We Now Know What the Fake Board/Mammen Junta Has Been Doing For the Last Month--

Putting Together a "News" Letter In a Poor Attempt to Paint Over Their Lies and Mismanagement!

As we've most all been wondering what the Fake HOA Board of Peachtree Village and the equally fake management "company" called "Phoenix" (though it's really just one guy with a very checkered past, named Steven Mammen) has been up to for the last month or so, we now know they were working on their March "News" letter in a pitifully poor attempt to make it seem like all is well...while nothing could be further from the truth!

To begin with, anyone of ordinary reason would think that, by now, after all the revelations about Mammen's fake addresses (5 so far, and now he's announced a 6th one that is supposed to be "PMB 51" [By the way, we're not kidding, regardless of the ironic similarity to Area 51, the supposed, top secret government land where aliens were said to have crash-landed in 1947!!!], his completely empty fake office at the Addison Guaranty Bank building which his "company" never occupied, the fact he has no employees, that he has no other real HOA communities his "company" is serving, that he is very, very, very likely not-bonded at all (so any of our HOA money that he has spending access to is completely UNSAFE), that he has a long history of constantly moving from place to place, constantly changing his phone number and, back when he was in California, running his Phoenix Management Consultants, left a long trail of very irate homeowners in his wake, only to be fired by one HOA Management company after another...and that's just what we've learned so far...now the Fake Board talks like this guy is to be trusted when he, supposedly, soon gets in touch with us about how we can send him our monthly dues!!! Talk about living in some dream world!

Then there is the comment about "finally" getting documents from Proper HOA management and the "release of our funds," but with no explanation as to why the last management company took 2 months to hand over what should have happened by the end of December 2025! Why? Of course, Proper has not publicly disclosed why they decided to terminate their contract with Peachtree Village HOA, but it sure seems like it was far more than a coincidence when they made this decision right after they found out the people claiming to be our latest "Board" were NOT properly elected! No doubt Proper had to have some long talks with their legal council to figure out just how vulnerable they were after failing to properly (no pun intended) vet our "Board" to make sure they actually had the authority to collect and spend money on the behalf of our HOA...which they do not as it turns out! On the one hand, they needed to extract themselves from doing business with an illegitimate HOA board; on the other hand, what to do with our funds (assuming there was any left by Dec. 31, 2025) and our records? Should they just hand over the money and records to people whom they definitely knew by November 2025 were fakes??? Well, if there is any truth to what the Fake Board is now alleging in this "news" letter, perhaps Proper felt is was the lesser of evils to just write the "President" a check and call them over to pick up the several boxes full of our HOA records dating over 40 years, hoping they won't ever have to answer for their role in doing the Fake Board's illegitimate work and making a profit to boot!

Unless of course, they wisely decided to reimburse every nickel they took from us! This would actually make a lot of sense, especially since the Fake Board is now acting like, all of the sudden, they once again have all kinds of money to blow! How so?

Well, is sure seems a bit odd that, suddenly, the Fake Board is making all these promises about finding another "landscaping" company and that they're, again, all of the sudden, going to be responsible for trimming the limbs from the trees on our greenbelt which are hanging below the 14 feet limit set by the City of Plano (in order to ensure fire trucks can pass through our streets if ever it were necessary). Thing is, it took the City of Plano's Neighborhood Services to alert at least one of our neighbors when some of the branches on a tree on her and her husband's land (which is, currently, ceded to the greenbelt, as all of us homeowners in Peachtree Village do to one degree or another) had begun to hang below the 14 foot limit over one of our private and a public street! All we ever heard before was how we supposedly need the HOA so badly in order to make sure our streets and greenbelt are properly cared for, but the reality is they have, for years, if not decades, simply been forking out OUR money like there's no tomorrow to over-priced "landscapers" who did as little as they could while charging us as much money as they could to fatten their bottom line!

And this is in addition to the fact this latest "Board" is STILL completely ignoring the impending water shortage crisis which is going to result in the City telling us we can no longer throw drinking water on all of the water-wasting, foreign crabgrass now covering most of our greenbelt! Regardless of how much the Neighborhood Union has been warning them over and over and over again, they are acting like nobody in our community is on a fixed income (actually, that would be a large percentage if not most of us) and that we can all afford to begin paying double in dues just to keep doing the same economically and environmentally foolish and unsustainable ways!

