They don’t like my blog called lakeashtontalk.blogspot.com telling the residents of Lake Wales what is really going on in here at Lake Ashton. There are well over 500 business cards in the library so I left mine with all the others. The only problem is that they don’t like me and my Blog telling the residents the news has to what the real truth is in this community. They also accuse me of placing my business card on the golf carts 3 times outside in the parking lot. The last time I was out of state in Boston/Maine when this happen.
They claim my card is subject to their policies, under section 21 that states commercial advertisements shall not be posted or circulated in the amenity facilities. My card does not sell anything but simply tells the residents of this community the truth has to what is going on here, and they ban me for four months. Don’t they know how to read? What they are really saying is shut up Mr. King and shut off the blog or we will be on your back as long as you live here.
Another time the police were called about a AK-47 being in my home. They came over knocking on my door looking for my AK-47. I told them you must be crazy anyhow come on in and please be free to look around. They found no AK-47. The management or the CDD of this community will do anything to shut me up.
When Paul Pontious took over Bingo by force from Jesse Helms, Jesse came him all the money he had approx $11.000. Paul took the money and now its all missing. Paul kept tens of thousands of dollars from the Bingo players and took all his Bingo helpers to a Brazilian restaurants in Orlando by a rented bus. All Bingo helpers get 50% off their Bingo cards. This is illegal. He also went out to dinner many, many times with his friends and paid the bill with Bingo money. He also fill his gas tank with gas and bought food for his house with Bingo money. I have all 5 banks accounts and over 20 pages to prove it. Never gave a red cent to a public charity, never paid his State and Federal tax. He had a illegal 50/50. We hired a Attorney and he was able to get copies of all FIVE bank accounts of Bingo. Yes, thousands of dollars is missing. Also no books of any kind was kept of the winnings of money being taken in or money being spend.
Bingo Paul was able to write a full page editorial in the Lake Ashton Times when it clearly stated only 150 words or less was allowed. Trish Adams is in charge of the LA Times and its who you know. I tried to write a few articles in the LA Times but they were never posted. I had the Elvis show at the clubhouse for charity, Give Kids the world, and wrote about how the people reacted. She did not post it. .
Also the Management, CDD are keeping out refund tax money from the city of Lake Wales of $190,000.00. This money belongs to the residents of Lake Ashton. Not them, us. The Club house is a meeting place and it should not be taxed and we won the case. But we the residents never got our refund. Its being kept somewhere. Some residents have moved out and will never received their refund.
I have done a lot for this community including the ban of herbicides being sprayed in Lake Ashton on April 16, 2008. The Management was advised that they were in violation of spraying herbicides in Lake Ashton. They did not like this. They wanted to kill the weeds in the lake to make it look good for the golf players but they didn‘t care about us eating the fish fill with herbicides. Also when it rains the banks would fall into the stream that feeds Lake Ashton and make the lake muddy. I called the state again and they had to plant bushes and trees around the banks to keep the mud from flowing into the lake.. Now they ban me for 4 months from the clubhouse. Herbicides being in the lake with the fish we catch. What will it do to us years down the road after eating this fish. Remember agent orange? The government said it does no harm. Years latter we found out.
I wanted to give a charity show again and give all the profit to Give Kids The World like I done a few years ago when I had the Elvis show, I gave $1,500.00. To give kids the world. I wanted to put on another charity show but they said you must pay $750.00 for use of the clubhouse. I said this is a non profit charity show. They refuse me. They claim it took away from their entertainment series.
The management and the CDD gets 50% off their meals at the restaurant and why should we the residents pay the rest.
Trish Adams is now in total control of this community, she is related to the developer Larry Maxwell by marriage. And as I understand they are a ruthless group of people that are very hard to deal with. They are dishonest and not truthful.
Out maintenance fees are now reaching $1,900.00 from $800 ten years ago. We have more homes, approx 1,000 and we still have to pay more. This makes no sense. We still have the same old clubhouse.
This community use to have a place for everyone to post our problems called lakeashtonliving.net. Run by June Young and paid by us. They decided to shut us off their web site and now the residents can no longer post their problems.
We have a thing called MX. We have to pay the management for cable and ADT even if we don’t want it.
