Unpaid Dues, Fines, Foreclosures, Bankruptcy + Embezzlement

• More Homeowners Associations Victimized (VIDEO)

• ASSOCIATIONS TAKE TITLE TO PROPERTY AFTER FORECLOSURE?

• Homeowner evicted due to past due homeowners association fees

• Homeowner may lose home to delinquent HOA fees

• Conflict questions arise about law firms representing HOAs, banks

• Treasurer steals $90,000 from local homeowners association

• Ex-HOA treasurer accused of theft

• Woman accused of stealing thousands from HOA

• Former deputy accused of stealing thousands from HOA

• Foreclosed over $250: A local family's nightmare

• Florida carries burden of 30 percent of nation's shadow inventory

• Homeowner challenges HOA in court

• Another renter evicted by homeowners' association

• Has a Pasco County HOA gone too far?

• Canceled foreclosure sales saddle neighbors, HOAs with expenses

• Tampa cleans unkempt yards when homeowners, banks don't

• Readers offer to help Korean War veteran facing foreclosure

• Homeowners association pursues extreme option -- foreclosure -- against Korean War veteran

• Boca Raton family could lose home for forgetting to pay HOA assessment

• HOA Forecloses on Jacksonville Beach Home For Unpaid Dues

• Grandmother nearly loses condo to foreclosure after $4.70 fee balloons to nearly $3,000

• Palm Beach County's surplus of empty homes creates unexpected market

• Woman says homeowners association wrong for selling home

• Brandon couple caught in HOA foreclosure

• Experts: Pinellas lawyer takes foreclosure fight to ethical edge

• Sen. Fasano wants to close loophole on homeowners associations foreclosures

• Real estate investors beat the banks to profit on foreclosures

• Foreclosure fees haunt homeowner associations

• Collection fees bury homeowners late on association dues

• HOA foreclosures climbing as associations seek 'revenge' on delinquent homeowners

• Homeowner associations often on outside looking in on foreclosure cases

• Disputed foreclosure ruling could bog down courts

• Homeowner associations step up foreclosure filings

• OUTRAGEOUS LATE CHARGES INCREASE NUMBER OF FORECLOSURES

• Number of vacant homes increases in Pasco County

• Invalidated foreclosure sales ruling could ripple

• Housing Pain Pits Neighbor Against Neighbor in Florida 

• The Foreclosure Mess: Florida Judges Can Do Better

• Preventing theft by property managers is tough

• Woman accused of stealing $2 million from Palm Beach condos

• Trapped in foreclosure maze, homeowners say banks went after the wrong people

• CLOSURE IN BOCA RIO EMBEZZLEMENT CASE

• Cracking down on board theft

• Man Says HOA Seized His Home Through Foreclosure

• MORTGAGE TERMINATOR? OR MORE LIABILITY FOR ASSOCIATIONS/OWNERS?

• UNPAID DUES AND FORECLOSURES -- AND NO END IN SIGHT!

• Economy Challenges Homeowner and Condo Associations

• Man's home sold out from under him in foreclosure mistake

• Former Largo woman gets eight years in $1 million embezzlement scheme

• Florida’s High-Speed Answer to a Foreclosure Mess

• Florida renters could be forced to pay for deadbeat unit owners

• Homeowner fights foreclosure in lawsuit claiming documents are fraudulent

• Homeowners association battle threatens homes

• Manatee HOAs wielding power of foreclosure

• PREACHING ONE THING, BUT LIVING BY ANOTHER?

• Pinellas properties management worker pleads no contest to felony grand theft charge

• New rule says banks must prove ownership before foreclosing

• Former condo manager accused of fraud

• Associations using reverse foreclosure to get fees from banks

• Felon treasurer no help for community's woes

• Property manager's new home is prison

• Desperate condo, homeowner groups given new way to grab overdue fees

• Sailwind Condo Assn. loses money to embezzler

• Pinellas County homeowner, condo groups haunted by theft case

• Woman pleads guilty to embezzlement of $856K

• Bank of America forecloses on house that couple had paid cash for

• Foreclosures hit Brevard condos, associations hard

• Miami judge grants reverse foreclosure

• Largo woman had help stealing from homeowner groups, lawyer asserts

• Homeowners groups feel economy's pain, too

• Florida leads U.S. in foreclosures

• HOA Threatens Foreclosure Over Fees (VIDEO)

• ANOTHER EMBEZZLER BEING PROSECUTED?

