Do you realize that you and I – and every one of the 30 one bedroom owners (36% of all units) at Deer Ridge – are currently being overcharged by 82% every single month? And, Luther Parker, the “board” president, said in a recent board meeting that he believes that this 82% overcharge for 1-1 owners is “fair and equitable!”
Do you also know that all the 2-2-Loft units should be paying 50% MORE each month – but are getting a free ride on the checkbooks of all 30 of the 1-1 owners? Does that sound “fair and equitable” to you?
A February 12, 2010 independent, written, legal review of GGRC documents shows that all 1-1 Owners are ALL being overcharged by at least $2,350 each and every year. For me, this adds up to more than $11,000 in overcharges since I bought here. How much have YOU overpaid, in total, over the years, for your home at Deer Ridge?
How many more months, and years, do you want to be wrongly overcharged like this?
Would you like to immediately change this monthly bleed from excess charges? With your help, we can probably force a permanent change on this overcharge within the next 60 days.
What The Attorney Says
Based on the February 12th independent attorney review of our Master Deed and Bylaws, his written legal opinion is that the amount of monthly assessments for EVERY Deer Ridge owner is WRONGLY calculated.
The “board” has applied what the attorney calls “arbitrary and capricious” cost allocations for ALL charges currently being paid by ALL 1-1 owners at Deer Ridge. This includes your monthly HOA fee, the amounts for water, cable TV, telephone AND the calculated amounts that are being charged for this “special” assessment. Our monthly HOA fee for all 1-1 owners should be $148 per month instead of $270 – and our share of water and cable TV should be $62.73 instead of $136.42 each month.
These overcharges for ALL 1-1 Owners add up to $2,350 / yr.
Also, on top of that, this means that even if the current “special assessment” was valid, each 1-1 owner at Deer Ridge should be charged a total of $2,156 instead of the currently billed $3,400 – an additional overcharge of $1,244!
So, JUST over the next two years, the “board” wants to overcharge you and me and all other 1-1 owners $5,944 – assuming we have to pay anything for the “special assessment.”
That’s not how much you have to pay – that’s JUST the overcharge!
Folks, that is almost $6,000 STOLEN out of your bank account by Joe Thomas, Luther Parker and the rest of the “board” during the next two years!
Could you benefit from holding on to that $6,000 that rightfully belongs to you?
The attorney says that ALL assessments MUST be in accordance with the Master Deed Percentages. Hence, any amounts currently being charged to you each and every month is wrongly calculated!
You can read the full, five-page legal opinion by clicking Legal Opinion.
Help Us Get A Declaratory Judgment And Injunction To Change YOUR Monthly Fees Now
Instead of each of us continuing to pay this outrageous, illegitimate monthly overcharge, we need you to join with us in obtaining a court ordered injunction to legally STOP this illegitimate “special” assessment and get a declaratory judgment from the court that will force this “board” to finally abide by our Master Deed and Bylaws.
The “board” has made it clear that they will not voluntarily abide by the recent legal opinion. So, they leave us no choice – but to take legal action to get a court to force them.
To get an injunction, we need to file a lawsuit asking the court to rule on the same interpretations of the GGRC Master Deed and Bylaws that the attorney reviewed. We need your help with the legal fees that will be required to stop this assessment – and also to have the injunction and declaratory judgment provide for the full and complete return of “special assessment” monies paid in by owners who have already paid.
We ask that each owner join with us and contribute $1,000 to cover legal fees and court costs to finally get this stuff resolved. If you can only do half of that amount or even less, those contributions would also be helpful and appreciated. This ongoing overcharge will not change without this lawsuit.
Our goal will be to also have the lawsuit go after recovery of all of our legal costs so those monies may be repaid to the owners who are willing to stand up and fight this fight. You can pay via credit card by clicking the Donate Button below – or mail a check to me at A-202, at Deer Ridge. Please make the check payable to the escrow account, “Deer Ridge Litigation Fund.”
This $1,000 legal fund contribution is a LOT cheaper than you paying the $5,944 in overcharges over the next two years that Luther Parker thinks is so “fair and equitable” for YOUR 1-1 unit.
Any unused, or reimbursed, legal funds will be returned, pro rata, to those Deer Ridge owners who contributed to the fund.
Judge For Yourself
I have my opinions about things. Luther Parker and the “board” have their opinions. Here, for the first time, we have a LEGAL opinion from an independent attorney about what is really happening with your investment at Deer Ridge. The “board” has not shown any comparable, independent legal opinion. I am not an attorney – and neither is Joe Thomas or any member of the “board.”
And, just because Joe Thomas and Luther Parker say something is so – does NOT make it so – especially in light of an independent legal opinion clearly stating what they say is NOT so!
I invite you to read the entire five page letter from Senior Partner Lewis Howard, Jr. at the law firm, Howard and Howard (www.howardhowardlaw.com/).
Also, read my open letter to Luther Parker and the “board” titled “Independent Legal Opinion: GGRC Board Guilty Of Numerous Violations / $353,500 Assessment Is Null And Void” and judge for yourself and reach your own conclusions.
Questions / Want To Help Block The Assessment And Lower Your Monthly HOA Fees?
Please contact me ASAP at litigation@deerridgeowners.com if you would like to help stop YOUR %%325
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Time really is of the essence on this!
As a One Bedroom Owner, don’t let Joe Thomas and Luther Parker overcharge YOU $6,000 during JUST the next two years!
It is past time to stop this “ongoing abuse of power” so that all of us One Bedroom Owners can start paying only our fair share for Deer Ridge.
Please contribute today to the “Deer Ridge Litigation Fund.”
Tags: Luther Parker, board members, HOA lawsuit, Board of Directors, Deer Ridge Mountain Resort, gross negligence, Joe Thomas, Fire Joe Thomas, bad management, Larry Ohm, HOA fees, wasted money, bad investment, Asinine Assessment, master deed
The Board and Joe are fighting so hard to fight Robert because there is way too much they want to hide in this administrator book (if they even have the book).
I saw historical documents from 2009 that prove the income of RML is much closer to $254,780 and that is before all the RML expenses. So it is total baloney from the board and Joe about how RML carries GGRC. GGRC clearly has carried RML for years and our home owners association fees pay to carry this company for the few who are taking massive paychecks from it!
Why is it that Luther Parker is now getting massive upgrades to his unit? Is this a coincidence – or is this upgrade for Luther’s unit paid for by your assessment dollars?