$72.00 a month. Many of us go north in the winter so we don’t use it. It is a waste of money and we are being force to pay it
I can go on and on with mountains of wrong doings here at Lake Ashton. I have all the papers to back up all my stories. Over 1,000 sheets and still growing, 3” thick.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
Your Friends
Make sure you go to the clubhouse and register your visitors. Don't fish off the bridge. What a hell of a friendly place this is. I am surprise that they don't have a firing squad. How sweet she is Carol Pontious and Tricia Adams. They run this community with a iron fist and you all love it. This place is full of idiots and brain retarded residents. Go to the meetings on Mondays and get a education. Ha Ha Bingo at night so Paul can put money in his pocket and take his friends out to dinner. Give Give Give.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Willys Jeep.
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This is one of the coolest
things I've ever seen! About 8 soldiers pull up on a main street in Toms
River, NJ for a holiday parade. They're in a standard issue WWII type
Willys Jeep. In the span of less than 4 minutes they
completely disassemble the vehicle and reassemble it and drive off in it
fully operable! The idea being to show the genius that went into the
making of the jeep and its basic simplicity.
Fantastic.
Click
below.
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Article Courtesy of The Orlando Sentinel By Lauren Ritchie Published March 18, 2013 Sixteen homes, 16 sets of panicked owners. The residents of a Leesburg subdivision that went belly up during the real-estate bust face a financial dilemma that's the result of greedy investors, a failure by lawmakers to think ahead and maybe the alignment of the planets. Unfortunately, the same the thing could happen to homeowners across Florida. The retirees at the Cottages of Sanders Grove at the Heritage report that they've just had their homeowner-association fees jacked up from $180 a month to nearly $500. And that's just for this year. If they can't - or won't - pay, the association can foreclose on them. And guess who controls the association? The investor who just bought the project. What a clever idea. Raise the rates, and when people can't pay, take their houses. In addition, New Jersey resident and new owner Hans Hsu has found a way to force the homeowners to cover the legal cost of foreclosures and any fight they might want to put up over the higher fees. Here's the story: Pringle Development had just begun selling and building the 182 retirement homes on 58 acres off County Road 48, south of Leesburg, when the real-estate bubble burst. There was one model home, 16 resident-owned houses and a clubhouse. Pringle went out of business, and a bank took control of both the unbuilt subdivision and its homeowner association. The way the association was formed under Florida law - and this is typical of most homeowner associations - the developer controls the board of directors until three months after 90 percent of the homes are sold. Then, seats on the association's board pass to the people who own property in the community. The purpose of the association is to levy fees to take care of the subdivision's common areas and buildings, such as a clubhouse. While the subdivision is being constructed, the developer wants the place to look pristine so that customers will buy. Makes sense. People living there want the same thing, so the interests of the two parties coincide. Lawmakers apparently couldn't imagine a scenario in which they wouldn't. Until now. While the bank controlled the subdivision, residents continued to pay the homeowners association $180 a month, and residents say the bank paid the fees for the unbuilt lots, so the place stayed in semi-respectable condition. Then Country Estates South, whose president is Hsu, bought the subdivision Jan. 30 for about $1.1 million. As the new owner, he also chooses the new board of directors for the association. Over the past month, the new board decided to make some changes in the rules that govern the association. The rules specifically state he can make changes while he continues to control the association. Hsu's board wiped out a provision that prevents the association from raising its annual fees by more than 15 percent; gave themselves the power to meet in Orlando instead of at the community; handed the directors the power to approve or reject any sale in the community and to evict a new buyer who is unapproved; eliminated the veto power of the homeowners over the budget; and established the board as the sole authority to raise fees and direct expenses. As if those changes weren't draconian enough, residents say the owner announced the higher fees to them recently during a "conference call" that amounted to one of his employees holding up a cell phone few could hear. That's when he dropped the news that he wouldn't be paying any fees on the empty lots he owns. He justified that by saying he'd have to cover the reserve for emergencies, residents said. What he did not mention is that one of his new rules eliminated