David Briel and Nery Ilen Perez-Valdes on a Path to Federal Prison?

Previously this writer presented an argument as to why Jose Lazarus Hoyos and Lilliam Martin should be facing a stint in federal prison. But that was only part of the story.

Before lilliam Martin moved her CAM license and criminal enterprise to 5600 South West 135^th Avenue in Miami, she operated out of an office in Miami Lakes under a company owned by David Briel, Florida Property Management Group (FPMG). Earlier posts here revealed the shady dealings of Briel and FPMG.

After several threats to sue this reporter for previous blogs, still posted here, Briel dissolved his company in July 2016. in doing so, all his “clients” (victims) accounts passed into the hands of Nery Ilen Perez-Valdes under the name of South Florida Property Management and Consultants (SFPM&C). 

Nery Perez-Valdes

Looking into the history of Briel's company reveals much.

Jose Hoyos joined the board of directors of Devon-Aire Villas Number 3 (DAV#3) HOA in 2005. For the first three years he had no officer position, then in 2009 he was listed as the vice-president on the HOA annual report. In the 2012 annual report Hoyos is listed as president of the DAV#3 HOA.

While Hoyos was acquiring the vice-president position at DAV#3, FPMG was conducting business in a very peculiar way. By January 2009 FPMG had become the management firm for four other HOAs in mostly low-income areas. These are Veranda at Miramar, Cutler Gardens, Habitat Villas Community Association and 71^st Byron. Breaking standard practices and probably state regulations, Briel had the mailing addresses of every one of the officers and board members of all but one of these associations changed to his office address at 7100 SW 99^th Avenue in Miami. 

We provide condo contact info and property manager for Verano At Miramar Condo Association. Before purchasing in a condo community or complex you will want to familiarize yourself with their rules and deed restrictions, reserve funds, budget, bylaws, and documents of the association. You should acquire a copy of the condo associations operating financial statement so that you understand how the HOA fees are being allocated and ensure the reserve fund is adequately funded.

Reserve funds are used for large projects such as replacements or repairs within the homeowners association. The funds usually have strict criteria for how they are to be used. The criteria is based on the HOA community rules and regulations, bylaws and accountability. Some examples of reserve fund use are:

1. Roof replacement on common area buildings such as clubhouses and condominiums
2. Repairs on community pools and spas such as new pool pumps, pool heaters, pool deck repairs or refinishing etc.
3. Playground equipment, clubhouse, neighborhood parks, tennis courts
4. Replacing fencing in HOA controlled areas
5. Painting of community association buildings
6. Major landscape projects
7. Construction and major renovations such as sidewalk projects and private roads

Another HOA was added in 2010, The Oaks of North Miami. All of its communications were made to go through Briel at FPMG. The Oaks of North Miami Community Association never had an independent mailing address, because from its inception this HOA had its “primary place of business” listed in an office on Coral Way. 
 

The Oaks sign with missing letters

What this accomplished for Briel was to take absolute control of all communications of the “client” HOAs. Everything pertinent to the HOA had to pass through his office, through his control. A concerned homeowner could no longer make direct contact with a board member unless having had prior direct means to do so.

While Hoyos had maneuvered to become the vice-president at DAV#3, his HOA was also brought under this absolute control by Briel and FPMG. On January 16, 2009, Associated Law Group, acting as the resident agent for the DAV#3 HOA, changed all the addresses to 7100 SW 99^th Avenue so that its communications passed through Briel's control. By May 4, 2009, Briel had taken control of DAV#3 HOA, and by May 24, 2010 FPMG was listed as the resident agent for the DAV#3 HOA.

The Associated Law Group will get special consideration in a future blog, part three of this series. Although its relationship with DAV#3 HOA ended seven years ago, its negative impact remains.

Let's consider the money involved.

Cutler Gardens owners pay $200 per month in HOA fees.

Habitat Villas pay $50 per month, $600 per year.

The owners of units in Verano at Miramar Condo Association pay $230 per month. For its 220 units this adds up to $50,600 per month, and $607,200 in a year.

At 71^st Byron, owners pay $208 per month, or $2496 each year. 

