dealings of Massoud Aaron Yashouafar from Coast to Coast.  Keep Reading.

This is an HSK exclusive that has uncovered a family who is seriously one of the worst economic parasites both on the court system and to the citizens of Los Angeles.

Just because you fork out millions of dollars on property, doesn’t mean you have the immediate right to move in — That is, if the property we’re talking about was once owned by Massoud Aaron Yashouafar. Meet Massoud Yashouafar. Here’s a man who has reportedly swindled a fortune from renters and homeowners across the nation, and now that he’s facing a financial crisis, he is fighting to keep his foreclosed Beverly Hills mansions.

They are located at 9439 Sunset Blvd., where he has family members who are non English speaking squatting the place in a dilapidated house living like peasants in the Alborz Mountains.

There are also the 910 Rexford Dr., and 580 Chalette Dr. properties. Massoud Yashouafar and his wife, Parinaz Yashouafar, live on the Rexford Dr. property while Solyman Yashouafar and Soheila Yashouafar live on the Chalette property. They were both set for trustee’s sale on March 2 and 3 by Pacific Western Bank but on the day before the sale, Massoud and Solyman transferred their houses to a Delaware real estate company named Sambria Realty, LLC. Sambria Realty LLC. was formed just one month prior on 01/31/2011.

They formed it just days before they went to Court to get a T.R.O. which they obtained then lost. This was their back up plan which has now moved forward into federal court. Sambria Realty, LLC then filed a Chapter 11 in the United States bankruptcy court. HSK is told the United States Trustee’s office is looking into whether this was a fraudulent bankruptcy as Massoud signed the petition and it is his company! What a scam! Jacky can’t believe these people.




Here is what HSK has further learned and believes. The problem Massoud Yashouafar has is that one of those high end homes has since been bought and paid for. Now, Yashouafar (who is well versed on the ins and outs of real estate law) is reportedly manipulating the system in order to buy time to pay his creditors and let his free loading extended family live there for free.

While 99% of the Persian Jewish community are some of the hardest working people in California, con artists like the Massoud Yashouafar and Ezri Namvar are pariah’s on what is one of Southern California’s hardest working communities. These economic terrorists prey on the weak and their own ethnic trust by their own community members.

Numerous Persians living in Beverly Hills were interviewed for this story but they don’t want to go on record because they are afraid the Yashouafars will sue them or call them to explain in Farsi. The goal of this piece is to simply let as many people know what is really go on with this little second rate Madoff. Persian residents of Beverly Hills are outraged as this gives them all a bad name and breeds prejudice against them.

The facts are as follows:

On January 13, 2011, a professional foreclosure business paid $5,800,000.00 in cash after winning the bid on Beverly Hills property located at 9439 Sunset Boulevard, formally owned by Massoud Yashouafar. Since there was debt in front of the $5.8M second, the total price the buyer paid was over $7.7M. This, after the home was foreclosed upon on December 13, 2010, and was publicly listed for sale beginning on January 6, 2011. Now, Massoud Yashouafar argues the sale of the home should be void because of frivolous formalities including who the Trustee was at the time of the sale, options other than foreclosure of the property were not explored for him, and the trustee failed to post notice of the sale. But the bottom line is this: the property was paid for, and Massoud Yashouafar is $33,000,000.000 in debt, that was against the property until the foreclosure sale.

But the 6,891 square foot, seven-bedroom, seven-bath, 30 year old dilapidated Sunset Boulevard home isn’t the only piece of property at the center of Yashouafar-related litigation’s. Not coincidentally, as stated above, the trustee sale of Yashouafar’s 910 Rexford Drive Beverly Hills mansion was continued from February 4, 2011 to February 24, 2011 – due to the Yashouafar’s going into another Court and asking for a delay. The hearing was held on February 23, 2011. No one can argue that here too, Yashouafar has manipulated the system to buy time to delay paying his creditors. The Yashouafars lost that hearing and the preliminary injunction was denied. As stated above, they then transferred the property into their own real estate company which they then filed a bankruptcy for.

The reason why these people are Little Madoff’s is because they borrowed $2M from an elderly Jewish man in New York named Sina Abselet. They never recorded the loan until it was behind two bank loans. He is now going to lose the $2M that was cross collaterized on the Chalette and Rexford properties. As they were going out on Chalette, Solyman somehow got Fereydoun Dayani to lend them a $1M in October of 2010. If this wasn’t good enough, they conned an invalid named Howard Abselet, Sina Abselet’s son, to give them $6M to be secured by the Sunset Blvd. property.

He was wiped out in the sale on January 13, 2011
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What is truly shocking is they enlisted their business partner and friend, Hamid Joseph Nourmand, the nephew of the elderly Sina Abselet and a well respected attorney in Beverly Hills, to arrange for Howard Abselet’s investment and represent him in the transaction. He also handled Sina’s as well. Obviously, the state bar is going to revoke his license when Howard Abselet’s attorneys are through with him but what is shocking is that HSK discovered that on August 14, 2002, for a sweetheart price of $2.6M, none other than Massoud Yashouafar sold Hamid Joseph Nourmand and Doris M. Nourmand, their house at 722 N. Bedford Dr. Doris Nourmand is a M.D. and a well received one as well. In addition, when HSK went to go by to interview them, they had a large armed security guard posted in front of their house. How many people have they screwed over to warrant this type of protection?

The Yashouafars presently have the following cases to show what a drain they are to the court system:
They have a lawsuit against Pacific Western to stop the foreclosure which the Court denied that request for their Chalette and Rexford properties.

They have a lawsuit against the buyer at the Sunset Blvd. property. Fortunately, on March 3, 2011, another judge granted a motion to expunge their lis pendens and denied their attempt to get a restraining order against further transferring the property.

They are defendants in a lawsuit in front of a third judge in the same courthouse in Santa Monica set for trial the first week of April where they are looking at a $20M judgment where an attachment has already been issued.

They have an in pro per bankruptcy, meaning they filed it without an attorney for their company Sambria Reality, LLC. Only problem is, companies can only appear in court through attorneys. Jacky knows his law, let me tell you.

All the while, Massoud and Parinaz Yashouafar’s house is lined with Bentleys, Ferraris, and other luxury motor vehicles. How disgusting can one family be? They are living off the Abselet’s $8,000,000.00, the Dayani’s $1,000,000.00, and the bank’s $9,000,000.00. Give Jacky one of those vehicles bought with other people’s money mane!

Massoud Yashouafar may be late in paying his dues, but he has never been late when it comes to collecting money from those who have rented property from him. In fact, his tenants have all contributed to the Milbank Real Estate tycoon’s lavish Beverly Hills lifestyle, while he compromised their quality of life. Now, the man who’s dubbed “One of New York’s Ten Worst Landlords” is a nationally credited slumlord who maximized his profit by drastically minimizing spending on property maintenance (if any), often in deteriorating neighborhoods, while leeching away the wealth of the poor who rent from him. Some of his rental properties have racked-up more than 500 unresolved violations, others have been condemned and several are (like his residential properties) being foreclosed upon.

