A rug on the again patio.
Cracked blinds.
A grease stain on the driveway.
These are among the issues that led the Grasp Householders Affiliation for Inexperienced Valley Ranch to effective Terry and Dwayne Meeks, a pair who purchased their house within the far northeast Denver subdivision in 2008.
The Meeks would repair the issue and pay the effective. Then they’d obtain discover of one other violation. It went on for years.
Then, in November, the Meeks realized the Grasp Householders Affiliation put a lien on their house and was shifting to foreclose.
The couple thought they owed about $2,000. As an alternative, the debt had ballooned to $17,000 as a result of the HOA needed them to pay attorneys’ charges related to the lien.
“We’re anticipated to pay their legal professionals to take our house from us,” Terry Meeks stated. “Unbelievable. It’s organized crime.”
In March, a rash of foreclosures filed over the previous 15 months by the Grasp Householders Affiliation for Inexperienced Valley Ranch shocked residents and triggered swift condemnation from elected officers and Denver housing advocates. These concerned with Colorado’s housing trade say it’s the proper storm: an aggressive affiliation working in a subject with no regulation. And critics say the foreclosures are predatory of their concentrating on of Black, Latino and Asian residents.
— Full story by way of Noelle Phillips and Saja Hindi, Avisionews
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Vicki Souder, left, and Linda Wilson protest in opposition to foreclosures in entrance of the Grasp Householders Affiliation for Inexperienced Valley Ranch places of work on Friday, April 1, 2022. The HOA filed 50 foreclosures in 2021, almost half the whole of all HOA-initiated foreclosures in Denver final 12 months.
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A Boulder Fireplace and Rescue engine heads in direction of the NCAR hearth because it continues to burn within the foothills south of the Nationwide Middle for Atmospheric Analysis on March 27, 2022 in Boulder.
