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Chinese Drywall Causing Home Owner Headaches

From:
Mr. and Mrs. Loomis
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To: lakeashtontalk@yahoo.com
Who would have thought you would need to move out of a 3 year old home because of contaminated Chinese drywall? With health problems related to the drywall, to say nothing about our clothes picking up the smell permeating the house, we had to leave our home. It was devastating. Unbelievably; however Valerie Baker, who we did not know, offered us a house to use, fully furnished and rent free.

We have discovered that drywall was heavily imported between 2004 and 2007. Usage increased due to Katrina and the building boom. Some of the Chinese drywall was used in Lake Ashton. We hope and pray that its usage was limited. Unfortunately, we are aware of other homes with the problem.

Some people have said to us "we checked our ceiling and its ok so I quess we don't have a problem". Not necessarily. We had checked our ceiling panels above the garage, and came to the same "ok" conclusion. However, our walls have the "bad" drywall." (It isn't easy to take a saw to newly painted walls. We did and we found it).

Since in two months time we have been unable to sit down with management to discuss possible solutions we decided to move ahead with two informational meetings. There is no charge for either session.

On Thursday,Jan. 7th at 2:00 pm in the ballroom at the clubhouse there will be an informational meeting on Chinese drywall. This meeting will include photos of contamination, potential health effects and how we discovered the problem. Questions and answers will be a major part of the program. The session will be conducted by two residents with the problem and a professional house inspector who is familiar with Lake Ashton.

The second important meeting will occur on Tuesday, Jan. 12th at 2:00 pm in the HFC. Attorney, Dan Perry will discuss legal aspects of the drywall situation.

All are encouraged to attend these meetings. "BAD" drywall affects the entire community. The longer the status quo remains, the more publicity there will be with potential negative effects on home values, resales and initial sales.

Please attend and be informed.

Joan & Arnold Loomis
5345 Snead Dr. (now staying at 5320 Hogan)

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3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home.. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers.. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere..' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army.. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens..

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

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Chinese Drywall Problems

Just in. I was told that this issue of Chinese dry wall will not be settle quickly and maybe not at all. It is the home owner responsibility before they bought the home to have it inspected. At that time no one knew there were Chinese drywall in here so they did not check for it. You can also sue the inspector for not doing his job. Many developers took upon them selves to help the home owner and take it out. We have a developer in here that doesn't give a damn. The only way you can get this issue solved is by walking away from the home and let the bank own it. Before you do this you must buy another house so it won't show up on your credit. I'm very sorry to bring you this news, but this is the only way to fixed this problem. Larry Maxwell with all his money doesn't care for residents at all but the money. As of today I was told no one knows where he is.

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TRADER

Why do residents have lunch or dinner at the Lake Ashton Grill? Do they not know that the developer has turn its back to the residents that have Chinese Drywall. He runs this restaurant and he keeps all the profits. Here they are given the developer your business and he is given us the business. Where are you people coming from?????? I can honestly say you are TRADERS to the honest and knowledgeable people of Lake Ashton. Wake up residents and take a stand. How much more can we take? Please call your friends and tell them what is going on here and thank god for people like me that writes the truth as to what is going on in here. No, I don't read the L A Times and I don't go to the coffee meetings and I certainly don't eat in the restaurant. I am sick and tired of people saying why didn't they tell me. This is a very poor excuse.

ONE WAY IN FAVOR OF DEVELOPER

Yes, it is true he can sue us but we can't sue him. Three years ago, two residents tried to sell their home by placing a house for sell sign in their garage. The developer put a lean on their property and they could not sell their home to a buyer until that person settled. He settled by paying a fine to Larry and the other must have done so also. The third person cut back some trees in their back yard and Larry found out about it and sue the owners. Yes Larry Maxwell can sue us but you can't sue him, he hides.

LAKE ASHTON CORRUPT

It took me awhile to make fact that this has got to be the most corrupt place in Florida. Developer won't do nothing, Residents are being force out of their homes, Boat dock is on CDD property, MX and security for life, Developer has sue some residents, Bowing alley was made out of second hand parts, Joe Hunter has destroy the relationship between the resident and the community. Storage fees are way too much, highest in the state of Florida, Roads are cracking and sinking, No records in city hall on the roads and if you take a pail of water out of the retention pond Joe Hunter will be bend out of shape, he is standing on quicksand with his head just above the sand. Yes, this place is very corrupt just like Chicago in the 30's. I got the picture but many resident fail to see it because they are high school drop outs.

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Chinese Drywall

It is now known that the drywall from China smelled and an odor was present before installation, and these nuts still installed this crap in the home. If you have any information on this please e-mail me ASAP This information is very important and will help in the law suit against the builder. lakeashtontalk@yahoo.com

Bingo Paul Pontious is not going to grow up.

Bingo Paul is going around writing Idiot on all my Activities. In the pool room he writes IDIOT on the bulletin Board with my name on it He also writes idiot on the Blog learning site in the main office, This guy is a nut. He runs in the billiard calling me an Idiot in front of all the pool players and goes by my house calling me a idiot and when he plays golf he shouts ass hole to me. Is this all this dummy knows and he is running for the HOA Give me a break. If he gets elected than you will have a idiot who disobey the laws of Florida by having 50/50 or in other words a lottery. This Guy has no respect for the law. The HOA asked him to stop the 50/50 and also the CDD asked him to stop and this nut is telling me it was all my fault. He is standing on quicksand and his head is about to go under. Where does he get his brains from a frog?