When Yashouafar purchased nearly 20 Bronx, New York buildings back in 2006 (one year before buying his Sunset Boulevard residence), he promised his family-owned real estate development company Milwood Holding Corp. planned “revitalization would occur by infusing the capital necessary to improve the condition of the buildings.” That never happened. In fact the conditions were so bad — one couple with a new born baby, Luis Delatores and Erica LaGuerra, were forced to move from their top fifth floor unit inside one of the Bronx properties to a second floor unit after the leaking roof lead to the new mother’s fall down a set of soggy stairs, leaving her with an injured back. The new parents were also forced to travel across the city to shower at their in laws’ home because their shower was not working for several months. That’s a far cry from the sort of lifestyle Yashouafar has lived in Beverly Hills.

Tenants at another Yashouafar-owned Bronx property were forced to endure frigid winter temperatures inside their homes because both heat and hot water were absent from the building for six consecutive months. Those residents eventually took action in the form of a protest, where they displayed signs posted with “No Hot Water! No Heat!” and showcased rats which they caught inside of their units. In another desperate attempt to take action, residents of another Yashouafar-owned Bronx property contacted the press after living without a working elevator, forcing some elderly and disabled residents to face the daily challenge of climbing up several flights of stairs to get to their units daily. The countless cries for help by tenants eventually gained some attention, but Yashouafer himself never responded. One court-appointed receiver for ten of the foreclosed upon Bronx properties, Joe Cicciu, said “We go to some of those apartments and try to fix things, patch things up, to give people a chance to live in decent apartments. But for the people with the collapsing ceilings, we are trying to relocate them into vacant units. The problem is, most of the vacant units need a gut renovation! And we don’t have the dollars for that anymore.”

And while there was no money for Bronx repairs to be found — on the other side of the country, residents of a Yashouafar-owned Nevada property, Paradise Spa, are wondering why close to a million dollars in fire insurance money is missing.



85-year-old Iris Hokanson is one of those Paradise Spa residents. “I don’t know what to say about it except that there are a bunch of crooks in here,” says Hokanson. The elderly woman is still forking out monthly payments on her unit which was condemned by the state of the Nevada after fire ripped through her home, last January. “All the money that I’ve already paid and I still owe money, and I have nothing. And no place to move back in. And I don’t know what I’m going to do,” says Hokanson. According to public record, $842,871.84 in insurance money, meant to finance fixing the building, was collected and reportedly delivered to directly Massoud Yashoafar’s Los Angeles office. The problem is not one penny of that money was invested back into the fire torn building. “When we found out that most of the money is either gone or absconded with, I said this is unconscionable. This is the worst case of elder abuse I’ve ever seen,” says former Nevada State Senator William O’Donnell.

This guy Massoud Yashouafar is a scumbag! That’s why he and his brother fled from Iran back in the 70′s. (For those of you who may not know, that’s when Iran’s government was much like Egypt’s now…crooked. As a result, the Iranian people revolted against the Shah of Iran…but unlucky for the people of Iran when the crooked dictator was removed, another one took over.)

Guys like Massoud Yashouafar and his brother who is like the Ali Hassan al-Mahid to Massoud like he was to Saddam, support that sort of crooked governing, and have no problem with keeping people in bondage. That’s why he fled to America only to follow that same unlawful practices. Someone should tell Massoud and his family that America is not Iran, and we will not allow criminals to get away with crime…we will shine light on them and bring them to justice! Some of you may be wondering why Jacky is so upset with Massoud Yashoafar. Know why? Because Massoud ripped off my homey’s grandmother mane, and ripping off the elderly is not cool in my books.

National FDCPA DISCLOSURE NOTICE- Listen to this call with Silver States Trustee Services and Robert Paisola

To our friends around the world:


On July 4, 2010, we released a story about a lawsuit that was filed in Nevada entitled

Sky Las Vegas Is Sued for civil racketeering, negligence and breach of fiduciary duty, among other assertions., Robert Paisola Reports

 On February 17, 2011, we were conducting an investigation from our Utah Offices and we were able to reach representatives of Silver States Trustee Services LLC (A Party to the lawsuit mentioned below).  We were calling them, as we have been receiving many complaints about illegal liens being filed against homeowners by Homeowner Associations.  The call was documented for Court Purposes (Utah is a One Party State) 

However, as you all know, our mission is to hold the debt collection industry Accountable, and we go after them all when we hear of violations of the FDCPA or any other element of the law. This is why we featured the story above about a Nevada Law firm filing suit;  As you listen to this call, you will see the serious violations of Consumer Privacy Laws by Silver States and its Agents in direct violation of the law.  The call is a bit fuzzy at first, however, as you listen you will hear them rattle off claims of debts amounting to over 50,000 in direct violation of HOA Privacy Laws (Very Serious) and Federal Law (Major Damages)   So, after much thought and consideration, we made the decision to release the full recording, unedited for the media.  This should give The American Public a reality check.... because this company is registered as A DEBT COLLECTOR!  No place on the letters they send do they comply with the law, NOR IN THIS RECORDING.

Listen Carefully, as this call is worth over 500K in Damages!   

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We thank The Adams Lawfirm for filing Suit to help the victims of rogue HOA's such as Sky Las Vegas run by Christine A. Gibbs (until March 4, 2011 !!!) :

The plaintiffs in the Adams Law Firm Nevada Jan. 22 lawsuit are Higher Ground LLC, RRR Homes LLC, Triple Braided Cord LLC, Equisource LLC, Equisource Holdings LLC, Appleton Properties LLC, CBRIS LLC, Mega LLC and Southern Nevada Acquisitions LLC.

The approximately 125 associations sued include the Aliante Master Association, Desert Shores Community Association, Elkhorn Community Association, Estates at Seven Hills Owners Association and Seven Hills Master Community Association, Estates at Stallion Mountain Homeowners Association and the Stallion Mountain Community Association; and the Green Valley Ranch Community Association.

Also among those sued were the Mountains Edge Master Association, Panorama Towers Condominium Unit Owners Association, Peccole Ranch Community Association, Platinum Unit Owners Association, Rhodes Ranch Association, Sky Las Vegas Condominum Unit Owners Association, Southern Highlands Community Association, Summerlin South Community Association, Sun City Anthem Community Association, Sun City Macdonald Ranch Association, Sun City Summerlin Community Association and Sundridge at Macdonald Ranch Community Association.

The collection agencies to be sued Wednesday were Nevada Association Services Inc., RMI Management Inc. dba Red Rock Financial Services; Homeowner Association Services Inc., Alessi & Koenig, Hampton & Hampton, Angius & Terry Collections LLC, Eugene Burger Management Corp. and Silver State Trustee Services LLC.

If you are a victim of a company like this, please visit www.westerncapitalvip.com and email us at vip@mycollector.com  


So, Who is Robert Paisola and What does Western Capital do? This will show you in UNEDITED DETAIL how we win 99% of our cases around the nation.  Do you want to sue us? Good Luck! We will eat you alive in Court, that is WHY we have so many LOYAL clients. Just Google us!