71st Byron Condominium

The Oaks of North Miami Community Association owners pay $208 per month for their HOA dues. Pictures here reveal what the owners get for that money. It's no surprise that David Briel made himself president of The Oaks HOA after taking absolute control. Not only is this a blatant conflict of interest, it is also against Florida Statutes. We would all love to see that contract between FPMG and The Oaks … how Briel justified paying himself as a management firm to his own HOA. 

By the time Hoyos became president to DAV#3 HOA officially, David Briel had absolute control of five HOAs, including the one that Hoyos presided over. The sixth was 71st Byron, with its president, Javier Lopez, working for FPMG. 

We know there have been no financial reports produced for DAV#3 since Hoyos became vice-president of that HOA. Not one. That means that the entire time that David Briel and Hoyos have had control of the HOA funds not a single dollar has been accounted for with financial statements. We know this about DAV#3. Considering the fact that every HOA managed and controlled by Briel through FPMG has been altered so that no member can contact a board member or officer without going through “management,” it's logical to believe that no financial reports exist for any of these other HOAS.

If that is the case, Briel and FPMG were collecting over $1,000,000 per year with zero accountability. That is, until this writer began publishing blogs, and Briel consequently “sold” his business to his accountant, Nery Ilen Perez-Valdes.

But did David Briel really sell anything? 

Or did David Briel merely move his criminal enterprise to another location, near Kendall,  and set up Nery Perez as his manager-patsy to continue doing business the same as before, keeping his name out of the public scrutiny? 

On May 8, 2016, Nery Perez filed with the Florida Secretary of State to change all of Briel's clients to another address, at 5600 SW 135^th Avenue in Miami. It was two months later that new filings announced a voluntary dissolution of FPMG and the formation of a new company, South Florida Property Management and Consultants, managed by Nery Perez. During visits to these premises, Lilliam Martin has been seen, as would be expected because her CAM license is needed in order for Nery Perez to operate as manager for this new company.

If FPMG was sold to Nery Perez, what was the monetary consideration, and how did Perez-Valdes raise that money?

Following the same practices as David Briel at FPMG, Perez-Valdes has changed every address of every officer and director of her “client”(captive victim) HOAs to her address at 135^th Avenue. She maintains absolute control over all funds and all communications held tightly in her fat, grubbing hands. 

And Nery Perez is now the president of The Oaks of North Miami Community Association. Apparently that office was also up for sale along with the rest of the criminal enterprise.

Picnic with tree branches at the Oaks

There is one exception to this absolute control by Briel at FPMG. Javier Lopez has been the president of the 71^st Byron Condo Association since around 2004 or earlier. While working at FPMG, Javier Lopez was the fast-talking excuse guy for FPMG. He would take complaints from residents of the DAV#3 HOA and make excuses as t why there was no simple or affordable solution to the problem. Or, Lopez would arrange for a band-aid over the problem to placate the person with a grievance. Especially, Lopez made excuses about why no one can see the DAV#3 HOA bank statements or financial records: some of the items in the bank statements might be misconstrued as improper. We can't have that. (1-11-2016).

Oddly, or very significantly, none of the officers/board members of 71^st Byron had their home addresses changed to the offices of FPMG or of SFPM&C. Lopez, as president of that association, refused to concede to the Briel scheme to take absolute control of each HOA. Lopez must have known that what Briel was doing was, and is, illegal.

Nery Ilen Perez-Valdes was the accountant for Briel at FPMG. She was and is responsible for producing financial reports, and she is also accountable for refusing everyone access to financial information that Florida laws require be made available to HOA members. This is one way to say that Nery Perez is personablly responsible for multiple violations of Florida Statutes regarding having and sharing records of finances for each HOA she manages. She is, after all, registered with the Florida Secretary of State as the manager of SFPM&C, which has absolute control over five HOAs. Nery is the black hole into which all the money passes.

The Black Hole of HOA funds

This also means that Nery Perez is at the center of the scheme to defraud mentioned in federal laws pertinent to “honest services fraud.”Extortion, coercion and racketeering follow.  