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Thirteen homes invested with Chinese Drywall

Now we know why the developer Larry Maxwell belly up his Mastercraft homes company, because he knows how much of this shit drywall he bought by all his receipts, more than the thirteen homes he builted. I believe there are more homes out there that are fill with this crap. You can't trust China. They killed hundreds of pets with their pet food. and now their killing us. There are more drywall news to come. Mr Maxwell, pick up your phone, you can't hide forever. Look at him, he is hiding under his bed. He has not return one phone call to anyone.

All the drywall owners have got together and are in the process of filing a class action suit against the developer. If you ask "Do Nothing" Joe Hunter about the drywall he will say what Chinese Drywall. This guy is sick also. You will never get a straight answer from him. He should go back to washing dishes and pools. This is a sick community with extremely poor management that are being paid very high wages for doing nothing and there are some of you that think he is not paid enough. This community is in a lot of trouble with sick people. They must be living in Chinese drywall houses. Some of them should be locked up and put away for life.

This smell gets in your rugs and in your clothes, anything that is soft its in. Makes you have nose bleeds, have rashes, itch all over, you just got to move out.

Three of the owners walked away from their home and would you believe that there are idiots out there in Lake Ashton who loves the developer, and not only that, they criticize me for giving out this information. I only have one thing to say to them and that is GO TO HELL. Its not funny after all these years you save all your money to buy a retirement home only to find out it is unlivable. If you think this is funny, please E-Mail me so I can tell you where to go. lakeashtontalk@yahoo.com

Larry Maxwell's Dream

There is no argument. He was a visionary. The real questions are : Was it the vision of a beautiful quiet community filled with active seniors living a carefree life? Was it a vision of a community of active seniors making good friends, going to stimulating activities and events without having to drive their cars? Was it the vision of homes with motorhome garages, woodshop, indoor and outdoor pools,tennis courts, golf courses, and an activities office that finds a way to satisfy almost every resident's request? Or was it a vision of a personal gold mine that would forever produce dollars for himself, with unbreakable contracts for services set-up for his own companies in yearly amounts of over a million dollars?
I want to believe the stories that say Mr. Maxwell felt he had made enough money in his life before he built Lake Ashton as his showcase. I want to believe that he wanted to build the first vision. That,yes, he knew he would make money building it. But, did he always have the vision to make it his personal financial kingdom for all time? Was it his vision to take millions of public dollars and misrepresent as a gated community with construction defects in the roads? Was it his vision to create and execute a restaurant contract that allows him to make money without paying all the expenses of that restaurant? Was it his vision to overcharge for management services,gatekeeping, and groundskeeping? Or was the vision just too large and the people he took as partners just poorly picked?
I guess the question here is-Mr. Maxwell, do you have enough money and power yet? Will you step up Mr. Maxwell to keep the first part of your vision alive?
Posted by truthinfreedomofspeech

Destroying this community

Yes, it is true that Paul Pontious, Van Sickle and Schreiber are destroying this community. They all stick up for the developer and it is he that says buy my home and after you buy it screw you. Prove me wrong, read between the lines. I already know of 5 home owners that will be moving out of here because of all this crap. They are now looking for another area to buy.

Who will have to move away from Lake Ashton?

Who will have to move away from Lake Ashton when YOU find out that Ms.Stevens, Mr. Eaton, and Mr. Owens (on behalf of the development group) stalled the defective road issue just long enough for Mr. Maxwell (Senior) and the rest of the developer group to attempt to make enough company changes to protect all their assets?
What about Mr. Schreiber, Mr. Van Sickle, Mr. Pontious, and the Folletts? The record shows that they are all guilty of stalling with their damming statements, lack of action regarding the roads, and their omissions and lack of correction of certain facts while in positions of power.
Will you push them out? Will you cause them to face lawsuits of their own? Will you continue to pay Lake Ashton Management,LLC over a million dollars a year to manage Lake Ashton?
Or, will it be you that has to move.....?
Posted by truthinfreedomofspeech at 5:09 AM

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Margot Steavens

Yes, it was her husband that started the ban on parking pick up trucks in our driveway two years ago that started trouble here at Lake Ashton. She and her husband wanted to tell us what we should drive. I don't tell her what size knitting needles to use.

She also had the guts to fine the home owner if their grass is too long. Can't you see her now on her hands and knees going around with a ruler checking the height of the grass. She was going to suggest this at the meeting but they told her to shut up.

Please Margot resign from the CDD and have your fire chat at home.

Anonymous has spoken

I understand that there is a leach in this community who does not help anyone or even lift a hand to help. He complains about everyone and loves Larry, Joe and Paul. none other than anonymous. He hides behind the name anonymous. He also lives in the basement of the outhouse.

Paul Pontious

Where ever there is money Paul is there. He controls Bingo and the money, he controls Pot Luck and the money, now he wants to control the HOA and the money if he gets elected. Paul why don't you go after the Monday morning coffee money. I am quite sure Larry doesn't mind and while your at it see about all the AD money from the L A Times. Paul are you slipping or are you just eating too much? Why are you spending all your time in the club house, looking for dropped money on the floor?

L A Times

Many residents believe this is the only news we should read. Controlled by the management, its like living in China or Russia. Well we can read this blog for the other side of the news. Thank God we can get the other side of the real truth.