• Agent accused of real estate fraud at center of bizarre condo foreclosure

• Leisureville bookkeeper makes off with $8,000, audit finds

• Embezzler gets 10 years in prison, 20 years probation

• Landlord's financial problems has family facing eviction

• Are banks skewing the real estate market?

• Boynton Beach police charge former HOA president with stealing $166,646 from condo ass.

• Buxton Properties' grand deficit sends condo, homeowner associations scrambling

• Lenders' latest foreclosure strategy: waiting

• Legacy Park HOA Files for Bankruptcy

• Foreclosed homes: Forsaken and now frightening

• Davenport Subdivision Legacy Park Files Chapter 11

• Foreclosures in Wellington among highest in county

• Ruling Clears Way For Condo Assoc. Fee Collections (Video)

• Banks Leery of Lending in Some Communities

• Neglected foreclosures leave a mess for neighbors

• Home foreclosures: South Florida foreclosures still surging

• Woman accused of bilking association of $484,196

• Housing fallout: Couple denied access to community where they live

• Lawyer has strategy to fight foreclosures, and shares it

• Condo association accounts plundered (VIDEO)

• FORECLOSURES AND HOW THEY AFFECT HOMEOWNERS 

• Foreclosing Isn't Just For Lenders These Days

• HOAs cry foul over foreclosures

• Homeowners face foreclosure for bushes, fees (News Video)

• Police: St. Pete Condo Complex Manager Bilked Association

• FORECLOSURES IN HOAs: GOOD BUSINESS?

• HOA Lawyer In Risky Business

• Homeowner's fees leading to foreclosures (VIDEO)

• FORECLOSURES IN HOAs: THROWING GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD?

• Neighbors Kick Family Out Of Home

• Almost homeless over $100

• Homeowners Trash Foreclosed House After Channel 9 Shows Up

• Economic struggles impacting HOAs (VIDEO)

• ASSOCIATION ATTORNEYS ASK LEGISLATORS FOR HELP -- AGAINST INCREASING FORECLOSURES

• Foreclosures force homeowners associations to skimp

• HOA General Manager Admits To Stealing Money -- Ventura Country Club HOA, Orlando 

• Orange County subdivisions are facing Bankruptcy! (VIDEO REPORT)

• Homeowner's Associations Raising Fees Due To Foreclosures (VIDEO)

• Fee threatens foreclosure of 74 homes in Stonebridge Landings

• Entire Neighborhood Faces Foreclosure Over Association Fees (VIDEO)

• Association treasurer charged with theft

• Manager gets 3 years probation for fraud

• Glynn woman admits fraud -- Manager embezzles funds

• Homes can be lost over missed payment

• Home, sour home -- Miami Gardens

• FORECLOSE ON YOUR NEIGHBORS! BEAT BANKS TO THE PUNCH!

• Foreclosures put added burden on association-run communities

• 'Mistake' costs family its home at The Springs

• Judge rejects proposed settlement in condo collection lawsuit

• Riverview woman nearly loses house over paperwork error 

• Lauderhill law firm to settle lawsuit over foreclosure threats for $250,000

• Law firm to settle class-action suit over lien filings (Katzman & Korr )

• When a Home Isn't Safe -- Foreclosure in Florida

• Lawmakers Should Set Rules To Protect Consumers

• FORECLOSURE -- Small debt can spiral into loss of home

• Liens filed for cable TV debts -- Weston

• Bill comes, house may go while he's deployed -- Villages of Lake St. Charles

• Judge broadens class-action suit against law firm - FDCPA violation

• Bookkeeper pleads guilty to grand theft at Boca firm

• HOA Foreclosures - FOX 29, Palm Beach County

• Boca accountant arrested in theft of $185,000 from homeowner groups, Boca Raton

• HOA Foreclosure in Palm Beach County - MELEAR POD, Boynton Beach

• Woman's property foreclosed over $63.50 fee - Kingsland Country POA - Ocala

• HOAs accused of using abusive debt-collection tactics - Landings on Cypress Greens HOA

• Carrollwood Couple regains home lost at auction - Tampa

• HOA punishes homeowners by revoking use of gate guard - North Lake Maintenance Ass.

• Former board member owes $ 7,000.00 in legal fees - Plantation of Carrollwood

• Boardmember charged with Grand Theft - Melwood Oaks HOA, Bradenton

• Homeowners in legal bind over maintenance fees - Huntington Maintenance Association