Which brings us to "PayHOA," and the completely unexplained reason behind the "changed banks," except to falsely blame our Union's founder for Harmony Bank's decision not to do business with Steven Mammen or Peachtree Village HOA a good 3 weeks before anyone from the Union spoke in a very nice way with the very nice people at Harmony Bank to find out where our HOA money was! The reality is that Harmony Bank learned about Mammen's phony, paper-only company, his non existent office, and how the "Board" of Peachtree Village has no legitimate authority to collect or spend our HOA funds! So, what then are Mammen and the Fake Board intending when they talk about having a "bank account" they're waiting to become "active" along with the PayHOA "portal"??? Well, we're already investigating to find out as much as possible, but with what we already know, the whole situation is very fishy to say the least!

For one thing, PayHOA is an online service designed for HOAs that want to self manage and not have to pay enormous amounts of money to profit-driven HOA management companies. If our HOA is going to use PayHOA, then what do we need Steven Mammen for? For our small community, their service would only cost a little over $100 a month, but why, then, fork out another $900 (the figure the Fake Board said they're giving to Mammen every month) just for him to do...what exactly? Since PayHOA does everything a regular HOA management company does (except for sending spy cars to invade our privacy and falsely accuse us of supposed decoration "violations"), he serves no purpose, not any good purpose!

The other problem already evident here is WHO would have spending access from the account PayHOA would presumably deposit money into? If it's Mammen, the guy who for 2 months now has refused to permit a direct inspection of his alleged bond so we could be assured that, were he to misspend, misappropriate or just plain steal our money, we could be reimbursed...most likely, because he doesn't have one, our funds would be at great risk! No one, not even if we had a legitimate Board, should be allowed to collect or spend our HOA money who is not fully bonded, and we should ALL know what company is underwriting the bond, how to get hold of them and how to file a claim in the even our money goes missing...but notice there is NOTHING about safeguarding our funds!

One more thing. Once again, with NO EXPLANATION, the "news" letter just, oh so briefly, mentions the next HOA meeting won't be until MAY, when there is an annual meeting! After going to severe lengths to ban anyone from attending their meetings (unless you are there just to believe whatever they say and to not ask any questions), all of the sudden the Fake Board decided it was better just to retreat into even more secrecy than they had already been doing! The lame excuse about needing 2 months to book a room at the library never stopped them from holding monthly meetings before, that is, before it became clear to them we were finding out way too much about their irresponsible, if not civilly or criminally illegal behavior!!!

As the Fake Board Fully Abandons the Last of Their Responsibilities--Let's Start, Right Now, Taking GOOD Care of ALL of OUR Individual Properties!

In case you haven't yet noticed, the Fake Board has been completely neglecting to take care of our greenbelt areas and, unless they were to do something different, really soon, the plants (mostly crabgrass) will soon grow over the 12 inch limit set by the City of Plano Property Code, as it pertains to "weeds." While we don't know, at this time, if our HOA funds have been completely or mostly depleted, thanks to the Fake Board's unwillingness to tell us the truth about what all they've done with OUR money, and to provide access to the bank account statements to let us see for ourselves how much they misspent (on things like an over-priced landscaper, insurance for buildings which don't exist and a City water meter connected to a delapidated irrigation system that is beyond repair, brought in a fake HOA manager who may very well have his unbonded hands on whatever is left, if any, of our funds) as well as, misappropriated to pay an attorney to the tune of at least $11,000.00 just to cover up their misdeeds...now they've left us in another lurch!

Of course, for so very long, so many of us got used to not having to worry about who cut the "grass" on our greenbelt. Most of us just assumed it was being taken care of. After all, once it started growing in the late winter (like now) or early spring, some guys would show up and start mowing it all down and trimming along the fences, sidewalks and curbs. Many, if not most, of us were tempted to think the greenbelt "grass" was just going to keep getting taken care of indefinitely. But what we're only now beginning to fully realize is that we were being sold a bogus bill of goods!

