Submitted by several concerned readers
Alleged Attorney that foreclosed for $288.00
Alleged Attorney that foreclosed for $288.00
John Nathan Billings
Attorney in Lexington, KY
Recipient, Corpus Juris
Secundum Award, 1998
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"Nathan" Billings, Member
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$288 in unpaid fees,
homeowner association took her home
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$288 in unpaid fees,
homeowner association took her home
For six years, Ingrid
Boak, who travels a lot for work as a racehorse trainer, ignored mail from her
homeowner association.
Boak, of Lexington,
Kentucky, says the letters were requests for $48 in annual fees for upkeep of
the tidy neighborhood of one-story brick homes. Because she didn't use the
clubhouse or pool, or participate in social activities sponsored by the
association, she didn't think she needed to pay. Last September, while she was
away, a neighbor called to tell her about a handwritten sign tacked to her
front door. It said her house had been sold.
Masterson Station
Neighborhood Association had foreclosed on her $120,000 home because she had
$288 in unpaid dues, according to the association's lawyer, Nathan Billings.
Boak was sent nearly 30 notices before her property was foreclosed on, he said;
the dues were mandatory association fees.
Boak says she does not
remember seeing a foreclosure notice, and no one served her papers in person.
She likens the experience to her father's in East Germany, where the communist
state took away property rights. "Now I'm 75, and the same thing is
happening to me, in America," she says. With her once-good credit damaged,
she is unable to buy another house, and now rents her old one from the new owner
for $900 a month.
The Community
Associations Institute, an advocacy group for homeowner associations, says
foreclosures are a last resort, but also a matter of fairness: Neighbors who
pay shouldn't be penalized by neighbors who don't. "It's a community, but
it has to be run like a business," says spokesman Frank Rathbun.
4 comments:
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