Look at we are doing to a rogue debt buyer in Florida and Bank America. Attorney Melissa Ferris and her puppet Lawfirm will end up in PRISON!  We NEVER STOP.

Where do we go from here? Sun City Summerlin and Sky Las Vegas in Crisis 2011, Robert Paisola Reports

My dear friends around the world:

We want you to know that we are and have been receiving your emails regarding our involvement with Sky Las Vegas and Sun City Summerlin Nevada, as well as other homeowner associations around the nation; we know that what we have been able to accomplish is incredible.  We have so diligently been dealing  with problems at Sky Las Vegas, and as we sorted through the rubble, we were able to   meet your ultimate demand to rid the community of the former Executive Director Christine A Gibbs.  We made a commitment to many of you, residents, staff, owners, bankers and fellow media members that we would prevail, and we can formally state... We have succeeded!   During that arduous investigation processes (all chronicled on this blog) we  have been able to bring to light numerous other issues that have remained ”hidden under the rug”  for so long. We have taken your demands from the desire stage ("there is no way that you can do it") to the completion stage ("Oh My God, They did what we have been trying to do for years!")  By removing Christine A. Gibbs, The Executive Director at the Sky Las Vegas, from office as your Executive Director we did as you demanded.

As in every battle during wartime, there was collateral damage.  Gibbs entered into what she thought was a sweet deal arranged for her by Nevada Legal Counsel Michael L. Schulman, who happens to be the attorney for BOTH ASSOCIATIONS, Sky and Sun City!  She was embedded with Sun Board Member, Marilyn LeVaseleur, and a virtual coup took place by the Sun Board to FORCE Christine A. Gibbs into the position of Executive Director at Sun City.  (See CBS Video Below)  In order for this to happen, we were forced to spend countless hours dealing with both sides, and as soon as the members of the Sun City populace realized what was being pushed down their throats, (See CBS VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=224rEVT-Nhs ) , they quickly gathered and began to revolt as is shown in the video.

 It should be known that We have great care and respect for our friends at Sun City Summerlin, and there is no doubt that without their assistance, we could never have pulled off the rally that took place to protest the hiring if Christine Gibbs.  As reality began to set in, as to what was happening, These people (Residents of Sun) began to look toward us as they started to see what they were getting into.  We spent countless hours discussing the possible movement of Christine Gibbs to their property and how it was being done, under the color of midnight. The members of Sun City Summerlin went to work to gather data as fast as possible; as we did, including gaining the legal data to support the verification that the primary residence of Christine and James Gibbs was going to auction in March of 2011.  That revelation lead way to an extensive investigation, of which we have provided to you at www.SkyLasVegas.info.   

In the end, the Gibbs issue will surely going to end up in continued litigation, and many people will have to answer for their deeds.  This will give you an idea of how they are reacting... Amazing Reading!

It goes to show what a small group, led by one 86 year old man named Bob Robey, who gave us uninhibited access to his online forum, can change the lives of so many of his neighbors.

In reviewing Robey’s information, we found an article that was written for the Las Vegas Review Journal

Lets see what they had to say:

Copyright  Las Vegas Review-Journal

HOUSING: Fees and Loathing IN LAS VEGAS

By HUBBLE SMITH

REVIEW-JOURNAL

Eunice Schwenig said she's fed up with her homeowners association fees being "arbitrarily" raised at Sun City Summerlin.

She was paying $260 a year when she bought a new home at Del Webb's age-restricted development in the master-planned Las Vegas community 10 years ago.

But the fees have steadily risen, reaching $680 this year with another $135 being tacked on for 2004.

What pushed Schwenig overboard was a $700 special assessment for each home owner to shore up the "catastrophe fund," which was drained when Sun City had to replace some golf course water pumps a couple years ago.

"Nobody's ever stopped these people for 10 years that I've lived here," she said. "We're only upset because this is an extraordinary expense and the board is not trying to live within their budget."

Battles between Las Vegas Valley home owners and their association boards have cropped up over everything from fee increases to rules about portable basketball hoops in the street.

Home owners are told what color they are allowed to paint their house, how long their garbage receptacle may be left out before and after trash pickup, where to park their cars, how and when to display the American flag, whether they're allowed to hang a clothesline in the back yard.

Those found in noncompliance are fined, and failure to pay the fines can result in liens being placed against their homes.

A multitude of horror stories abound. Some residents have gone so far as to hire lawyers to take their cases to court.

Homeowners associations, or HOAs, were formed to protect the value of neighborhoods, to enhance and maintain amenities such as parks, community centers and common areas.

Through Special Improvement Districts, later paid by home owners in HOA fees, the cost of municipal infrastructure such as sidewalks, roads and streetlights is shifted from the city to the developer.

Some 50 million Americans now live in 250,000 association-governed communities, according to the Alexandria, Va.-based Community Associations Institute, and experts predict that number will soon double.

There are 1,191 homeowners associations registered in Clark County , said Eldon Hardy, ombudsman for the state's Common Interest Communities.

The problem is that some associations, composed of voluntary board members, can become overzealous and are often inflexible, and can even overstep their legal boundaries.

Some boards write covenants, conditions and restrictions that seemingly serve no purpose in maintaining property values, critics of the associations say.

"They say they can do anything," Sun City resident Ruth Lieburn said. "You can't talk, you can't vote. They say, `We can do whatever we want.' "

She said one resident, frustrated by the board's unwillingness to compromise or even listen to what he had to say, drew applause when he stood up and gave a "Heil Hitler" salute at a recent HOA meeting.

The emerging political urban consensus is that HOAs are a necessary evil.

The effectiveness of homeowners associations is vastly underestimated these days, particularly when it comes to home appreciation, said Shawn Cunningham, a real estate agent with Re/Max Advantage in Las Vegas .

"People complain about them, but there are neighborhoods in town that are three years old that look 30, especially in-fill neighborhoods in the northeast and east Henderson where homes were built in the middle of older areas with no HOA and the neighborhoods quickly deteriorated," he said.

On the other hand, older areas with HOAs have managed to preserve their curb appeal.

Cunningham cites The Lakes, an upscale neighborhood on west Sahara Avenue , where homes are 15 years old. Go a couple miles north and east and you'll find homes built at roughly the same time that aren't worth nearly as much, he said.

"The difference is that The Lakes has great associations that keep those residents inclined to park their cars on the lawn in check," Cunningham said.

Homes in newer areas such as Summerlin, Green Valley and northwest Las Vegas Valley tend to hold values much better than in the northeast part of town, where appreciation is slow, simply because they have good homeowners associations in place whose primary purpose is to keep the values rising, he said.

"And whenever I have a buyer that complains about the high HOA fees, which is often, especially with people from out of town, I always tell them that the $100 fee or even $150 fee in some higher-end and condo communities is easily worth the extra $1,000 a month that you'll make in appreciation because your neighbors are forced to keep their homes up," Cunningham said.