While all of us faithfully paid our dues every month, which was PLENTY of money for the HOA to RESPONSIBLY take care of all the common areas (like out private "blue sign" streets, walkways, auxiliary parking and the greenbelt), one Fake Board after another invited one greedy HOA Management company after another to gouge us for TENS of THOUSANDS of dollars, all the while doing NOTHING to fill the potholes and huge cracks on our streets, and begin preparations for the impending water shortage crisis that is not a matter of IF, but WHEN! Had the Peachtree Village HOA been using our money wisely, we would have, a long time ago, already converted our greenbelt to beautiful, native, drought-resistant plants that would require no irrigation. Our streets would have no potholes with rebar sticking up. There would be no need to find volunteers to pick up litter, debris and fallen tree branches, and there would be no constant soil erosion covering our walkways with mud every time it rains! But instead of behaving responsibly, the HOA opted for the easiest, short-sighted path! And just before they decided to crawl into a hole of seclusion and greater secrecy just this month, they even had the gall to propose raising our dues by as much as by DOUBLE what they were already wasting and misappropriating!

So, what then is going to happen with regard to all the land surrounding our homes? Well, the first thing is to realize our community is different from many, if not most, other ones saddled with an HOA by their original, tract home builders, in that, the Peachtree Village HOA does NOT own any land! Every inch of what might look like a city park, or city street, a city sidewalk or a city parking space in Peachtree Village are made up of OUR individual, private properties! Maybe you even thought all of our common areas were somehow "public" and, therefore, somebody else was paying the taxes for their upkeep, but NOT SO! In reality, each and every one of the 97 homeowner households that make up Peachtree Village have been paying property taxes on all of the common areas that we, each one, "ceded" to the control of the HOA, and all the money we each gave to the HOA for over the past 4 decades was supposed [This is plainly stated numerous times in our Founding Documents like the DCCRs, By-Laws and Articles of Incorporation] to be used to keep all of these common areas in good shape...but that's not what happened!

We were taken advantage of by one Fake Board after another who brought in greedy HOA management companies who did everything they could to do as little as possible, while gouging our HOA funds for as much as they could take to line their pockets, and now, the current Fake Board, is very likely abandoning completely what little they had been doing for us.

But this doesn't mean there is no way out of the mess the Fake Board has left us with because, as the old saying goes, "If you really want something done right, then you have to do it yourself," because we can remedy this latest problem they've saddled us with by taking back control of ALL our individual properties, and we don't need to, nor should we wait around any longer just to see if the HOA were to suddenly experience some huge change of heart and commit to really taking good care of our common areas going forward. If they had meant to be responsible with our money, that change would have happened already a long time ago!

So, after consulting with the City of Plano's Neighborhood Services and the Environmental Sustainability Departments, we've learned how we can each begin taking care of all of our property and at very little cost, certainly, no more than what we were giving to the HOA, month after month, year after year, only to get so little in return and, now NOTHING!

[If you're not sure what part of the Common Areas is actually yours, you can get a very good idea by simply going to the website for the Collin County Interactive Map [https://gis.bisclient.com/collincad/] and just type in your address.

For example, if all you want to do is make sure not to incur any problems by unwittingly violating the current City ordinance against "weeds" growing over 12 inches, all it requires is taking a weed wacker to your part of the greenbelt, about once a month. Or if you have a large area, maybe just do a little extra mowing than what you already do to the part of your (non-ceded) lawn you've been taking care of all along.

But maybe you'd like to now take this as an opportunity to put your creativity to work, and fine tune your "extra" property so it better represents your personality! We've also learned from the City of Plano's property code (Article One, Chapter 14, Section 14-3, 1 through 11) there are almost a dozen exclusions from the 12 inch high plant restriction! You could plant trees, bushes, flowers or even a garden bed! In fact, there are all sorts of native plants you could sow that flower beautifully every spring and through much of the summer, such as Black Foot Daisies, Blue Bonnets and native clovers that normally grow no more than 6 to 8 inches tall!

Of course, assuming the Dissolution Vote passes, it would still be along time before we could install permanent structures on the land that, ironically, has really been ours all along, due to all the paperwork that would follow a redrawing of our plat lines. However, as long as no permanent structures are installed, the only limit right now is your imagination and what YOU feel would beautify YOUR home and YOUR property!

