I thought it used to be Thursday because if you got bad news you still had to deal with your coworkers the next day instead of giving you time to process.
When I took the CA bar exam, results were released right around Thanksgiving. I passed but my heart went out to those that did not, thinking of the distress of explaining to extended family at holiday gatherings.
For the second article: Interesting that they are saying someone was appointed to a position when they have been working under a temp contract all this time.
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October 2, 2025 12:14 pm
The HOA article is interesting, but would have been better if the guy actually explained how developers are able to keep control of HOAs. Basically, they lie about how many units they really intend to build. The law allows them to control things until a certain percentage of the units are sold. Thing is, if you lied about how many you really intended to build, you will never hit that percentage. And will control things forever. Then you open up a security company, landscaping company, management company, etc. and award yourself very lucrative contracts in perpetuity and no one can do anything about it because you control the board. So you get to sell the houses, and essentially, keep charging the homeowners to live there, forever.
Seems to me even if an HOA is still under developer control, the developer (as the board of directors to the HOA) still owes fiduciary duties to the HOA. Wouldn’t contracting with developer-related entities amount to self-dealing, which is a classic breach of fiduciary duty? If not, that’s very broken in HOA land.
12:14 here, it absolutely is self dealing. But here’s the thing, the developers control the board by appointing it’s members. So sure, you could sue the members of the board, but then what? The developer just appoints more of their people. As they have the right to do until they have sold 75 or 90% of the units (depending on how many units are to be built). And guess what? They will never build 75 or 90% of the units because the plans call for more units then will ever be built. When you are a crook like these guys, you don’t have to worry about fiduciary duties…. That’s for the common people. Not Mr. Rhodes.
First, if the developer keeps losing breach of fiduciary duty cases, they would effectively be providing cash transfers to homeowners, and I’m sure they would just prefer to appoint a real board at that point. Second, I haven’t dealt with a fiduciary duty case in a while but I’m sure the homeowners could get some kind of injunctive relief to require the appointment of neutrals if this is an ongoing issue.
I’ve seen developers in other states record a covenant for the development that requires any subsequent buyer of any of the properties to pay 1% of the purchase price to the developer.
If I’ve been laying due for year, because I believed I was part of the HOA since they started in on me the moment I moved in, and now I learn my house is not technically part of the HOA, do I have to keep paying dues? The community is HOA but not all the homes were annexed into the HOA.
Look into NSC Case No. 74816, Rancho Bel Air Prop Owners Ass’n v Friedrich.
Consider whether you have a case for fraud.
Also, look back at your title report to verify whether your home was annexed or not. I’ve found that a lot of HOAs are terrible at tracking that sort of thing, and may not have included the annexation document in the Sellers package.
What date are the July 2025 bar exam results coming out?
I believe tomorrow at 3:00 PM.
On a Friday?! They used to release results on Wednesdays, if I’m remembering correctly.
I thought it used to be Thursday because if you got bad news you still had to deal with your coworkers the next day instead of giving you time to process.
When I took the CA bar exam, results were released right around Thanksgiving. I passed but my heart went out to those that did not, thinking of the distress of explaining to extended family at holiday gatherings.
Yeah tomorrow at 3:00 PM: https://nvbar.org/february-2025-bar-exam-results-available-at-3-p-m-on-tuesday-may-6/
For the second article: Interesting that they are saying someone was appointed to a position when they have been working under a temp contract all this time.
The HOA article is interesting, but would have been better if the guy actually explained how developers are able to keep control of HOAs. Basically, they lie about how many units they really intend to build. The law allows them to control things until a certain percentage of the units are sold. Thing is, if you lied about how many you really intended to build, you will never hit that percentage. And will control things forever. Then you open up a security company, landscaping company, management company, etc. and award yourself very lucrative contracts in perpetuity and no one can do anything about it because you control the board. So you get to sell the houses, and essentially, keep charging the homeowners to live there, forever.
That’s diabolical.
Seems to me even if an HOA is still under developer control, the developer (as the board of directors to the HOA) still owes fiduciary duties to the HOA. Wouldn’t contracting with developer-related entities amount to self-dealing, which is a classic breach of fiduciary duty? If not, that’s very broken in HOA land.
You cannot really be that naive.
12:14 here, it absolutely is self dealing. But here’s the thing, the developers control the board by appointing it’s members. So sure, you could sue the members of the board, but then what? The developer just appoints more of their people. As they have the right to do until they have sold 75 or 90% of the units (depending on how many units are to be built). And guess what? They will never build 75 or 90% of the units because the plans call for more units then will ever be built. When you are a crook like these guys, you don’t have to worry about fiduciary duties…. That’s for the common people. Not Mr. Rhodes.
First, if the developer keeps losing breach of fiduciary duty cases, they would effectively be providing cash transfers to homeowners, and I’m sure they would just prefer to appoint a real board at that point. Second, I haven’t dealt with a fiduciary duty case in a while but I’m sure the homeowners could get some kind of injunctive relief to require the appointment of neutrals if this is an ongoing issue.
I’ve seen developers in other states record a covenant for the development that requires any subsequent buyer of any of the properties to pay 1% of the purchase price to the developer.
That’s some genius/evil way to get residuals.
That covenant is in certain CC&Rs here also
If I’ve been laying due for year, because I believed I was part of the HOA since they started in on me the moment I moved in, and now I learn my house is not technically part of the HOA, do I have to keep paying dues? The community is HOA but not all the homes were annexed into the HOA.
Look into NSC Case No. 74816, Rancho Bel Air Prop Owners Ass’n v Friedrich.
Consider whether you have a case for fraud.
Also, look back at your title report to verify whether your home was annexed or not. I’ve found that a lot of HOAs are terrible at tracking that sort of thing, and may not have included the annexation document in the Sellers package.
Now lets talk about the cabal like control that NRED gives to John Leach.