HOAs hold a few other advantages over traditional neighborhoods, the Community Associations Institute contends.

Residents share ownership of common land and have access to recreational facilities such as swimming pools and tennis courts that they otherwise may not be able to afford.

They automatically become members of a community association and typically must abide by the rules. They pay an "assessment," often a monthly fee, that is used for upkeep of the common areas and other services and amenities.

These self-governed communities usually feature attractive combinations of well-designed homes and landscaped open spaces.

Homes may even cost less than traditional housing because of more efficient land use.

About 6,000 to 8,000 new community associations are formed every year, including those for condominiums, cooperatives and planned communities. It is estimated that 4 out of 5 housing starts in the past five to eight years have been built as part of an association-governed community.

In 1999, Gallup conducted a survey that found 75 percent of association home owners were "very" or "extremely" satisfied with their communities.

Prime drivers of satisfaction included overall community appearance, safety, financial accountability, location and friendly neighbors.

Forty percent said they wouldn't consider selling their house even if given 15 percent above the market value.

Half of community associations were very responsive to the needs of their residents and 17 percent were extremely responsive, the survey said.

That differs from what Sherryl Baca lists as the No. 1 complaint she hears from association residents: their calls are never returned.

"Every one of their complaints is justified, but most of the time, they complain about (board members) not calling back," said Baca, chief executive officer of CMS, a company that manages 20 HOA communities in Las Vegas .

CMS works with association boards to keep the architectural integrity of a neighborhood intact, so that you don't drive down a street of mostly earth-tone homes and then see one painted purple, she said.

Baca said HOAs run the spectrum between the good, the bad and the ugly.

"A lot of times, people break rules because they don't know the rules. It's unfortunate when that occurs," she said. "Part of the problem there is my idea of cleanliness and your idea of cleanliness may be two different things.

"Sometimes it's a big power thing. They make a lot of rule changes and there are a lot of HOAs like that. I've seen them. Then there's the flip side where people don't do enough to keep a property up."

The second complaint Baca hears is that walk-through inspections aren't done to make sure that the gardener is doing his job or that people are adhering to parking regulations.

Hal Bloch, president of Summerlin Community Association, said he had never lived in an HOA community, but moved to Summerlin because he appreciated the protection that association rules gave him as a home owner.

"In order to get that protection, you give up certain latitudes such as painting your house orange," he said. "We believe we're entrusted by home owners but we're not dictators. We try to keep a light hand on the reins and still enforce the rules. If you waiver on the rules, you'll be salamied to death, one bite at a time."

Bloch said a phone survey was conducted as a result of the flap over basketball hoops and 15 percent to 20 percent of people said the HOA wasn't enforcing rules strictly enough.

"We tread a middle course between being too strict and not being strict enough," he said. "There is no perfect answer to any set of problems. I think the net on the bottom line in Las Vegas , living in an HOA is a pretty good move."

250,000   Communities nationally governed by homeowners associations

6,000       New associations formed nationally each year

1,191       Homeowners associations registered in Clark County

300          Subdivisions being built in Las Vegas that have HOAs

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So, now where do we go?  Well… One thing that we know is that Gibbs is completely out of the picture at Sky Las Vegas.  This means that there will have to be an executive committee setup to screen the candidates.  We have been told that the first thing that the board of directors at Sun is going to do is FIRE GIBBS. She has a 3 month severance built into her contract, but that is nothing compared to a Gibbs Regime at Sun City Summerlin.  We have been told that they are going to cut their losses quickly.

We look to the board of the Sky Las Vegas to seriously consider what has happened.  We are open to working with honest and honorable people, including Mr. M. Aaron Yashouafar , who as of today has 79 units in Sky Las Vegas.  We are planning on working with the Board of Directors at Sky Las Vegas to help them get over the damage that they have sustained under the Christine A Gibbs Administration, and again, all we ask for is that you judge us by our results.  Stay tuned for further developments and breaking news. This is being cross posted on NBC4.

To your Continued Success

Robert Paisola

CEO

The Western Capital Foundation USA

Robert@robertpaisola.com

CBS NYC- HIRING OF CHRISTINE A GIBBS FROM CHICAGO DRAWS PROTEST FROM MANY /CBS NEWS VIDEO

 

FROM CBS NEWS,

Sharie Harvin Reports for CBS from Las Vegas, Nevada

THE FULL STORY LIVE

Who is Marilyn LeVaseleur?

LAS VEGAS -- While protestors rallied at the Grant Sawyer Building, Nevada's largest homeowners association met in Summerlin. The Sun City Summerlin HOA held a special meeting to approve hiring a new executive director. The meeting that turned into a shouting match.

For two hours, Sun City Summerlin homeowners expressed their frustration and opposition to approving a new executive director. The controversy is over timing. The association is in the middle of an election and in two weeks a new board will be in place.

It's a decision one board member says can wait.

"I think it behooves us to wait. Some people are in a hurry and for the life of me, I don't know why," said board member Joe O'Connel.

None of the five board members who voted for the new leader were willing to talk about their position on the matter. It is a problem homeowners say is bigger than their 14,000 member association.

"What's happened here today is a symptom. It's the cause -- it's a symptom," said homeowner Robert Hall.
And a solution they hope comes out of this legislative session -- laws giving homeowners more power than their association.

"This is gonna bankrupt most of the common interest communities in this state and cause the kind of situation we've seen here today," said Hall.

In two weeks, ballots must be in and the new board will meet on the 24th of this month. Board members say they could move to fire the new executive director, but then the issue becomes, how much her replacement will cost.

Hundreds of members of Sun City Summerlin Homeowner's Association are upset with their board and they let them know it in a very heated meeting today. CBS NEWS Reporter Sharie Harvin will have a report at 6.

 

Re: [SCBuzz] Re: Summerlin, You have Captured the Wonderment of America, Robe...

Gentleman:

Robert Paisola,  phoned me today and emphasized as a FACT that Steinman as President was improperly removed from office without any written or tested by rebuttal time to face his accusers. On one count he has been exonerated and on the other the alleged victim has stated that it was not accurate.  Threats from the Bjonerud\McCanna duo, were taken too seriously.   This was wrong and is still a wrongful act.   Was the Bjonerud\McCanna duo threat an act of "extortion and or blackmail"?  Perhaps this needs to be researched fast.

I suspect that if this is adjudicated, Steinman would be declared, or judged to still be the President and all acts by the LeVasseur Board found to be null & void.   This I would l like to believe.
 
Bernard Silver

"Look how fast this was posted and the link distributed. I tried to warn you! :(
And this is just the beginning, folks. Our problems are going to be splashed all
over the Internet. I am so disappointed in this chat line for giving him a forum
to cause such harm to our community. It is going to be very difficult for our
community to recover from this."