Dear Devon Aire Villas #3 Management Group,

This is the third notice after MANY calls to you to bring to your attention ALL the problems we have in our section:

1.  The entrance sign ever since it was installed it has had its letters falling and missing.  IT OBVIOUSLY NEEDS A HARD GLUE/CEMENT so this does not happen.  ALL THE OTHER SIGNS from the other sections have their letters perfect and have been in perfect conditions since their placement and WE do not understand WHY ours has this problem.  Please see photo enclosed.  it is a simple step that just HAS TO DONE. all the letters need to be re-glued/pasted on permanently.

The Sign that Cannot be Fixed

2.  There is a HUGE, big hole on the main boulevard of 124th AVE  -- On the 'going out' lane.   This is ANOTHER problem as all the cars go on it and besides our tires getting ruined, the HOLE gets BIGGER.  It needs to be REPAIRED immediately.   I truly do not understand what is happening here  AND if anyone from the association even comes to see the conditions and the works that need to be done.  Please see photo here enclosed.

3. THERE ARE STATUES inside the median of this same entrance ( 124th Ave) and those have been asked to be removed many times . I personally told Neri about this and she said she was having them removed AND THEY ARE STILL THERE !!!


4.  Last but not least, I HAVE HOLES IN MY DRIVEWAY, which are getting bigger and bigger and need to be fixed immediately as well.  I have mentioned this to you last year as well. Please come and see it and call me to make the appointment.  Photos enclosed.

Common Holes in Devon-Aire Villas 3

There are also some  houses in bad conditions that need to get painted and fixed.

Please advise receipt of this note with your planned action towards each of the points mentioned.
I have called your office to give you all the site notices and do not think anyone in your office is working for us.  I am trying to help you and to give you a list of things that need immediate attention.


I PAY your company on time and expect to have the services you are responsible for; just like we the homeowners pay our dues to you, you must render and do your duty towards us as well.

It may be that Perez is carrying on the practices of Gerardo Briel, who was the treasurer at FPMG. Perhaps Gerardo was Nery's mentor in crime?

If this writer is correct, and these other HOAs have no financial statements prepared for members, then Gerardo Briel should join the cabal to be investigated by specialists in prosecuting RICO Act prosecutions.

To be continued …

Jose Lazaro Hoyos and Lilliam Martin on the Path to Federal Prison?

You live in a homeowner's association (HOA) community. You know that monthly, quarterly or annual dues are required as part of the costs of living there. Yours might be a condominium or a common-wall town-home; in either case you know that you share the costs of common area maintenance and accept that without a second thought.

At least, until something comes up, like a huge assessment for a special project like a new roof over several acres above your unit. It happens. Some are told to pay that extra $10,000 in ninety days or forfeit their investment. 

 

If you own a unit in Devon-Aire Villas Number 3, you get a bill twice a year from someone in a management company whom you've never met. It's unlikely that you ever will meet this person who bills you, takes your money and disappears. The bills are anonymous; just a corporate name appears, and that comes under cover of an “LLC,” Limited Liability Corporation. 

 

As long as you've owned property in an HOA community you've understood that there are consequences to skipping a payment of dues. It's understood that legal fees, perhaps even loss of the property could be a consequence of challenging an invoice. To be safe, you're conditioned to pay.

It would never occur to you that the company sending you that invoice has no legal right to do so.

Contrary to what the president of your HOA, Jose Lazaro Hoyos, has led you to believe, that company collecting your HOA dues twice a year has no legal contract to touch your money. It gets worse.

South Florida Property Management and Consulting, LLC, (SFPM&C) operating under a Community Association Management (CAM) license issued by the State of Florida to Ms. Lilliam Martin is the corporation taking your money without a valid contract, and unfortunately not accounting for how the money is spent.

This is what the State of Florida requires of Lilliam Martin to keep her CAM license:

468.4334 Professional practice standards; liability.—

(1)  A community association manager or a community association management firm is deemed to act as agent on behalf of a community association as principal within the scope of authority authorized by a written contract or under this chapter. A community association manager and a community association management firm shall discharge duties performed on behalf of the association as authorized by this chapter loyally, skillfully, and diligently; dealing honestly and fairly; in good faith; with care and full disclosure to the community association; accounting for all funds; and not charging unreasonable or excessive fees.

