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Don’t Lien on Me: The Pala Band Tries to Return to Warner Springs
Ranchowners, Are you happy to know that a dysfunctional Board and Management continue to keep a deteriorating, physically unsafe resort running on your backs and dues of nearly $400,000 per month? The Ranch GM is happy. Housing, benefits, salary, food, drink and what not all being enjoyed. Happy Holidays for that person!! On the backs, and out of the pocketbooks of Owners who have been lied to, deceived and abused for too many years. I personally think the last months and years of the "Curse" on the land is being played out through individuals who have breached all semblance of "Fiduciary Duty" to Owners. From Jon Goldenbaum, David Lowe and Jim Stilwell placing an illegal lien on the Ranch to self serving decision making - the "Curse" is clearly seen as being in the lives and actions of those who advance their personal wants and desires. Truly Pathetic. Now they are placing liens and foreclosing on Owners who have carried the ranch for years - even decades. No amount of rationalizing or covering up can hide the sleaze factor at play... The key question is when will Owners initiate a class action lawsuit and recover the tens of millions of dollars from the guilty parties. Stay tuned. Stay healthy.— December 9, 2010 1:06 p.m.
Don’t Lien on Me: The Pala Band Tries to Return to Warner Springs
Warners1986 has posted some thoughtful views, and I would be interested in hearing firsthand some of his/her opinions on how the Ranch was managed during the last 23 years of his/her employment on the property. The sale is a "messy process" because it has been mismanaged by self serving individuals. I recommend that anyone interested in getting all the facts take the time to read the Douglas Wilson Company's report from 2006/2007. The "interested and capable stewards" warners1986 refers to were ready, willing and able to purchase the ranch over three years ago. One needs to ask why Owners, and everyone associated with WS Ranch, are still dealing with the dissolution of the Ownership some three years later? Why was the Sales Oversight Committee dissolved in 2009? Perhaps these and other questions will never be answered by those who fear transparency and disclosure... Time will tell... Have a Happy Holiday Season!— November 29, 2010 11:45 a.m.
Don’t Lien on Me: The Pala Band Tries to Return to Warner Springs
I recently heard from an Owner that Richard Bye encouraged the Owner to file a small claims action against Mr. Gubler. Mr. Bye still perpetrates his unethical actions against Owners, and should check with legal counsel (Gordon & Rees) before providing ill thought out legal advice as Board President on how to attack Mr. Gubler. If Bye had an ounce of common sense WSRA would not be in the position it is today. By acting as Jon Goldenbaum and Jim Stilwell's puppet Richard Bye has done a tremendous disservice to Owners and the Public over the past 21 months. The Association has not had an Annual Meeting with a Board quorum present since 2008, and this year (2010) there was no effort to have an Annual Meeting or Election of Directors... The cabal must have tired of rigging elections and decided it was easier to become a third world junta! Jim Stilwell recently testified under oath (Vista Courthouse) that he violated the Ranch governing documents - and failed to provide "Due Process" to an Owner (David Barrett). Not the first time for the WSRA Board and Management to violate Ranch CC&R's... Instead of disciplining Jim Stilwell - WSRA spent thousands more challenging Mr. Barrett's small claims win and lost on appeal!! esteban8 was spot on with several points made above... One has to ask if those in this self serving cabal have any integrity or conscience? The situation at Warner Springs Ranch is crying out for transparency and closure at the same time!— November 27, 2010 9:04 p.m.
Don’t Lien on Me: The Pala Band Tries to Return to Warner Springs
Cabernetcounsel, Mr. Bye has been recently telling various Owners the following: 1. The sale could take another year... 2. He is talking to other "buyers" - while WSRA is in a binding purchase agreement and escrow with the Pala Band of Mission Indians. 3. If you stop paying dues (as so many Owners have), then what you owe will be deducted from your sales proceeds. Bye has not seen the courtesy to let ALL Owners know of # 3 above... Sadly - his words and actions contradict one another. Mr. Stilwell also failed to disclose his nefarious efforts to steal an investor away, and undercut the assent process with his own sleazy "management buyout plan" several months before escrow opened with Pala. Not enough time to go into those Los Tuleans who supported USEDC/Callaway and Bill Johnson as "buyers" of WSR Ranch. Someday there will be a book written about the actions taken by those whose actions were so deplorable, so prejudiced, and against all common sense and human decency. Presently tho Owners are still hemorrhaging nearly $400,000 per month to subsidize a poorly managed, ill kept up resort. The irony of Cabernetcounel's comments are that had WSRA followed expert legal advice and pursued a bankruptcy filing the Ranch would have been sold more than a year ago... How logical is it to keep nearly $5 million dollars in your pocket versus subsidizing a failed business model - one that has been incompetently managed and run for years? Stay tuned - we are praying and hoping that right prevails and WS Ranch is transferred to the Pala Band of Mission Indians before long. Pala has been waiting nearly 107 years for their ancestral land, and their patience and perseverance is to be commended. I recommend that all "Readers" plan on visiting WS Ranch after Pala restores the property and spritually cleanses the land. The Pala Band of Mission Indians are the natural stewards to "Preserve the Legacy of the Land" for all of us - and future generations yet to be born.— November 24, 2010 10:25 a.m.