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- HOA sees development issues for Tract 6A (NM) April 1, 2025When the city acquired the remaining 250 acres from Santa Fe Estates in 2020, it became the declarant of Las Estrellas in the Northwest Quadrant. In January, the City Council appointed Jake Garrison, an Albuquerque lawyer, to act as “contractor” to strip Tract 6A, a 20-acre portion of Las Estrellas between South Ridgetop Road and N.M. 599, of its covenants, conditions and restrictions, appoint hand-picked Las Estrellas master and regional homeowners association board members and oversee HOA accounts. Read ...
- Due diligence is a must for Las Cruces condo buyers (NM) March 17, 2025According to a March 12 report from the Las Cruces Association of Realtors, thirty-two condominiums units changed hands between January 1 and December 31 of last year. The final sales prices ranged between $93,000 and $360,000, with a median sales price of $205,000. The median is where half sold for more and half sold for less. Monthly condo association fees were scattered between $60.00 and $318.00. Read the article…………………………….
- Gene Hackman Was Their Most Famous Neighbor. They Rarely Saw Him. March 4, 2025In Santa Fe Summit, the gated community where they lived just east of the city, even some of their nearest neighbors said they had seen no sign of the couple in recent years, except for their trash cans on the side of the road, waiting to be picked up. The couple did not attend homeowner’s association meetings or annual picnics, and their expansive four-bedroom home — on a quiet road called Old Sunset Trail — is hidden even from the ...
- ‘Every place is vulnerable’: North Santa Fe HOA takes on large-scale fire mitigation project with grant support (NM) February 17, 2025A specialist from the Santa Fe Fire Department has walked all over a large chunk of the city’s north side and tied thousands of tags to piñon and juniper trees in recent months, envisioning a new landscape. A green tag indicates a branch that should be cut, while a pink tag indicates the whole tree needs to go. Read the article…………………………….
- Neighbors Vow to Help Fight Santa California Ruling (NM) September 19, 2024Allies and neighbors of a woman who was effectively forced off her land near Abiquiú when a judge sided with her Homeowner’s Association say they will help pay to have the case appealed. Melinda Grogan, a resident of the Santa California Subdivision east of Abiquiú, said a court ruling Oct. 9 by state District Court Judge Sheri Raphaelson rendered her half-acre lot virtually useless by allowing the Association to enforce the subdivision’s rules on her property. The Association, which represents ...
- ‘This is not right’: Albuquerque police investigating HOA president’s paychecks September 10, 2024Members of an Albuquerque homeowner association are now paying much closer attention to what the association is doing with their money. And they want other HOA members to learn from their experience. Fed up with how their neighborhood looked, a few members asked to look at the association’s finances. They wanted to know what their dues were paying for each month. Now, their HOA is under new leadership, as the Albuquerque Police Department investigates suspected mishandling of their payments. Read ...
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- Playing The HOA – A Continuing Study in Audacity (Part III)Mrs. Delinquent*, who owned a unit in an HOA in New Mexico, had stopped paying her mortgage and HOA dues. As a result, she was having her home foreclosed upon by a bank, and the HOA referred her file to Axela Technologies. The collection solution provided by Axela Technologies was working the file to recover the delinquent assessments from the owner in the amount of $17,000 while the bank was pursuing foreclosure on the property. Read the article……………………………..
- HOAs Must Understand Use and Power of ContractsThe board of directors in a homeowners association (HOA) is responsible for the functionality and governance of the community. One of the powers and duties delegated to the board of directors is the power to negotiate and enter into contracts, which is highly significant to the operation and bylaws of an HOA. Read the article………………………..
- According to One Bankruptcy Court, the “Wrangle Over Executoriness May be a Tale ‘Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing’”After a dispute arose between a developer of a subdivision northeast of Albuquerque and a homeowners’ association (“HOA”) over the ownership of certain common areas in the subdivision, the HOA brought an action against the developer seeking to compel it to convey the disputed property Read the article…………
- CAI Best Practices: EthicsSimply put, when someone is employing ethics, he or she recognizes what is right and what is wrong and is choosing to do the right thing; however, as a great deal of business ethics literature will attest, “the right thing” is not always straightforward. For example, most ethical dilemmas in the workplace are not simply questions of “Should Bob steal from Jack?” or “Should Jack lie to his boss?”
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