One glaring problem with this requirement is that the governing laws of the Devon-Aire Villas Number 3 HOA require a public meeting of the board of directors in order to enter into a contract. No such meeting was ever held. In fact, as long as Hoyos has been president of the HOA, there have been NO board meetings of record. This is to say, Florida statutes are very specific as to what is required to conduct business as an HOA board, including meetings with written agendas and advance notice to homeowners. Minutes of each meeting must be taken. The problem is, this has never happened under Hoyos. No board meetings have met the requirements of this law, no minutes of board meetings set down, and no records of board meetings are retained for seven years. The management company operated by Lilliam Martin has been in existence less than two years (actually barely one year). Without a single legal board meeting at which a contract could be discussed and approved by the board, it is impossible to have a legal, valid contract with this HOA. Hence there is no “dealing honestly and fairly; in good faith; with care and full disclosure to the community association; accounting for all funds; and not charging unreasonable or excessive fees.”

In fact, it gets worse; SFPM&C merely continues a long-standing practice of zero accounting for all HOA funds. As long has Hoyos has been president not a single financial statement has been made available to the HOA membership. Every attempt to see and obtain records has been denied by Martin, going back years while working under a different corporate name yet retaining absolute control over financial records. More accurately, there are no records meeting the requirements of state laws in existence. 

Under present conditions and past performance as a CAM, Martin should have had her license revoked long ago.

Hoyos claims that Martin's company has a long-standing contract with another three years to go. This is impossible without a valid contract for a single day. Hoyos lies to board members whenever he makes that claim. Of course, he has never shown anyone that contract, after frequent and repeated requests to see it, and expects everyone to accept its terms at his word.

Because of the fact that Martin, as SFPM&C, has no valid claim to the HOA funds, she commits mail fraud every time they send you a bill. Hoyos knows that, or should. It's his fiduciary responsibility to know it. 

 

To accuse a CAM licensee of mail fraud is quite a serious charge. I am aware of that. So I refer to the laws, as they are written.

It's very simple, actually. Under 817.034 Florida Communications Fraud Act.—

(d) “Scheme to defraud” means a systematic, ongoing course of conduct with intent to defraud one or more persons, or with intent to obtain property from one or more persons by false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises or willful misrepresentations of a future act.

a) Any person who engages in a scheme to defraud and obtains property thereby is guilty of organized fraud, punishable as follows:

1. If the amount of property obtained has an aggregate value of $50,000 or more, the violator is guilty of a felony of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(b) Any person who engages in a scheme to defraud and, in furtherance of that scheme, communicates with any person with intent to obtain property from that person is guilty, for each such act of communication, of communications fraud, punishable as follows:

1. If the value of property obtained or endeavored to be obtained by the communication is valued at $300 or more, the violator is guilty of a third degree felony, punishable as set forth in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

Not only does Martin, with Hoyos approval, engage in the scheme to defraud on a consistent basis, year after year, she does so hundreds of times. There are 274 units in the Devon-Aire Villas 3 HOA. Each one is sent an invoice twice a year. Money is collected and spent by Hoyos and Martin, without accountability for a single dime.

And Martin charges $14 per unit per month, with Hoyos's knowledge and approval, while the going rate for far better service and 100% accountability and compliance with state and federal laws is $8 per unit. Neither Hoyos nor Martin can claim to be acting in good faith, or providing the accountability required by state laws. 

 

There are further problems to consider when referring to state laws.

817.155 Matters within jurisdiction of Department of State; false, fictitious, or fraudulent acts, statements, and representations prohibited; penalty; statute of limitations.—A person may not, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the Department of State, knowingly and willfully falsify or conceal a material fact, make any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation, or make or use any false document, knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry. A person who violates this section is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. The statute of limitations for prosecution of an act committed in violation of this section is 5 years from the date the act was committed.

The federal government has successfully prosecuted a number of cases under a definition of “honest services fraud.” The legal jargon can be intimidating, but the simple understanding is that when a provider of a service engages in a scheme to defraud one or more people or companies out of a fair deal, using false statements or pretenses, then “honest services fraud” takes place. It is quite common for honest services fraud investigations to evolve into racketeering charges.

