Month: May 2014

Homeowner accounts are not the board’s slush fund

As seen on the Los Angeles Times: Question: Our homeowner association’s president explained to our board how the budget process actually works. She said: “You start by working out how much you can get out of the homeowners, then you go to the Budget and Reserve Study to figure out how

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El Nino could bring more record-breaking weather to U.S.

As seen on CBS: A giant El Nino is expected this year, new weather models predict. It threatens to change weather patterns around the world, affecting billions of people. An El Nino – meaning in Spanish “the little boy, or Christ child” – is created when the equatorial waters of

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Art dealer indicted in $33 million scheme

As seen on CNN Justice: Spanish art dealer Jose Carlos Bergantiños Diaz helped persuade wealthy buyers to shell out millions of dollars for works he claimed famous masters of modern art had painted. But in reality, U.S. authorities allege, the works he sold as Rothkos and Pollocks were fakes painted

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