the requirement for the homeowner association even to maintain a reserve fund. So, covering emergencies is optional for Hsu. The full cost of the budget, he said, would be borne by the residents, according to those who attended the meeting. Hsu did not return calls asking him to explain, and staffers at the office of his lawyer, C. John Christensen of South Milhausen in Orlando, said he was on vacation and declined to provide any contacts for Country Estates South. And here's the vicious kick: Hsu threw into the budget a new expense the homeowners have to pay - $10,000 in attorney fees. So, if they decide to fight the higher fees, they'll be funding their opponent's defense. That's just plain wrong. This is not a fancy subdivision. There's a clubhouse where residents say two of the three air conditioners are broken. That's it. There's not even a community pool. Homeowners are furious and terrified, and no wonder. Dick Dekowski, a 67-year-old retired computer programmer, summed it up: "We're sitting here with houses worth zero." Another homeowner, Carol Chastain, said she left the recent meeting because she was so upset she was afraid she would vomit and didn't want to embarrass herself. A nationally recognized expert on homeowner associations, Evan McKenzie, an associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said that across Florida, new investors are taking over associations and increasing the fees. Sometimes, he said, an increase is needed. But this situation, he said, is "very, very nasty." He said he'd never seen a new investor shift the financial burden to the homeowners. "If I were living in one of those units, I'd be getting myself an attorney," he said. And there you have it. A relaxed retirement for folks who worked hard their whole lives just vanished. Now, they're going to have to fight, thanks in part to the power that legislators handed homeowner associations years ago. Just more victims in a long, shameful legacy of land controversies in Florida. When will this state ever learn? Please watch out for our ACTION ALERTS and send e-mails and make telephone calls to your local legislators and the members of the committees these bills are being heard! Warm Regards, Jan Bergemann, President Cyber Citizens For Justice, Inc.
Article Courtesy of The Orlando Sentinel
By Lauren Ritchie
Published March 18, 2013
Sixteen homes, 16 sets of panicked owners.
Article Courtesy of The Orlando Sentinel
By Lauren Ritchie
Published March 18, 2013
Sixteen homes, 16 sets of panicked owners.The residents of a Leesburg subdivision that went belly up during the real-estate bust face a financial dilemma that's the result of greedy investors, a failure by lawmakers to think ahead and maybe the alignment of the planets.
Unfortunately, the same the thing could happen to homeowners across Florida.
The retirees at the Cottages of Sanders Grove at the Heritage report that they've just had their homeowner-association fees jacked up from $180 a month to nearly $500. And that's just for this year.
If they can't - or won't - pay, the association can foreclose on them. And guess who controls the association? The investor who just bought the project. What a clever idea. Raise the rates, and when people can't pay, take their houses.
In addition, New Jersey resident and new owner Hans Hsu has found a way to force the homeowners to cover the legal cost of foreclosures and any fight they might want to put up over the higher fees.
Here's the story:
Pringle Development had just begun selling and building the 182 retirement homes on 58 acres off County Road 48, south of Leesburg, when the real-estate bubble burst. There was one model home, 16 resident-owned houses and a clubhouse.
Pringle went out of business, and a bank took control of both the unbuilt subdivision and its homeowner association. The way the association was formed under Florida law - and this is typical of most homeowner associations - the developer controls the board of directors until three months after 90 percent of the homes are sold. Then, seats on the association's board pass to the people who own property in the community.
The purpose of the association is to levy fees to take care of the subdivision's common areas and buildings, such as a clubhouse.
While the subdivision is being constructed, the developer wants the place to look pristine so that customers will buy. Makes sense. People living there want the same thing, so the interests of the two parties coincide. Lawmakers apparently couldn't imagine a scenario in which they wouldn't.
Until now.
While the bank controlled the subdivision, residents continued to pay the homeowners association $180 a month, and residents say the bank paid the fees for the unbuilt lots, so the place stayed in semi-respectable condition.
Then Country Estates South, whose president is Hsu, bought the subdivision Jan. 30 for about $1.1 million. As the new owner, he also chooses the new board of directors for the association.
Over the past month, the new board decided to make some changes in the rules that govern the association. The rules specifically state he can make changes while he continues to control the association.