BJ Martens

Our Reply

WHY do you think that you are getting the attention YOU DESERVE? Do you not see that this is the ONLY way that you are going to undo the serious harm you have received as a result of this board.  The statement that  should be asked is this... WHAT AM I, AS A VICTIM GOING TO DO TO ASSIST Mr. Silver and Mr Bob Robey Are DOING for YOU.  Being an armchair quarterback does NOTHING.  If you question our intentions, just ask Mr Robey about the call we had with Steinmans Attorney Today.  Wake UP!

PAISOLA/LAS/AFP Las Vegas

Michael Schulman - Michael you may be surprised that I write you, but more surprised of what I have to say.  

Michael I come to you in two ways!    First I just know how you operate that you never would have approved the result of what took place by the SCSCAI Board, and self serving LeVasseur pushing what took place at the circus of early today.   You can say what you want, I am sure this was up front not your suggestion.

Now the other side of the issue of the new Executive Director!    If you did support the issue the SCSCAI Board passed, with the self serving LeVasseur admitting by her act that she cares little for the residents, then you should not be fired or released - - - if I was on the Board you would be thrown out by your A - - !

         Have some guts Michael, admit the truth, and if I am originally correct, and you
         did not support what LeVasseur and the Board did - - -say so - - - and you will
         see that if that be the case, you will get more support then you can possible
         believe to stay on.   You see Michael, in Sun City Summerlin, we and I have
         believed hurting anyone is a no no - - - yet we have the so and so LeVasseur
         and her cronies hurting us all.   I had informed you that here openly you
         supported their terrible decision, and beyond even your back, both LeVasseur
         and Cullen in their secret writings clearly stated they were to hide data even
         from you Mr. Schulman, yet they come along asking for your assistance to
         possibly pull them out of a hole.   Mike their about as two faced as any one
         in the business.   By the way Mr. Schulman, do you think I would refer to
         their secrecy policy without having copies of their secrets????

Mr. Schulman it was not a success having you at the Board meeting, but we all know that you were possibly there to be LeVasseur's possible puppet.   Quite frankly
Michael, she does 'nt know sh - -  from shin - - -and when do we get your bill for attending the circus???

                       Thanks,

                                                                        Bob  Passmonick


Bruce:
I think you and BJ should rethink what you are saying. You both sound more like
the Board and Bjonerud every day. We just had five duds (that translates to
self-serving) vote for an ED who was hand picked by Schulman. The more that we
can get in the news and the internet the better. I stated on the chat lines a
long time ago that the ED had been hand picked and the five, actually 6 but Cook
is a coward, had continual contact with Christine A. Gibbs. Christine Gibbs isn't qualified but even
if she were she would never be able to serve with an honest Board.
Don Gelbman

p.s. We will soon have a vote that will change everything one way or the other.
Given the usual Apathy and communications control it will be an uphill fight.
We have Steinman and O'Connell so we need 3 more to take the Assocation back.
If we get only 2 we will at least be able to get rid of some of the secrecy. It
would be 5-4 but 4 is all we need to make sure the Board obeys the NRS and
governing documents with regard to what is privileged and what MUST be public.

Bruce Alitt Speaks

In a message dated 2/8/2011 11:05:16 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, robert@westerncapitalcredit.com writes:

Mr. Bruce Alitt:
This is Robert Paisola, CEO of Western Capital International  (Personally) . I would ask that you read our corporate statement on exactly what it is we do and WHY we are reaching out to the 7000 members of your community.

Sir, your commentary has been heard and just as you are proficient in the area of sprinkler repair at Marcello's, we are the experts of governmental and media alliances to STOP THE TRAVESTY that your community is facing.

I really do not care if you like me at all. That has never been the goal. You may wish to watch this video that my foundation created with the mission of change as our constant goal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgxRdZ2b_u4

Just look at our results on a WORLDWIDE basis.

Regards
Robert Paisola

Gardeners/Landscapers: (Home)

• Marcello’s Sprinkler Service, 339-4631. (Bruce Alitt 255-4105, Ralph Edrich and Barry Feinblatt 796-3232)

BJ Martens of Sun City Nevada Speaks of "Control of Information" and "Please deny any Post from Paisola What the Hell? Can these people see what is going on.  I was warned that people who live at Sun City Summerlin are apathetic, but I REFUSE to believe this! Lets see what BJ Martens has to say!

Bob, those of us whose only "agenda" is serious interaction about issues affecting our community won't mind at all if you temporarily moderate this chat line. In fact, I ask you to PLEASE moderate! And deny all posts from Robert Paisola including any forwards or reposts. Freedom of speech is fine but not when it causes harm to others.

There are a few individuals here in Sun City Summerlin who may continue to feed him with information for his blog. Please remember folks, the saying "bite the hand that feeds you" has more than one meaning. The more raw meat you give a dog the more he will want, and things could become quite unpleasant if he doesn't get it. 

Bottom line: this outsider has no vested interest in Sun City Summerlin, and therefore nothing at risk. Let's not jeopardize our residents' investment in this community by playing into his agenda.

BJ Martens

- Why would ANYONE EVER WANT TO MOVE INTO A PLACE SUCH AS SUN CITY SUMMERLIN WHERE PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN A BUBBLE AND THE WORLD IS FULL OF "OUTSIDERS"   GOD.. I AM GLAD THAT THE PEOPLE WE ASSIST TRULY "Get It"!