There Is Now Another Reason to Vote FOR the Dissolution of the Peachtree Village HOA--

The "Board" Cancelled All Open Meetings Until May!

As it stands right now, the HOA "Board" has decided to retreat behind an even larger, dark cloud of secrecy than what had already been the case, by cancelling all monthly, open meetings until May, presumably when they are hoping there will even still be an HOA. But depending on how the Dissolution Vote turns out (and since past is prologue), they are desperately hoping they might fake yet another annual meeting quorum, as they've been doing for the last 20 years!

Though we've yet to learn what all were their reasons for the cancellations, it probably has a lot to do with the fact some homeowners took what they claimed they wanted us to do, when they showed up at their last "open" (not all that open, because the "President" demanded no recordings be made) meeting on January 21st, and tried to get some answers to questions, such as, "What happened to our HOA money?" "Is Steven Mammen actually bonded?" "Why are you still denying HOA records inspections, especially the sign in sheet and proxies from the last annual meeting on May 12, 2025?" Only to get nothing but a bunch of lame excuses and empty answers.

This tells us, more than ever, the 4 persons who are falsely claiming to be on the HOA board of directors plus the person whom they, without proper authority, designated the out of town drifter Steven Mammen as our "property manager," do not want us to know what they are up to! But that doesn't mean we have no idea because, in spite of all their distractions, made up stories and obfuscations, we have been able to find out a lot...and it doesn't look good for them!

For example, the Mammen-Allen Junta (which is what we're now calling the cobbling together of Steve Mammen and the Fake Board, since he is lying about having any other HOA community clients, and only has the 4 persons on the Fake Board as his "clients") was told by Harmony Bank they either could no longer have an account with them or, if they did, THEY, Harmony Bank, closed it! And they did so, not in February, but sometime around early or mid January! We're still trying to find out exactly why they fired Mammen as a client, but most likely it had to do with the fact they found out the persons calling themselves our "Board" and Mammen, whom they they hired to replace Proper HOA Management, have no authority to do any business on the behalf of our HOA...because they were not legitimately elected last May 12, 2025! Had Harmony Bank set up or continued to hold an account in the name of Peachtree Village HOA, it would have been a fraudulent one! Consequently, we cannot have any confidence whatsoever that our HOA money (that is, if there is any left at all) would be safe in the hands of Mammen and/or however many of the Fake Board might also have their hands on it!

The fact is, right now we don't know who has OUR HOA money or where it has gone! Is it in a bank account? If so, in whose name? Our money cannot, not legitimately (if not illegally) be in a bank account for Peachtree Village HOA, so what are they doing, assuming anyone has mailed checks to the TEMPORARY PMB (generic post office mail box) in GRAPEVINE, Texas...of all places, as Mammen told us to do in his recent blame-shifting letter of lies! Is Mammen just collecting checks and depositing them in his personal bank account (again, which would be illegitimate, if not illegal)? How much is whose hands?

That's just it, we don't know, not yet anyway, and this is very likely one of the many reasons why the Mammen-Allen Junta doesn't want to come face-to-face with any more homeowners! They don't even want to let us see the checking/savings account statements from the six months Proper HOA Management was receiving our dues payments, up until THEY fired the Fake Board as their client. Why? Could it be that, as bad as what the "President" reported in January, that there was only about $7,000 left, after they inherited around $20,000 just 6 months earlier, might have been even way less? Maybe nothing? And where did it all go? Well, it must not have been spent in any good way, or else they'd be happy to let us see for ourselves!

If we were to continue to even have an HOA, the only legitimate way for anyone to collect our dues payments is for that person to, above all, be fully bonded (that is, for a bonding company to guarantee that, if said person were to steal, misspend or misappropriate our funds, we would be able to file a claim and get the money back), but only after an HOA meeting is held with the proper 30% or more quorum (29 or more individual households) of homeowner household participants, and then, and only THEN, may the homeowners vote to select someone to have the authority to receive and spend our HOA money. But guess what? Such an HOA meeting has not happened in over 20 years! In other words, the super majority of the homeowners of Peachtree Village have been voting against the HOA, with their feet, for at least a couple decades. This is why the Neighborhood Union is advocating that we just go ahead and make it official--vote FOR the Dissolution so we will no longer have to deal with all of this nonsense, financial mismanagement, harassment and abuse from people who just want to rule over us like little tyrants, and then, we can put OUR money to much better use, as we each, individually see fit!

