The Dam East Homeowner Association

As multiple rating become registered their ratings will be averaged together for a composite rating.

Perfect rating 125 to 150. Great HOA

Average rating 75 concern to be taken when purchasing a unit rated average.

Any rating below 75 could indicate problems within the management of HOA.

Following are all the ratings for given HOA.

By: James W Burneson

For: The Dam East Homeowner Association

Rated: 07/18/2007

1 is (LOW) 5 is (HIGH).

1. What is your relationship with your Board of Directors? High or low rating?
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2. How knowledgeable are the Directors of the Bylaws and Covenants?
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3. Do the Directors follow the Bylaws in the management of the Association?
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4. Are the minutes of monthly meetings published in the monthly newsletter or website?
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5. Do the members attend the monthly Director’s meetings?
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6. Does your Treasurer perform the collection of Delinquent Assessments? High rating or does the Association Attorney perform collections Low rating.
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7. Has your HOA/CO-OP made an effort to work with the delinquent members in getting their assessments collected before turning the account over for collection? If yes high rating If no give a low rating.
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8. How easy is it for the membership to review the association financial books?
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9. Are the books/financial records updated and well organized?
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10. What is your opinion of the Property Management Company?
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11. Does the Property Manager control the association or does the Board of Directors runs the association High rating. or Property manager Low rating
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12. Who issues the Transfer Certificates for a sale or refinancing of a Unit, the management company Low rating or the Treasurer of the Association high rating?
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13. Are the fees for the Transfer Certificates paid to the Association (high rating) or the Management Company (low rating)?
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14. Are you pleased with the actions of the ACC.
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15. Is the ACC a friendly committee to work with the membership?
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16. Are the ACC’s rules developed with the membership participation?
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17. Is the ACC fair with the membership and operate within the rules of the HOA?
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18. Does a real ACC committee exists and operates by approving changes requested by owners and votes on violations against members? High rating if yes and low rating if no.
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19. Does your HOA publish a newsletter on a regular bases? High rating yes low rating no.
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20. How easy is it for a member to submit a letter to be published in the newsletter or on the website?
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21. Are elections held open to the membership with candidates elected by the membership or does a small clique of a few control the elections with proxies? Rate high if by the membership low if by a few
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22. Are the membership accounting records maintained and a financial statement provided the membership monthly?
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23. Has your HOA tried to reduce the legal fees charged by the Association attorney?
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24. Has the annual budget been well managed?
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25. Has the management by the Board of Directors been a good influence on the property values of the Association?
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26. Do you or other members feel they are harassed by the Board of Directors or the ACC?
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27. Is the Property Manager a member of the CAI? (Community Association Institute) If yes low rating if no high rating.
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28. Is the Association Attorney a member of the CAI? (Community Association Institute) If yes low rating if no high rating.
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29. Does your Board of Directors manage your HOA by motion and vote of all actions taken at scheduled monthly meetings with a quorum and record their votes in the minutes of all board meetings?
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30. Are your Directors rotated with new members or do they seem to get reelected for long terms. Long terms low rating short terms high rating.
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31. Comments
    This HOA under the management of President Jake Hummel attorney at law has been a major disaster for 8 years. He has run the HOA as a King without approval of his actions by the Board of Directors. He allowed legal fees to be charged member and paid lawyers without Board of Director’s approval. The board functions as puppets under Mr. Hummel’s control.
    
    The books of the HOA are kept hidden from the membership and the 18th District Courts protect the crooked acts of three lawyers who suck the money out of the HOA without board approval. Lawyers Rich Johnston CAI, Tim Moeller CAI and Jeffrey Lane Esq. have receive payments over $280,000 all without board approval.
    
    Collections of Delinquent Assessments are made by the Association lawyer Rich Johnston CAI who is paid monthly in advance legal fees for collections that are charged back to the individual members assessment account. The board has never approved the legal fees debited a members account in 8 years.
    
    These legal fees are commingled with the member’s delinquent assessments to hide the total amount of fees collect by the lawyers. The member charged these fees has no recourse to object to the charges. The HOA is left with collecting the reimbursement fees from the individual members whose delinquent assessment might be $600.00 and the legal fees can reach $4,000 to $30,000. It can take years to pay this amount off and try to keep the delinquent fees from continuing till foreclosure. This CAI organization is the Mafia of the HOA business on a national level. The membership is made up of property managers and lawyers who feed on the members of HOAs in their state. It will take the State Legislature of all States to pass laws that regulate Property Managers of HOAs under the State Real Estate Commission. Yet the lawyers elected to the legislature will fight any such regulation that will deny huge legal fees for lawyer and property manager’s fees now stolen from members of HOAs.
    
    Property manager approved the legal fees charge by the lawyers without Board of Directors approval. Rich Johnston Association lawyer and property manager Earl Johnson work together on over 40 HOAs as a team against the HOA members. Any legal opinion asked about actions of the property manager will never be against the lawyer’s partner.
    
    All Colorado Property Managers of HOAs charge a fee for providing the Certificate of Transfer when an owner needs to sells or refinances a home. This service in all Bylaws require the Treasurer to issue these certificates for a nominal fee (15.00) But the Board of Directors look the other way and without any authorization allow the Property Managers to charge $125.00 per each Certificate and pocket the money. This is called thief without authorization. In fact no Board of Directors can authorize any third party to provide a service and then pocket the money without the fund first deposited in the HOAs General Funds and then a payment for the service to the Property Manager from the General Funds. IRS must investigate how these funds are reported by management companies as income since the payments are made from closings on irregular bases. Easy to go unreported for income tax purposes. Earl Johnson earned $45.000 from 2000 to present.
    
    Annual Elections are held with the proxies preprinted with President Jake Hummel’s name featured so a member doesn’t know who to assign it to Hummel gets the vote.. Mr. Hummel will have to stay president for the next 20 years to keep the books hidden.
    
    This HOA can easily slip into a slum rental HOA if immediate actions aren’t taken to control the management of renters from absentee homeowners who couldn’t sell their home. Can’t sell the home so let’s become first time landlords.
    
    This is the famous HOA that paid Jeffrey Lane $30,000 to get a violation against homeowner Jim Burneson for a jail sentence of 60 days for calling the President a “Tort Twister.” In the 18th District Court of Arapahoe County Mr. Jeffrey Lane runs the entire District when Chief Judge Leopold was in charge. Mr. Burneson was denied his Rights to Freedom of Speech against his Government. New York Times v Sullivan. This violation of his rights is headed to Federal Court for damages.
    
    The lawsuit against Mr. Burneson was handled by a personal friend of Mr. Lane’s named Judge Cross 18th County Court of. He had to recuse himself as judge in this case when he denied 4 motions submitted by Mr. Burneson because Judge Cross did what Mr. Lane told him to do. The other problem was Judge Cross never read the motions when he denied them.
    
    This HOA could be a good one with a new Board of Directors and all legal efforts made to collect all stolen funds from the lawyers and property management companies. Failing that don’t buy here. The assessments are $90.00 amount to cover the money stolen by the lawyers. Assessments without Lawyers and property managers could be $60.00 a month.