Rob

 Association rules lead to homeowner march

By Hubble Smith
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

Brigitte Porter was fined $3,110 by Heather Ridge Homeowners Association because the color of her driveway paint was a different shade from the previous color.
Doris Vescio of Sun City Anthem has been fined $100 a week since November for a fence that's more than 6 feet high, even though it was approved by the HOA architectural committee.
Joseph McCauley complained that the Mount Charleston Golf Estates board illegally approved a $2,500 special assessment without putting the item on a meeting agenda and under false pretenses to intimidate owners.
More than 50 homeowners fed up with community association "bully boards" gathered Monday at Sawyer Building to rally against what some perceive as abusive power, harassment and exorbitant fines.
They're calling on legislators in Carson City to introduce laws that would cap the amount of HOA fines and collection agency fees, eliminate "kangaroo courts" run by homeowners association boards and limit the mandatory arbitration requirement.
"You left your garage door open. Your garbage cans were left out. There's a brown spot in your lawn. You're guilty before you walk into the board hearing," said Jonathan Friedrich, an eight-year resident of Rancho Bel Air and rally organizer.
He spoke about the "wheel of horrors," or shortcomings of Nevada Revised Statute 116, the state law governing homeowners association boards. The state ombudsman doesn't protect homeowners; attorneys take retaliatory action against homeowners; and 85 percent of decisions in mandatory arbitration go against the homeowner, he said.
Nevada is struggling with its financial budget, educational system and unemployment rate, said Friedrich, who has volunteered to go to Carson City as an unpaid lobbyist on behalf of community association homeowners.
"If we attract people back to the state, where are they going to live? In an HOA with bully boards?" Friedrich said. "It's interesting that on the MLS (Multiple Listing Service), Realtors are advertising, 'No HOA.' What does that tell you?"
The alternative dispute resolution process administered by the Nevada Real Estate Division is broken, said Bob Sullivan, a Las Vegas attorney who represented several homeowners in cases against their HOAs. It needs "transparency and honesty," he said.
HOA attorneys and arbitrators will always opt for arbitration because they're awarded tens of thousands of dollars in fees, Sullivan said. Homeowners are forced into mediation before they can file a lawsuit.
"You've got $25,000 to $40,000 in legal fees before you step into court. It's absolutely ridiculous," Sullivan said.
The movement toward reining in HOA abuse is getting larger and more organized each year, Sullivan said. He encouraged those at the rally to run for HOA boards in their communities, but to be "passionate and fair" should they get elected and not use their power for retaliation.
Bob Robey, a Sun City Summerlin resident and rally organizer, said he wants his civil rights returned. There's no separation of power with the HOA board of directors. They write the rules, enforce the rules and issue the fines, he said.
"I see a lack of consistency that if any city hall were run like this, it would be a shame," Robey said.
Lawmakers thought they were doing homeowners a favor by writing into law that HOAs can fine someone only $100 per violation, with repeat violations up to $1,000, but lawyers weren't making enough from those fees and now run them up to $8,000 to $10,000, Robey said.
Friedrich has set up a website, www.hoa1234.com, to draw support for the homeowners' cause and keep people abreast of happenings. He said there are about 15 bill drafts in the Legislature dealing with HOAs.
He said Assemblyman Harvey Munford, D-Las Vegas, introduced a home- owners' "bill of rights" at the last Legislature and it got "trampled on" because it would hurt attorneys, collection companies and community association managers. Munford complained to his HOA when his stepdaughter's car was illegally towed from a gated community.
Patricia Taylor, president of Nevada's chapter of Community Associations Institute, said she can understand homeowners' frustrations and agrees that changes are necessary.
"We're going in the same direction, we just have different ways to attack the problem," she said.
Taylor said there's a difference between a one-time fine and continuing violations.
"Let's say the lawn is yellow. They can continue to fine you until it's corrected," she said. "If you do cap the fine, somebody will buy the fine. They'll pay the $2,000 cap and won't do the lawn."
Realtor Troy Kearns said he has to deal with HOAs every day and said "they're basically tyrannical and aggressive." The whole problem is putting people in power who don't understand the law, he said.

DONALD GELBMAN SPEAKS IN AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BOARD RE EXECUTIVE SESSION 2/2/11

ATTORNEY DONALD GELBMAN SPEAKS IN AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BOARD RE EXECUTIVE SESSION 2/2/11

You will meet today in a continuation of a series of Executive Sessions, all related to the hiring of a new Executive Director.

You are doing this even though at least one director is out of town and can’t attend.

 Signing a contract with an Executive Director is critical to the success of SCSCAI but you the Board are and have spent a great deal of Association money on a task THAT MUST NOT BE ACCOMPLISHED BEFORE THE NEW BOARD IS SEATED ON 2/23/11.

The fact that the Board is meeting today in preparation for a special open Board Meeting with the only Agenda Item being the hiring of an ED raises questions and concerns.  I urge each director to think carefully about his or her absolute requirement of acting as Fiduciaries doing things in the best interest of the Association.

The rumors are that Marilyn is trying to hire a questionable candidate.  It is also obvious she is being challenged and doesn’t have a majority at this point supporting her efforts to hire an alleged unqualified ED.
 None of us can know exactly what is going on but one thing is very clear.  Each Director is an independent Fiduciary and if all the rumors and speculation have any basis of truth, you will be violating your
Fiduciary Duties.

You will have to defend what you do this week.  Why would a responsible Board go through the process this Board is going through if there wasn’t something wrong.  We have a regularly scheduled Board meeting on 2/15 and a new Board on 2/23.  That fact makes all that has been done and all that has been spent doing it suspect.  Right now they are just allegations and rumors but each of you is charged with the knowledge of
what you are doing.  If what you are doing is in the best interests of the Association, in your honest opinion, based upon due diligence, you have nothing to worry about.  From what I do know about the leadership
of Marilyn, some of you are taking a risk that is unnecessary.

Don Gelbman, Esq.


-Our Comments:
If it can be proven (this would be easy) that you (the board) violated that fiduciary position to 7000 SENIOR CITIZENS and were compelled or "forced" to act, you could/will be the subject of a PERSONAL LAWSUIT and WORLDWIDE PUBLICITY on ELDER ABUSE because of your wanton disregard to the law.  Don.. We will be there all the way, and it will be in the MILLIONS.  Do the right thing my friends.. STOP NOW....



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Dear Mr. Gelbman and others,

The question before the house.  If the Board discusses items in executive session that are not covered by NRS 116s limited scope of executive sessions, can a Board members disclose those discussions.  Or better yet, it is the duty of Board members to disclose violations of law?

Robey
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Passmonick Responds to Robey

Bob Robey - Listen closely!    As I have stated many times, you must as a Board member or simply as a resident, disclose anything that is done against the governing documents.   Let me give you an example - - -take the past Bill Cantor issue, whereby Mr. Cantor was brought up on charges years back with the Board secretly finding him guilty, yet when I informed the Board that since they acted against the governing documents on purpose I would inform the residents, they quickly found Cantor innocent.    Then hard to believe, but near six years later Winkel charged Cantor with the identical charges and the Board without notice of what would happen, found him guilty.    Also Bob take the recent issue with the removal of Steinman as President.    To remove any HOA Board Officer, the requirement in Nevada is to have the charges presented to that Board Officer in writing, giving that party the option to have a hearing openly or closed.   Did this Board under LeVasseur follow the guidelines - - -of course not, and because of this, we can possibly look at Steinman as still being the proper SCSCAI President, with LeVasseur being nothing but a has been!

To close Bob, in successful HOA controversies, if the Board is clearly acting outside the guidelines, rules and laws, there is nothing wrong to expose such actions.   Yet I must tell you that the Board may take action as they did when I was on the Board, to initiate charges against me near seven times, but the bottom line being that I asked for open hearings, before many residents, and because of this the Board lost every hearing.

               Thanks,

                                                                      Bob  Passmonick

Something really is bad in Sun City Summerlin.  

-This is called Discovery America..... For Court To PROVE YOU HAD THE FACTS FROM COUNSEL...

This can be appreciated when one reads below the "WARNING" ..... not a threat of alleged

extortion\ blackmail as our Board received from the Sun City duo McCanna\Bjonerud on August 19, 2010.

Don Gelbman Esq. licensed in Nevada and a resident owner in Sun City is reminding the Board that as individual Directors they are responsible for their actions as "fiduciaries".

The 'Marilyn' referred to below is our Sun City President, Marilyn LeVasseur who does not enjoy the wholehearted support of a large percentage of members in this Common Interest Community because of known efforts to deny 'full disclosure' to the other Directors and the Association members.  

She has a record of communicating with selected members in a manner that is most unworthy of a President. 