Prosecutions under the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) frequently use violations of the honest services statute,[1] as mail and wire fraud are predicate acts of racketeering; therefore, two mailings or wire transmissions in the execution of honest services fraud can form "a pattern of racketeering activity."[6]

There is no doubt that a systematic process has been set up to take absolute control of the funds of the HOA, and that Hoyos and Martin engaged in this process hundreds of times. Anyone who looks closely into the systematic fleecing of the owners of the HOA and the laws that apply will come to the same conclusion: that Martin and Hoyos are engaged in criminal racketeering.

It gets worse, yet again.

Because it is believed by just about every owner in an HOA that one must pay invoices when received or suffer even greater loss as a consequence of not paying dues, risking high legal fees and even loss of property, each time an invoice was sent by SFPM&C there was fear of dire consequences falling on the owners implied. In short, there was pressure to pay or else. But this meets the definition of extortion, and it further complicates the seriousness of the crimes.

Extortion, which is not limited to the taking of property, involves the verbal or written instillation of fear that something will happen to the victim if they do not comply with the extortionist's will. Another key distinction is that extortion always involves a verbal or written threat, whereas robbery does not. In United States federal law, extortion can be committed with or without the use of force and with or without the use of a weapon.

By barely scratching the surface of the problems with Devon-Aire Villas Number 3 HOA, we can clearly see that Jose Lazaro Hoyos and Lillium Martin have been confiscating owners' funds under false pretenses of a multi-year contract; they have engaged in hundreds of acts of fraudulent billing and receipt of homeowner's funds; they have used extortion to obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars of their victims' money; and they have repeatedly over the past two years refused to provide a single financial statement to account for any of the money taken. It doesn't really matter that much that the whole amount taken, over the previous seven years for which records are required to be kept, adds up to well over $800,000. The amount doesn't matter as much as the fact of its continuous theft and the ongoing commission of serious felonies. 

 

To be continued …

Money For Nothin' and the Chunks for Free

Allow me to introduce you to Anara Feal, perhaps the youngest former corporate president of a real estate company in Florda.

The following document seems to refer to Ms. Feal as "the daughter of the owner of the new management company."

That cannot be certain, for Anara Feal was named as the president of

FPMG REAL ESTATE DIVISION, INC  Principals

President, Director FEAL ANARA
Address 5881 NW 151 ST # 206, MIAMI LAKES, FL, 33014

Treasurer, Director BRIEL GERARDO
Address 5881 NW 151 ST #206, MIAMI LAKES, FL, 33014 

Registered Agent
Agent Name: LAW OFFICE OF RAMON J DIEGO PA (c)
Registered Agent Address: 5001 SW 74TH COURT, MIAMI, FL, 33155 

Description:
FPMG REAL ESTATE DIVISION, INC has been set up 10/13/2015 in state FL. The current status of the business is Active. The FPMG REAL ESTATE DIVISION, INC principal adress is 5881 NW 151 ST, 206, MIAMI LAKES, 33014. Meanwhile you can send your letters to 5881 NW 151 ST, 206, MIAMI LAKES, FL, 33014. The company`s registered agent is LAW OFFICE OF RAMON J DIEGO PA 5001 SW 74TH COURT, MIAMI, FL, 33155. The company`s management are President, Director - FEAL ANARA, Treasurer, Director - BRIEL GERARDO. The last significant event in the company history is AMENDMENT which is dated by 10/21/2015. This decision is take in action on unknown. 

But Anara Feal is also a principle in Blue Star Property Management, LLC.