Hsu's board wiped out a provision that prevents the association from raising its annual fees by more than 15 percent; gave themselves the power to meet in Orlando instead of at the community; handed the directors the power to approve or reject any sale in the community and to evict a new buyer who is unapproved; eliminated the veto power of the homeowners over the budget; and established the board as the sole authority to raise fees and direct expenses.
As if those changes weren't draconian enough, residents say the owner announced the higher fees to them recently during a "conference call" that amounted to one of his employees holding up a cell phone few could hear.
That's when he dropped the news that he wouldn't be paying any fees on the empty lots he owns. He justified that by saying he'd have to cover the reserve for emergencies, residents said. What he did not mention is that one of his new rules eliminated the requirement for the homeowner association even to maintain a reserve fund. So, covering emergencies is optional for Hsu.
The full cost of the budget, he said, would be borne by the residents, according to those who attended the meeting. Hsu did not return calls asking him to explain, and staffers at the office of his lawyer, C. John Christensen of South Milhausen in Orlando, said he was on vacation and declined to provide any contacts for Country Estates South.
And here's the vicious kick: Hsu threw into the budget a new expense the homeowners have to pay - $10,000 in attorney fees. So, if they decide to fight the higher fees, they'll be funding their opponent's defense. That's just plain wrong.
This is not a fancy subdivision. There's a clubhouse where residents say two of the three air conditioners are broken. That's it. There's not even a community pool.
Homeowners are furious and terrified, and no wonder. Dick Dekowski, a 67-year-old retired computer programmer, summed it up: "We're sitting here with houses worth zero."
Another homeowner, Carol Chastain, said she left the recent meeting because she was so upset she was afraid she would vomit and didn't want to embarrass herself.
A nationally recognized expert on homeowner associations, Evan McKenzie, an associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said that across Florida, new investors are taking over associations and increasing the fees. Sometimes, he said, an increase is needed.
But this situation, he said, is "very, very nasty." He said he'd never seen a new investor shift the financial burden to the homeowners.
"If I were living in one of those units, I'd be getting myself an attorney," he said.
And there you have it. A relaxed retirement for folks who worked hard their whole lives just vanished. Now, they're going to have to fight, thanks in part to the power that legislators handed homeowner associations years ago. Just more victims in a long, shameful legacy of land controversies in Florida. When will this state ever learn?
Please watch out for our ACTION ALERTS
and send e-mails and make telephone calls to your local legislators and
the members of the committees these bills are being heard!
Warm Regards,
Jan Bergemann, President
Cyber Citizens For Justice, Inc. during the
real-estate bust face a financial dilemma that's the result of greedy
investors, a failure by lawmakers to think ahead and maybe the alignment
of the planets.Unfortunately, the same the thing could happen to homeowners across Florida.
The retirees at the Cottages of Sanders Grove at the Heritage report that they've just had their homeowner-association fees jacked up from $180 a month to nearly $500. And that's just for this year.
If they can't - or won't - pay, the association can foreclose on them. And guess who controls the association? The investor who just bought the project. What a clever idea. Raise the rates, and when people can't pay, take their houses.
In addition, New Jersey resident and new owner Hans Hsu has found a way to force the homeowners to cover the legal cost of foreclosures and any fight they might want to put up over the higher fees.
Here's the story:
Pringle Development had just begun selling and building the 182 retirement homes on 58 acres off County Road 48, south of Leesburg, when the real-estate bubble burst. There was one model home, 16 resident-owned houses and a clubhouse.
Pringle went out of business, and a bank took control of both the unbuilt subdivision and its homeowner association. The way the association was formed under Florida law - and this is typical of most homeowner associations - the developer controls the board of directors until three months after 90 percent of the homes are sold. Then, seats on the association's board pass to the people who own property in the community.
The purpose of the association is to levy fees to take care of the subdivision's common areas and buildings, such as a clubhouse.
While the subdivision is being constructed, the developer wants the place to look pristine so that customers will buy. Makes sense. People living there want the same thing, so the interests of the two parties coincide. Lawmakers apparently couldn't imagine a scenario in which they wouldn't.
Until now.
While the bank controlled the subdivision, residents continued to pay the homeowners association $180 a month, and residents say the bank paid the fees for the unbuilt lots, so the place stayed in semi-respectable condition.