As an example, in one Email she informed the Secretary, Pat Cullen that she had instructed Accounting to not provide another Director, Bud Cook with information on Reserves because he was not one of her team players, or words to that effect.  

Copies are available.  

This President is just bad news for our community and is causing us very large fees with outside attorneys.  

She has got to go.

Only the Association members can make the easy changes necessary ...... legal challenges may be necessary.   Meanwhile;  be aware, this does not add to our house values.

Now read on.

Bernard Silver

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Read Letter Annotated Above "The Gelbman Warning"
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Schulman Speaks and Board is given DIRE WARNING by Passmonick
2/2/2011 10:19 AM PST  - For Discovery

SCSCAI Board of Directors, Don Gelbman & Others 

- Having just got off the phone with attorney Schulman, I with data available, will do all I can to work toward what is best for SCSCAI.   

With no holds barred, if LeVasseur continues to tear down SCSCAI, and continues to be involved with issues that have hurt the many fine seniors, she has got to be stopped at all costs, yet all costs within the guidelines, laws, and common sense.

By the way Schulman said he will be at the Monday Board meeting.

A suggestion I have to the Board is to stop cold the Executive Director issue until the new Board takes their position after the election.   

Schulman and I discussed many issues, including the secrecy program that LeVasseur and Cullen use, the party said to possibly be supported and pushed to be the Executive Director, and even the Sky issue involving possibly Gibbs etc.

To the Board members I not warn, for I do not operate that way, but continue to act against what is best for the many SCSCAI seniors, and it will only in the long run hurt SCSCAI. 

The meeting that was changed from the 4th to the 7th could have easily been held immediately after the Board meeting of the 15th, and would have avoided much of this controversy, as well as have avoided the expenses not needed.

Obviously knowing Schulman since I brought him to SCSCAI in April 2002, was a plus, but keeping him as legal counsel is something currently that I feel may not be the best for SCSCAI at this time.

                 My best,

                                                                        Bob  Passmonick

BOB PASSMONICK CLARIFIES PERSONAL VS ASSOCIATION LIABILITY FOR ILLEGAL ACTS:  PERSONAL LIABILITY IN TH MILLIONS FOR LaVasseur Et Al.


For Immediate Release


Sun City Summerlin Residents -

Folks currently there is the issue of Indemnification of Directors and Officers, as referred to in the SCSCAI by-laws.   

To discuss this issue with the SCSCAI residents, I'll bring the issue down to terms better understood.  

Indemnification of Directors and Officers in plain terms is an issue used to safeguard any HOA Board Director and/or Officer, from being subjected to claims, suits etc. in referene to what they have agreed to when accepting their position of either Director, Officer or at times both.

Yet folks there are several issues that must be met to qualify for that indemnification, the most serious being that if there is an act outside the State guidelines, and/or outside the governing documents, and it is confirmed to have taken place both knowledgeable up front, and on purpose, then no doubt the indemnification process does not fit that issue, 

AND that party in such a known position up front, should never have the indemnification issue to be used to safeguard their purposeful act.  

Here in Sun City Summerlin we have, supported by copies of emails etc,. and statements supported by many residents who attended various meetings, that the likes of LeVasseur and Cullen, in particular, have possibly acted outside any and all guidelines.   

Proof of these such actions for example, have been the obvious act outside all the guidelines when both were definitely involved with the removal of the past SCSCAI President - - - -some have asked how?

When in Nevada there is a request by an HOA Board to remove a Board Officer, that Board Officer must be noticed in writing of the charges for the requested removal, and must be given the choice of a hearing, whether it be open or closed - - - this the choice of the party accused.   

Precedent in such cases are usually referred to, and we do have such a precedent - - -it taking place on September 28, 1998, right here in SCSCAI, when the then Board removed the then Board Secretary, also removing that Board member from his then two Chairmanships. 

After all this is still America, and no one is guilty simply by being charged, but must be proven guilty within the guidelines, rules and laws.   

Was Mr. Steinman's removal properly handled within the guidelines, or was the move simply political, to allow yet Marilyn LeVasseur to take over as President?   Needless to say, but after taking over the Presidency, the additional acts, of initiating a secrecy program, proven by the secret emails that have been intercepted, by the firing of the HR Director, and now with the controversy related to the replacement of the Executive Director, are possibly added nails in the so called coffin.

To summarize, with the purposeful act of taking over SCSCAI as it took place, not only Ms. LeVasseur, but also the three who supported her act that faithful day of October 4, 2010, not should, but must be brought to bear, more than for any reason, but to stop this nonsense without the guidelines being properly followed.   To end this summarization, those responsible acted possibly outside their authority, and therefore should without a doubt, not be covered by resident funds to guide them through what takes place, as we move forward.   

Indemnification in simple terms relates to HOA resident funds to pay for the expense coverage for Directors and Officers, but that is if in their duties they do not on purpose act outside the proper guidelines.    This not the case, for time and time again those Board members responsible, were in turn told and warned about the act they were involved in, and yet literally spit in the faces of their constituents, going forward with acts that have severely hurt their senior neighbors.

To close, it is with this all said, that the Four, with LeaVasseur in the lead, who removed Steinman possibly outside the proper guidelines knowingly, and placed the hard nosed LeVasseur in as President must face what they literally asked for - - - this being a community to come down on each of them individually, not allowing resident funds to cover their possible lies as their defense.  

          Thanks for listening,

                                                                     Bob  Passmonick

I wonder is there any a monetary compensation being paid to M L under the table or commonly known as payola by the individual that M L is pushing for the E D’s job?

Will there be an investigation by the RICO division of the DOJ because of what appears to be impropriety by M L regarding the hiring of the questionable candidate being pushed by M L?

Norman

 ITS WARMING UP IN SUN CITY SUMMERLIN -----That is Politically!

Rumors are everywhere and on many aspects relating to the governance of our Sun City Summerlin and the forthcoming counting of ballots for 5 out of the 9 Directors which will take place on Feb. 23.  

Other than the typical acrimonious and derogatory statements from the self appointed "King\Queen" maker duo, Sheila McCanna & Stan Bjonerud, who appear to delight in expounding on the attributes of the candidates they wish to control, and making deleterious statements about the other candidates life goes on with the typical mudslinging one would expect from these two.

A real situation is developing that is interesting.  It goes like this.

Our current President Marilyn LeVasseur, aided by Pat Cullen Secretary and Ellen Bachman, achieved her seat by engineering a rapid coup at a time when there were two unexpected Board vacancies. One from death, and one from a resignation.  For whatever the real reasons, which now appears to be the antics of a would be dictator gaining power, charges were made about David Steinman the then President and he was dismissed from office and replaced by LeVasseur.

Here is the real problem.  David Steinman was never formally charged with a written document and was not given the opportunity to defend himself in an open session.  Therefore his removal was improper should be nullified.  LeVasseur, the engineer of the coup, is not President.  David Steinman is.  I believe that on this issue, there are complexities that I can't begin to think about because they are beyond my pay grade.  Our attorney, in my opinion has a great interest and many will be watching.  I'm informed that he will be at the Board Meeting on Feb 7.  It could be interesting.