The following Yelp statements were pulled directly from victims of Steven Mammen's time from when he had a property management consultants "company" in California, also called "Phoenix." There were no positive comments. There are no 2 to 5 star ratings. Read what they have to say, and ask yourself, "Why didn't the Peachtree Village HOA "Board" do any vetting of this guy before hiring him?"

On July 28, 2015, Jason B. Los Angeles, CA wrote:

I would concur with the rest of these negative reviews.
This company essentially brought our HOA into the red, with sweeping and poorly done renovation projects that were not managed and often stalled. This stalling and mismanagement included leaving 5 of our 25 buildings looking as if they were condemned while doing other bizarre and eccentric (expensive) projects with overly close vendors. The former board was also led into abandoning the funding of reserves under their management (a mis-practice now abandoned). Upon the second massive and legally unjustified, "emergency" special assessment, and after being popped again on regular assessments, our community recalled the board that allowed this company to do these things.
However, we (the new board) caught Phoenix Management red-handed burying over a dozen recall voter ballots of eligible voters after the fact, when we compared the list of ballots to the election mediator's records, which included a list of 21 homeowners that Steve Mamen told the mediator not to count. When questioned on this, Steve apologized, but was fired shortly afterward.
Since we took over the board in 2011, we hired a different management company, we re-roofed 25 buildings, repaired the 5 condemned looking buildings, cracked down on non-payers, brought the budget back into sanity, and have done a host of other jobs without raising assessments by one dime. Such was the colossal waste and mismanagement of Phoenix Management Consultants.
Now in 2015, we are forced to redo balconies that Phoenix oversaw and had allowed a close vendor to use rotten wood in the rebuilding of. Avoid these imbeciles like the plague.

On Jan 30, 2014 Shonnie J. of Fullerton, CA wrote:

If I could give NO STARS, I would!!! Little to no communication, NUMEROUS errors, dishonest, very rude with inappropriate and foul language in written correspondence. Basic management duties, like paying bills correctly or on time were not accomplished. I could go on,,,, and on... But will say DON'T DO IT.

ON May, 15, 2017, Shelly T., of Los Angeles, CA wrote:

This management group is terrible, so terrible I am making my very first yelp review about them. They list a phone number that doesn't work, so you can't even get a hold of them if you need something!

On April 1, 2014, John D. of Upland, CA, wrote:

This company is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to property management. Expect to be lied to on a regular basis and if a mistake is made, expect the manager to blame someone else for it. And there's a lot of shady dealings going on behind the scenes. If you need great property management services, look elsewhere!

On Aug 11, 2014, Robert D. of Diamond Bar, CA wrote:

There should have an option for negative stars.... Property owners are making a big mistake by using this disorganized company filled with angry employees. I agree with all the other comments here, the staff needs severe training and angry management. If you want a good laugh, give them a call and listen how bitter the staff are, it's like a circus act. Besides the staff, the property I lived at was not properly taken care of... the grounds were not cleaned up and managed well, the pool always had too much chlorine, and irrigation always had broken sprinklers or they were pointed to the street. Someone go straighten them out.

This next comment posted on Indeed came from a Collections Manager (the person who chases people down their employer says owes him money) who worked for Mammen in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, and even HE wrote on April 3, 2014, that Mammen's Management Consultants was:

Poorly managed and lots of distractions

I enjoy the basic function of my job and have a lot of freedoms however, the business itself is poorly managed with many external distractions. [*] I have ceased seeing myself advance in this environment and I do not envision this business in my future.

* [Might these distractions have been other possible victims of Mammen's predatory grooming of elderly, single women? It seems like a pattern is emerging, one which is consistent with all we've learned so far about Mammen's recent, unquestioned welcome as a "rock star" into a leading role over the Peachtree Village HOA "Board" by "President" Cheryl Allen!}

[Special Note: Unlike Texas, California privacy laws prohibit anyone from doing a criminal record background check (except for law enforcement or at the behest of a court order). But there are other ways to find out about the bad things a person did while in California, such as checking out reports of personal experiences on social media. Likely then, Steven Mammen has been able to get away with the same sort of bad business practices he was guilty of before he moved to Texas, at least until his behaviors catch up to him, such as what happened during his short stay at Proper HOA Management, and the several other companies he bounced from one to the other since 2020.]

