Letter: Homeowners groups must put people first, assets second

Wednesday, April 29, 1998 | 10:54 a.m.

The people of French Oaks, with the present board, would never take advantage of an elderly, ill person in distress.

We have had similar situations on our property. Our board is not a legislative machine or a police force. It is a functioning asset, a protective force, protecting the people first and then the assets.

When one of us, most especially the aged, has a problem, we contact them, family and close friends. We render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is His. Unlike Constantine or the board of Painted Desert, we have a true sense of humanity, which makes us a true community.

An association is a nonprofit corporation with assets. We no longer allow a so-called "nonprofit corporation" of "organized professionals," who consider us as part of their industry, to manipulate or control us. Those who buy into an association have placed their investment in a precarious situation.

The quality of their lives will be regulated by the quality of their board and the so-called "professionals" who indoctrinate, instruct and manipulate it.

If your board has an attorney on retainer, you probably have a problem. If that attorney or a member of their firm is on our list of eight attorneys, most especially the first four on that list, you are at severe risk of corporate raiding, a virtual "Venus flytrap" regulated by the same people who wrote your CC&Rs and trained and educated your clone board.

Wake up, Las Vegas, watch your assets, from your home to your legal fees to your landscaping fees and everything in between, including your roofs.

Call the H.O. hotline, 387-2382.

Phil Testa