Then Country Estates South, whose president is Hsu, bought the subdivision Jan. 30 for about $1.1 million. As the new owner, he also chooses the new board of directors for the association.
Over the past month, the new board decided to make some changes in the rules that govern the association. The rules specifically state he can make changes while he continues to control the association.
Hsu's board wiped out a provision that prevents the association from raising its annual fees by more than 15 percent; gave themselves the power to meet in Orlando instead of at the community; handed the directors the power to approve or reject any sale in the community and to evict a new buyer who is unapproved; eliminated the veto power of the homeowners over the budget; and established the board as the sole authority to raise fees and direct expenses.
As if those changes weren't draconian enough, residents say the owner announced the higher fees to them recently during a "conference call" that amounted to one of his employees holding up a cell phone few could hear.
That's when he dropped the news that he wouldn't be paying any fees on the empty lots he owns. He justified that by saying he'd have to cover the reserve for emergencies, residents said. What he did not mention is that one of his new rules eliminated the requirement for the homeowner association even to maintain a reserve fund. So, covering emergencies is optional for Hsu.
The full cost of the budget, he said, would be borne by the residents, according to those who attended the meeting. Hsu did not return calls asking him to explain, and staffers at the office of his lawyer, C. John Christensen of South Milhausen in Orlando, said he was on vacation and declined to provide any contacts for Country Estates South.
And here's the vicious kick: Hsu threw into the budget a new expense the homeowners have to pay - $10,000 in attorney fees. So, if they decide to fight the higher fees, they'll be funding their opponent's defense. That's just plain wrong.
This is not a fancy subdivision. There's a clubhouse where residents say two of the three air conditioners are broken. That's it. There's not even a community pool.
Homeowners are furious and terrified, and no wonder. Dick Dekowski, a 67-year-old retired computer programmer, summed it up: "We're sitting here with houses worth zero."
Another homeowner, Carol Chastain, said she left the recent meeting because she was so upset she was afraid she would vomit and didn't want to embarrass herself.
A nationally recognized expert on homeowner associations, Evan McKenzie, an associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said that across Florida, new investors are taking over associations and increasing the fees. Sometimes, he said, an increase is needed.
But this situation, he said, is "very, very nasty." He said he'd never seen a new investor shift the financial burden to the homeowners.
"If I were living in one of those units, I'd be getting myself an attorney," he said.
And there you have it. A relaxed retirement for folks who worked hard their whole lives just vanished. Now, they're going to have to fight, thanks in part to the power that legislators handed homeowner associations years ago. Just more victims in a long, shameful legacy of land controversies in Florida. When will this state ever learn?
Please watch out for our ACTION ALERTS
and send e-mails and make telephone calls to your local legislators and
the members of the committees these bills are being heard!
Warm Regards,
Jan Bergemann, President
Cyber Citizens For Justice, Inc.
Regulations
Too many regulations, spy's, and every month in the L A Times don't do this and don't do that. What a hell OF A PLACE TO LIVE. AGAIN TRICIA ADAMS AND CAROL PONTOUS PICTURE IS IN THE NEWS. And lets look at the idiots that give their time to the community, IDIOTS. Yes they are idiots. The L A Times is making a pile of money on advertising and where does it all go????? They should pay them to stuff the paper. No they just want to nickle and dime you to death. You should have free coffee on Monday morning, after all you only there to see the paid advertisers make a speech on their product. Yes you are fools and idiots that go to the stupid meetings.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
TRICIA ADAMS
TRICIA ADAMS IS THE ONLY PERSON IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT LOVES HERSELF. SHE MUST BE FIRED FOR BEING SO UNFRIENDLY TO THE RESIDENTS. SHE IS A WITCHED WITCH WHO FLY'S ON HER BROOM STICK JUST TO GET AROUND. BAN THE COFFEE MEETINGS ON MONDAY. MOST COMMUNITIES DON'T CHARGE ANYTHING FOR COFFEE. THIS COMMUNITY NICKLES AND DIME YOU TO DEATH. WHEN YOU GO TO THE MEETINGS ALL YOU GET TO HEAR IS PEOPLE SELLING THEIR JUNK.
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