More Evidence About Steven Mammen's Horrible Business Record Has Come to Light!

The Fake Board Shatters a Long-Standing Precedent By Appointing a

NON-Homeowner/NON-Resident to Their Would-Be Oligarchy!

As bad as it has been for the last 20 years, during which time the Peachtree Village HOA has not had a legitimately-elected Board of Directors, it was only until last Wednesday night, January 21, 2026 (or at least within recent memory), that an HOA "Board" filled a vacancy with someone who is NOT a Peachtree Village homeowner, NOR a resident! But this is exactly what happened when, after 2 of the most recent Fake Board's "directors" resigned, the remaining three (ironically, suddenly concerned about making sure to have a quorum, so their vote was delayed while the "President" when to find the third "director" who had stepped out) voted to add a certain Pat Beets to their number, a man who has been, apparently, acting as the property manager for one of our actual homeowner's house in Peachtree Village that has been rented out for quite a number of years.

It's not clear, yet, if Mr. Beets is related to the actual homeowner, either by blood or marriage, but even if this were the case, it is still A VERY BAD IDEA TO HAVE A NON-HOMEOWNER/NON-RESIDENT on an HOA Board! This would be bad enough, even if we had a legitimate Board, and even if we had not already learned enough about Mr. Beets, all from his own statements, that are even more disconcerting!

In general, the problem with having an HOA Board director who is neither a homeowner, nor a resident in the community the board is supposed to be taking care of, is how this automatically predisposes him to make bad decisions! Why? The main reason is because, for the fact that he is a complete outsider, he never has to consider for one second that his HOA Board decisions and votes would have any impact on himself personally! He never has to live with the consequences of what he does or does not do!

Let's think about this carefully. Even when a board member who actually owns a home and/or lives in the community where the HOA is located, ignores what their neighbors want, and even goes to considerable trouble to make life very miserable for most everyone, at least they are forced to find some way to gather support from some of the people in the community and to spend considerable time and energy to suppress and manipulate everyone else. After all, their neighbors whose rights they've trampled on might see them, at least on occasion, and they'd have to deal with how they'll look at them, talk to them or interact with them in some way. But in the case of a "director" who doesn't own a home or live in the community, he is free of all these restrictions! "So what if I vote to do things that hurt the homeowners? All that matters is that I GET MY WAY, and I need not worry about looking at anyone in the eye in order to defend my actions!" By having board members who, even if they are power-mad tyrants, because of their proximity to everyone whom they tyrannize, serves as a restraint on their tyranny, but not so for the non-owner/non resident "director"!

Now let's consider what else we already know about Mr. Beets. He has already made it clear, especially when he stood up to condemn the Neighborhood Union and its founder, Rick Lannoye, at the witch trial-styled HOA meeting last December 15, 2025--that he believes HE should be entitled to FORCE homeowners to conform to whatever are HIS SUBJECTIVE VIEWS are, about how a home property should be decorated and maintained...even though he presumes HE IS EXEMPT from such control over the home property he, apparently, manages! For instance, at the December meeting, he angrily denounced Mr. Lannoye for parking 3 vehicles on his property's driveway, at an angle, that ingeniously permits each vehicle to enter and exit without having to move either of the other two! Though this sort of angular parking (often employed by historical downtowns to give the area an appealing, nostalgic aesthetic) does not in any way violate the City of Plano's municipal, residential parking codes, Mr. Beets says HIS personal opinion about what "looks good" to HIM should override what the City says! He was infuriated by the fact a person in the same area where the house is located that he, apparently, manages, should dare park THEIR CARS on THEIR DRIVEWAY, in a way other than the way that suits his personal preference, regardless of how difficult and impractical it is to do so, especially when a family has more than 2 cars!