There is a lot of unhappy Association members because it appears that our outside Association attorney ( not named ) has failed as an expert on HOA law to inculcate the Board that each Director is a 'Fiduciary' and could be held personally  liable for failures to perform correctly.  Such failure could cause them the loss of indemnification for normal coverage. 

Additionally we hear the complaints that our outside attorney should have advised the President LeVasseur on the right thing to do regarding the hiring of a new Executive Director.  Why should this Board, which will be replaced on Feb 23 be making the decision on the selection of the Executive Director? 

As such, because of the appearance of the lack of consideration for the approximate 12,000 Association members who pay all bills, the continuation of seeking services from the current law firm is being called into question.  Note that this FY 2011 the estimated losses from mismanagement of three golf courses, which are used by less than 6% of our unit owners, and the Food & Beverages, is estimated to be about $3,200,000  and we have to add to this unknown but expected to be unusual high legal fees, created by the imposter President Marilyn LeVasseur.

Bernard Silver

Bob  Passmonick Discusses Fraud and Illegal Placement of Marilyn LeVasseur as President of HOA, She is NO LONGER RECOGNIZED and ATTORNEY MICHAEL SCHULMAN COMPLICIT ... Payoffs?

Sun City Residents - I address this to any resident, primarily SCSCAI Board members, who have data regarding hard nose LeVasseur, to bring out the data and/or information now, and not wait for the SCSCAI election process.

It must be realized that a recall of any Board member or Board members is legal, but as we experienced several years back, it becomes possibly a nightmare to go forward with such a recall.   It is obvious to many that LeVasseur and her, pardon this expression, but her cronies, are taking advantage of the many SCSCAI seniors, and anyone including current Board members who have any data to add to what we already know of what LeVasseur has been involved in, have a fiduciary responsibility to come forward with that data.

Again I was asked yesterday by two residents, what has she been involved with?

LeVasseur took the lead in an October 4, 2010 SCSCAI coup, when she and three of her cronies removed the then SCSCAI President.   We now have facts that the removal was no doubt against the Nevada State and SCSCAI governing document guidelines, questioning the validity of her Presidency.

Then LeVasseur had her cronies place her in the position of the President of which they had removed, never giving the removed President his right to properly defend himself.   After all in this great country no one is guilty unless they rightfully so, are given the opportunity to defend themselves!

Then LeVasseur saw that even employees were upset in what was happening, so she fired the then Human Resource Director, and will no doubt fire any other employee who crosses her self serving path.

Then LeVasseur found it near impossible to operate as she pleases, rather then as she should and must, so what action did she take next?    Why she initiated a SCSCAI secrecy program, having messages thought to be secret passed between herself and Board member Cullen.    Pardon this expression, but they were both too dumb, not realizing that in almost every HOA there are various parties who are honest and truthful, something lacking with LeVasseur, so out of the blue, someone not known had intercepted the LeVasseur secret messages and was sending myself copies - - - and I again say thanks.    Reading these LeVasseur/Cullen writings made me realize that among us in Sun City Summerlin we have several in SCSCAI who want to look innocent, yet their actions against their neighbors is and has been a complete disgrace.   Yesterday I spoke with SCSCAI legal counsel to warn even he, that these two in their supposed secret messages, had the nerve to write about keeping data from even legal counsel.   Just imagine, both LeVasseur and Cullen needing and using legal counsel, and then planning to keep from the same legal counsel, data they are hiding.

What next!!!    LeVasseur, besides passing on giving a gift to the departed Executive Director of $128,000 in resident funds, is now in the midst of from what we hear of replacing the Executive Director, with possibly someone who LeVasseur is rushing through to get the position, an appointment that rightfully so, should be made by the new incoming Board of Directors.   Keep in mind that the gift to the outgoing Executive Director never was earned - - -how could it be earned when during his seven years, SCSCAI lost millions, a golf program financially failed, and he never put together a proper financial program.   Yet they hand him that $128,000 - - - -some again ask was that a gift or a payoff to keep him quiet???

Folks if the impossible does happen and LeVasseur manages to win a position in her re-election bid, this will only be the beginning, in plans to come down on an apparent possible disgrace that has taken SCSCAI by its roots and hurt every SCSCAI senior, many not realizing or knowing what she has been involved with!

        Having been in this HOA business for many years, believe me when I say that
        LeVasseur should take credit for one thing - - - that being that in my many
        years in this HOA business, never have I seen any Board member do so much
        to hurt so many in such a fine community as Sun City Summerlin.

                Thanks for listening,

                                                                         Bob  Passmonick

Gail Stacy - Who in the possible hitlerite clan has stopped or invalidated the petition collection?    Here we have a candidate LeVasseur, having the legal counsel who we all pay for, openly endorsing LeVasseur, possibly the worst Board member in SCSCAI history, and then residents who again pay all the fees are said they cannot have a petition.    Gail almost every day here in SCSCAI, all the decent SCSCAI residents are met with rules that simply help the nasties hurt the many fine seniors.  
Now some ask, how can this get out to the SCSCAI residents.   To do what I did many times when on the SCSCAI Board seven years - - - that is not to follow the hitlerite rules, and yes I was brought up on charges seven times, but asked for open resident attended hearings, and won every hearing easily.    This is the same way LeVasseur became President, when they removed Steinman in an October 4, 2010 coup, not properly within the State and SCSCAI guidelines, allowing Mr. Steinman to properly defend himself.   This is still America - - - - -or is it????

Bottom line Ms. Stacey and others - - - we are now in a purposely managed HOA, that does not ask, but orders their residents on almost how to do everything but breathe, and that may be next.    As I have said and experienced in my many years in the HOA business - - -when you allow fools to get away with crap, they simply expand their takeover.    We have seen this with near 95% of the residents being ordered to pay for golf, when they never step on the courses, we have seen this when residents are ordered to even support non residents with their golf play, and when the very few were allowed to take over SCSCAI this past October, everyone should have known this was far from the end of a few ruling the many, only to make SCSCAI a future mess,  but with facts in my hand, this has all resulted directly in hurting resales in this fine community.   All this is currently out in the open across southern Nevada,
and being in this business for years, I have been asked - - -what makes you reside in such a community??????

                                                               Bob  Passmonick

P.S.    You can add to this two years back when even the Clark County Assessor
           because of how SCSCAI was operated, thought he could get away with
           billing all SCSCAI residents with taxes on properties we did not own.  Yes
           we in the annual tax billings were billed for taxes not owned.   The Board at
           the time said this is fine, so I filed a complaint with the Nevada State AG,
           with the result of that complaint coming back to me to state I was 100%
           correct, and that the SCSCAI Board was 100% wrong, and that never again
           would SCSCAI residents be billed for illegal taxes.

           I close this P.S. with wake up SCSCAI - - -we are being victimized almost
           every day, with individuals who care little for all of us, except when they
           possibly lie when they want our votes!