Unlike a Good Neighbor...
Scottsdale Hilton Casitas - the HOA from Hell!!
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A story so bizarre it is almost unbelievable.
Unlike a Good Neighbor... Scottsdale Hilton Casitas - the HOA from Hell!!
“Unlike a good neighbor” is about a group of homeowners in the Hilton Casitas condominium development (located behind the Scottsdale Hilton Hotel) who dared challenge their HOA's and neighbors' moronic notion that the land underneath their homes is worth the same as land on the commercial corner of Scottsdale and Lincoln Roads, and that the homeowners should pay the same ground rent rate as the commercial property owners pay.
“Is the value of an acre of commercial land on the corner of Scottsdale and Lincoln Roads equal to that of an acre of residential land one eight of a mile away?”
The story involves imbecilic homeowners who don’t mind paying too much ground rent; the maniacal HOA presidents who ignored state law and conflicts of interest to keep their neighbors paying too much; State Farm who supplied the greedy lawyers to take positions against the homeowners’ interest. The HOA president, owner of casita 11 and a State Farm agent, who not only approved and supported, but committed perjury so that the State Farm provided lawyer taking the position below in the ongoing lawsuits which makes the casita subleases defective:
“Hilton Casitas [Council of Homeowners, an Arizona nonprofit corporation] was not a party to the 1999 subleases and never assumed any obligation under those subleases; nor could it have assumed any such obligation pursuant to its governing documents and Arizona law, as the subleases involve privately owned property and not HOA property.”
How can it be in the casita owners' interests to have defective subleases? Had the neighbors, who dared challenge the HOA, prevailed in the trial court, all the casita owners would be paying less ground rent as acknowledged by the Sublessor’s lawyer:
“Indeed, the Plaintiffs had, consistently in their settlement demands, sought to have the [Sublessor] agree to redo the rent for all 29 Casita owners, not just the four that are parties to this litigation.”
Instead of supporting lower rent, the HOA president and the imbecilic neighbors, blinded by spite against those who challenged all of those insisting on paying higher land rent, chose to damage their own properties. A classic case of cutting your nose to spite your face.