BLUE STAR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC
Company number L15000193801
Status: Active
Company Type: Florida Limited Liability
Home State FL
Date Of Incorporation 11/10/2015

Principal Address 5881 NW 151 ST, 206, MIAMI LAKES, 33014

BLUE STAR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC Principals
M, G, R FEAL ANARA
Address 5881 NW 151 ST # 206, MIAMI LAKES, FL, 33014

Registered Agent
Agent Name FEAL ANARA (p)
Registered Agent Address 5881 NW 151 ST, MIAMI LAKES, FL, 33014 

BLUE STAR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC has been set up 11/10/2015 in state FL. The current status of the business is Active. The BLUE STAR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC principal adress is 5881 NW 151 ST, 206, MIAMI LAKES, 33014. Meanwhile you can send your letters to 5881 NW 151 ST, 206, MIAMI LAKES, FL, 33014. The company`s registered agent is FEAL ANARA 5881 NW 151 ST, MIAMI LAKES, FL, 33014. The company`s management are M, G, R - FEAL ANARA

Since January 2016 there have been changes in Blue Star:

Registered Agent Name & Address
Martin, Lliliam 5881 NW 151 ST, 206, MIAMI LAKES, FL 33014
Name Changed: 04/25/2016

Now look at the information on Florida Property Management Group:

FLORIDA PROPERTY MANAGEMENT GROUP INC Filing Information
Document Number: P03000063898
FEI/EIN Number: 56-2367880
Date Filed: 06/10/2003
Effective Date: 06/06/2003
State: FL
Status: ACTIVE
Last Event: REINSTATEMENT - Event Date Filed: 10/27/2010

Principal Address: 5881 NW 151 ST, # 206, MIAMI LAKES, FL 33014
Changed: 04/26/2016

Registered Agent Name & Address
BRIEL, DAVID
5811 NW 151 ST, SUITE #206, MIAMI LAKES, FL 33014
Address Changed: 04/26/2016

Officer/Director Detail
Name & Address
Title P: BRIEL, DAVID - 5881 NW 151 ST # 206 MIAMI LAKES, FL 33014
Title T: BRIEL, GERARDO - 5881 NW 151 ST # 206 MIAMI LAKES, FL 33014

Now we can look at an invoice from Blue Star Property Management, LLC to homeowners in Devon-Aire Villas #3 Homeowners Association:

The problem with that invoice, sent three times to all homeowners, is that no one was informed that Blue Star Property Management, LLC has a right to collect annual dues! We can see that the Briels have a shell game going on. There may and may not be a legal contract with FPMG for Devon-Aire #3. That would give FPMG and only FPMG a limited right to collect and manage annual HOA dues, which total just over $106,000 per year. However, along with that opportunity to collect HOA funds is the fiduciary and legal responsibility to account for every penny collected. This is where the shell game begins. Aside from the fact that no homeowner has an obligation to pay Blue Star a dime, Blue Star has limited liability under normal incorporation circumstances. By normal is meant a presumption that Blue Star was not set up specifically for purposes of deception, as a "shell" under which to hide HOA funds and accountability. Yet, all things considered, especially the present ongoing refusal by FPMG to account for a single dollar of Devon-Aire Villas #3 HOA funds, that's exactly what Blue Star appears to be!

The details become obscured by even more murkiness.

On December 10, 2015, some homeowners were begrudgingly invited to look at documents in FPMG offices. They had put in a request, twice, in writing, and were given an appointed time to access files. They brought along an individual to assist in making photocopies. Yet, contrary to Florida Statutes, that third person was refused, and no one was allowed to take electronic images of the documents. Of course that refusal stands in contradiction to Florida Statutes, but staff at FPMG could not care less about following the law. Yet FPMG went further, and sought to punish the third person involved. Accusations flew, and a complaint was filed regarding illicit practice of law. FPMG actually went so far as to persistently pursue punitive measures. The following excerpt from an affidavit from Ramon J. Diego demonstrates how murky the cesspool becomes.

The pertinent statement is:

"My name is Ramon J. Diego. I represent Devon-Aire Villas No. 3 Homeowners Association Inc. as their attorney." 

Diego claims to represent the HOA! As the registered agent for FPMG, he can't possibly be representing the interests of the HOA!

If Diego were representing Devon-Aire Villas #3, he would be demanding that FPMG produce the requested financial records. He does the opposite, defending a petty excuse used by FPMG to withhold those documents.

And by the way, a reminder that FPMG advertises on its website that it produces monthly financial statements and provides these to every homeowner, although no one has seen one as long as FPMG has taken Devon-Aire #3 money.