Oh, but when it comes to the way HE manages the APPEARANCE of the house he is managing, it's another story! For example, for well over a month (perhaps 2), there was a huge pile of very large rocks on the front yard. Were Mr. Beets an actual homeowner, and were the Decoration Police still spying on our homes as they used to do in the early part of 2025, his home privacy would have surely been invaded, photos of his front yard taken and a nasty letter would have been sent to him, demanding he immediately remove the huge pile of very large rocks or else be fined, even as much as $100.00 and, even before that, charged a fine just for the letter being sent!

But Mr. Beets didn't have to worry about anyone being so pre-judgmental and threatening and attacking HIM (thanks to the efforts of the Neighbor Union to put a stop to this sort of abuse)! Most likely, he felt like it was HIS RIGHT to temporarily leave those rocks on the front yard for as long as he deemed necessary, and that it was no one else's business to get on to him about how long it was going to take to remove them...and in a community where RESPECT FOR ONE ANOTHER is rule, he would be right! However, Mr. Beets doesn't operate in accord with the principle of mutual respect, much less, the Golden Rule--Do unto others as you would have them do to you! No, even at the same time he felt is was perfectly fine with having what he, himself, would otherwise judge as a "janky" front yard, he had no problem condemning a neighbor, using the same term, JUST BECAUSE IT WENT AGAINST HIS PERSONAL OPINION! We can, therefore, deduce from what Mr. Beets has already stated, he would have no problem employing a DOUBLE STANDARD in his decisions as a would-be Board director!

And it doesn't stop there! Mr. Beets, in that same meeting, also derided the Neighborhood Union, merely for the fact the title of the group of Peachtree Village homeowners who are looking out for All the PEOPLE of our community, includes the word "union." He condemned the group on this word-choice basis alone because, as he put it, as a former manager of a service where the workers were unionized, he couldn't stand them for it! In other words, Mr. Beets revealed just HOW VERY LITTLE HE THINKS OF WORKING PEOPLE!

Labor unions, (though to be clear, this is NOT what the Peachtree Village Union is) have done more than any other type of organization to ensure workers receive a decent wage and benefits large businesses would never have otherwise provided for their tendency toward greed and exploitation. But Mr. Beets, clearly, feels it's quite OK for workers to be exploited! So, what does this tell us about the way Mr. Beets feels about the vast majority of the people who live in or own a home in Peachtree Village...who are WORKERS? A LOT!!!

Since Mr. Beets holds such a dim, condescending view toward the vast majority of the people of Peachtree Village, it's no wonder he was drawn to put himself forward as a candidate for the Board of Directors of our HOA, an institution which has come to embody CONDESCENSION toward homeowners, in that, HOAs are specifically designed to treat them as LESS THANs, and unworthy of the right to have real control over their homes, even though it is THEY who WORK so hard to buy their homes, and PAY FOR EVERYTHING related to their upkeep!

However, the good news is the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union is ready to deal with any of the condescending, invasive and hypocritical decisions Mr. Beets is likely to make, for as long as he is a part of the Fake Board! He can make a lot of THREATS, of course, just as the other 3 remaining "directors" have been doing for a very long time, but that doesn't mean they can carry them out! We need only be aware of our rights and not allow any of the threats these "directors" make lead us to be afraid of them and to capitulate to their tyrannical control. As we refuse to allow them to intimidate us into submission, at least, not any more, this is exactly what has made them so furious and frustrated!

They could, of course, abandon whatever it is in their hearts and minds that leads them to feel they just have to tread over others, and were they to do so, maybe then they wouldn't be so overcome with anger, hate and frustration. We hope some day they will, but until that happens, we will continue to let them know they are NOT going to frighten, intimidate, abuse and trample over us, not any more!

Find Out the Latest Round of LIES Mr. Steven Mammen, the One Man Paper Only HOA Management "Company" He Calls "Phoenix," Telling Us More Than Ever We Cannot Entrust Our HOA Money and Records to This Very Shady and Untruthful Guy!

ALERT--Don't Fall For the Fake Board's False Assertion We Have to Get Permission From the Decoration Police (the "ACC")!!!

