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Palacio del Mar, c/o AHRC, P. O. Box 97, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693



Palacio del Mar Lawsuits
Suits against Palacio del Mar Homeowner Association
Case Plaintiff Case # Date Filed
Type of lawsuit
1 PDM LTD 382095 07/08/82
2 W. Van Deventer 491253 06/03/86
3 David Carson 539469 10/30/87
construction defect/overwatering
4 Presidential Heights Assoc. 539837 11/04/87
overwatering/drainage problems
5 Frank Campanelli 557569 05/20/88
construction defect/overwatering
6 Sandra Mettin 559711 06/15/88 construction defect/overwatering
7 Arnold McMahon 570594 10/11/88 construction defect/overwatering
8 Clifford Findley 570595 10/11/88 construction defect/overwatering
9 L.D.Broadnax 570647 10/11/88 construction defect/overwatering
10 Donald Borsack 570648 10/11/88 construction defect/overwatering
11 Virginia Youngblood 573288 11/04/88 construction defect/overwatering
12 Thomas Schlarb 573482 11/07/88 construction defect/overwatering
13 Western International Insurance 591824 05/23/89 construction defect/overwatering
14 Western International Insurance 591825 05/23/89 construction defect/overwatering
15 Western International Insurance 591826 05/23/89 construction defect/overwatering
16 Western International Insurance 591827 05/23/89 construction defect/overwatering
17 Western International Insurance 591828 05/23/89 construction defect/overwatering
18 Western International Insurance 591829 05/23/89 construction defect/overwatering
19 Western International Insurance 591830 05/23/89 construction defect/overwatering
20 Western International Insurance 591831 05/23/89 construction defect/overwatering
21 Western International Insurance 591832 05/23/89 construction defect/overwatering
22 Western International Insurance 591833 05/23/89 construction defect/overwatering
23 Western International Insurance 591834 05/23/89 construction defect/overwatering
24 Gerald Stidham 625005 05/16/90 construction defect/overwatering
25 Union Federal Savings Bank 632215 08/02/90 construction defect/overwatering
26 Arnold McMahon 661153 06/27/91
Association cuts homeowner's tree
27 Arnold McMahon 663633 04/26/91
Association spray-painted homeowner's electric meter
28
 Arnold McMahon
Fraudulent lien foreclosure suit.

Association board amd manager (Diane Fullerton - CAI, founding director CACM, Pat Gummeson, Marquis Management) posted false late charges, hid association finances to conceal records from owners and to keep them off he board.

CHUBB insurance (paid for by owners) paid large sums of money to defend the illegal activities of the board and manager. The insurance lawyers dragged out the case for as long as they could milking the policy and then settled with owner just before trail.

Shortly after the exposures of illegal activities of the managers, they hired CAI lawyer Peters & Freeman to take over the collections and help keep the board keep control fo the assocaition.

David Peters misrepresented to the owners that CCRs needed to be changed for staggered election terms and without telling the owners he deleted the owners right to culmulative voting .

Peters and Freemen has since been give thousands of dollars from lawsuits manfactured by the board in Palacio del Mar milking the association reserves and insurance policies that the owners pay for

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Suits against homeowners by Palacio del Mar Homeowner Association

The only suits filed are against minorities.

Case Defendant Case # Date Filed
Type of lawsuit
1 Eliabeth McMahon xxxxxx 00/00/00
Association demanded double fees for ARC approval
2 Elizabeth McMahon xxxxxx 00/00/00
Association wants to overwater and wants homeowner to remove one line of blocks from homeowner's private wall
3 Floyd Chodash 815650 10/12/99 Association wants to cut homeowner's tree. Homeowner said that board president's Ray Kunkle's wife did not like this beautiful tree and wanted it cut down.

Homeowner claimed he was being discrimminated against because he was Jewish.

Peters & Freeman demanded thousands of dollars in legal fees from homeowner to drop suit.

Suit withdrawn. Association paid Peters & Freeman fees.
4 Elizabeth McMahon Association overwater homeowners lot. Association has put in a massive sprinkler system on unstable hills, has no drainage system for the pools, spas, sprinklers and rain water from the 83 homes in the track.

Several adjacent homes have slipped. The house next door was condemned by the city. Others are constantly having sewer line breaks, gas line breaks.
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