And, if Diego was ever indeed representing the HOA, he would have been paid a retainer in HOA funds. Is this the case? Does he have a contract with the HOA?

to be continued . . . for an explanation of "chunks for free."

How Dare You ask us to account for Your Money!!!???

The Audacity!

The way those people are carrying on you'd think that it really matters how their money was spent, and who benefitted!

Don't they know it's Politically Incorrect to demand accountability? Feelings have been hurt! They will be sued, using their own money to pay legal fees, of course!

Haven't they even heard what Hillary Clinton says to hard questions on accountability? The answer has to be: "what difference does it make?"

So it is with Florida Property Management Group (FPMG). What difference does it make what FPMG has done with funds from Devon-Aire Villas #3 Homeowners Association, "the HOA?"

The law has no teeth; it is a paper tiger, so they say.

Ask anyone who works for the Florida Department of  Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). They can't or won't do a thing to stop HOA and Condo Association abuses. Corrupt property management companies in Florida bank on this; they take your money, spend that as they please, keep a portion for themselves and expect no consequences to sting them.

So, what difference does it make that a pair of pesky women ask for documentation from FPMG? Maybe FPMG has no records to give? Maybe FPMG won't allow access to records they do have? Nevertheless, FPMG intends to sue a pair of pesky women from Devon-Aire Villas #3 HOA, using HOA funds, for bothering to ask questions and for demanding access to documents in accordance with Florida Statutes.

And they are threatened, for a third time, with a lawsuit for writing this blog, which they do not write!

President Reagan said, "Take down that wall!" And it came down. FPMG says, "Take down that blog!" But this blog won't come down unless FPMG turns over all requested records for Devon-Aire Villas #3, and those records show that FPMG hasn't broken laws.

The not-so-funny thing is that FPMG seems to believe that a pair of pesky homeowners in the HOA are producing this blog. That assumption is wrong, as this writer has stated here before. Actually, this blog represents every homeowner in the HOA community who has signed a recall petition to have the HOA board removed. That is well over one hundred persons, and because the success of this mission will benefit every owner in Devon-Aire Villas #3, we also represent more than 250 owners.

Every property owner in the HOA community deserves to know where his or her money has been spent. They deserve to know who has a contract with the HOA, and for what services. They deserve to know whether or not those contracts and subcontracts were competitive, and whether or not contracts or subcontracts are let to benefit friends and family of people at FPMG or the Board of Directors. As in the earlier post, as a analogy, every homeowner has a right to now how much lunch their lunch money will buy before and after they turn it over to their classroom warden, a.k.a. "teacher."

As far as that paper tiger at Florida's DBPR goes, this writer once worked for the State of Florida in another department. There were limits to our authority. Yet, on several occasions one "rubbed elbows" with persons in law enforcement. Those professionals were very interested in information that indicated a probable instance of "fraud, waste or abuse," or more specifically financial corruption. We were urged to share information in the event a criminal case could be made. Staff at DBPR has that option; to pass forward information about ongoing probable corruption is to serve public interests.

This is an open forum ~ Sue me for that

In a previous post I noted that earlier posts were temporarily suspended in response to extortion in the form of threats to sue innocent persons for supplying information used in this blog.

That suspension is no longer in effect. All previous blog posts have been restore and are available to read below.

Also, I stand by previous and future contentions that crimes have been committed regarding management and mismanagement of HOA funds belonging to Devon-Aire Villas #3 homeowners.

For the record, here is a definition of "Crime" ...

Simple Definition of crime: an illegal act for which someone can be punished by the government: activity that is against the law : illegal acts in general: an act that is foolish or wrong

I would add that people who commit crimes are criminals. A person need not be already convicted of crimes committed in order to be a criminal. The fact of committing the act or acts is sufficient to define a criminal. Most criminals are not ever convicted of crimes they commit.

Everyone who is subject to forced HOA or Condominium fees for the unfortunate circumstance of owning a subject property is very likely providing money to criminals. This is to say, it is exceedingly probable that more than fifty percent (50%) of HOA and Condo Associations in Florida are "managed" outside the confines of Florida Statutes. Having a CAM license does not in any way ensure that your association is managed within the rules of law. Devon-Aire Villas #3 may serve as an example to that.

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