As we reported on extensively before (see the Article below entitled "The HOA Board CHANGES THEIR STORY A SECOND TIME, ON THE RECORD, JUST SO THEY CAN CONVINCE THEMSELVES THEY HAVE A ZOMBIE ACC"), the Fake Board made several attempts last summer to make their own selections for a Fake "Architectural Control Committee," the "ACC" or Decoration Police, a group of 3 persons who, many years ago, demanded Peachtree Village homeowners get THEIR permission before they made any changes to their homes or property landscaping or fencing, now the Fake Board, in their January "news" letter, had the gall to state "Don’t forget to get approval from the ACC before you start! All changes to landscaping, etc. are subject to ACC regulations," even though this committee has long been defunct! Because the HOA permitted homeowners to make changes or additions to their home property, either passively or actively for many years (decades actually), this precedent now makes it impossible, even if an ACC were properly revivified by an election of the homeowners (not even a legitimate Board can make their own choices about who may be on an ACC), for any Decoration "ACC" Police to turn right around and prevent anyone else from making any similar changes or additions to their property without subjecting the HOA to charges of discrimination! Whatever authority a long defunct ACC may have had in the past, it exists no more due to the principle of Abandonment and Waiver.

Of course, what the Fake Board is desperately hoping for, is that Peachtree Village homeowners will simply believe their false assertion, and beg for the permission from a non-existent ACC to make changes or additions, while the Fake Board does all it can to prevent homeowners from understanding their homeowner rights! This manipulative tactic, often used by corrupt government agencies, is known as the Assertion Method--making statements presented as a fact, often in an authoritative-sounding manner, all the while lacking authority and truth. The manipulator implies that the statement requires no explanation or support and should be accepted without question. Combined with suppression of all other voices who would hold them accountable for their actual behavior, the manipulative Fake Board hopes to get people to submit to them, even though they don't have to!

Instead, the only permission any homeowner may need to get, if they want to make any substantial changes to their house, yard or fence, is from the City of Plano (If you are contemplating making any substantial changes to YOUR home or surrounding property, but you're not sure if it may have an adverse safety or health impact, please just give the City of Plano's Neighborhood Services a call--972-208-8150--just to be sure. They will either tell you it's fine for you to go ahead with your plans or why certain changes are unsafe or unhealthy or that it's OK as long as you get a City Permit, just to make sure the job is done right!) The City of Plano does have some rules about what certain changes or additions are permissible, but the reason they do so is for the purpose of ensuring SAFETY and HEALTH, both for homeowners and their neighbors. These municipal rules (though there are some outdated exceptions which need to be removed) are REASONABLE, because they RESPECT homeowners' fundamental right to determine for themselves what their homes, yards and fences should LOOK LIKE! Decoration choices belong to each and every homeowner with respect to the property THEY OWN and PAY FOR, not a small group of control freaks who think they should have control over the decoration choices of others!

While it's doubtful the Fake Board or any persons who are FALSELY pretending to be on a Zombie ACC would have the nerve to approach any homeowner with any sort of THREAT because you did not get their (completely unnecessary) permission to make any changes or additions...if they try, please let the Neighborhood Union know right away (call or text 972-379-8910)! Document any such threatening contact, and make sure to retain any letters, emails, phone calls or any other sort of communication, so we can hold the HOA and the Fake Board fully accountable for this REAL HARASSMENT!

Please Report HOA Abuse, Threats or Harassment at: 972-379-8910

If someone from ANY HOA or someone claiming to represent an HOA has accused, threatened or harassed you, or if you suspect someone from an HOA or representing an HOA is or has been spying on or stalking you at your home, or if you have received an HOA fine letter or an HOA letter threatening you with a fine, please don't hesitate to call the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union at 972-379-8910 ASAP to get the resources you need to assert your homeowner/lessee rights and no longer be an HOA victim!

You have rights! Don't let Peachtree Village HOA or any HOA intimidate you into thinking or feeling like you don't!

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Reach out to us for support in protecting your homeowner/lessee rights and enhancing your individual freedoms to manage YOUR HOME. If, for example, you receive threatening letters from Proper HOA management or if you see any of their employees or anyone else representing the HOA, like the so-called "Architectural Control Committee," spying on you, taking photos of your home and writing down their highly subjective judgments, please let us know right away. If possible, get photos of these meddling, invaders of your privacy, and forward copies of any threatening letters demanding you pay "fines" or "fees," such as, demands that YOU pay for LETTERS THEY SEND, (an unethical and ILLEGAL practice called "Fee Stacking").

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