George
K. Staropoli
Mr. Staropoli is an Arizona resident who has been active as a homeowners rights advocate since April 2000. He has appeared before and made presentations to several state legislative committees, as well as has having submitted homeowner rights issues to the media and the public. His opinions and views have appeared in the national media: Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, CNN/MoneyOnline and in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Palm Beach Post, as well as on local TV news and in the Arizona Capitol Times. Mr. Staropoli has been quoted in Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government (2005), AARP Policy Institute Homeowners Bill of Rights proposal (2006), and acknowledged in the Thomson – West legal treatise, California Common Interest Developments – Homeowner’s Guide (2006).
In 2000 he founded and is president of the nonprofit Citizens for Constitutional Local Government, Inc, Scottsdale, AZ, a nonprofit organization seeking to inform the legislators and public about common interest property issues and to expose the prevalent myths and propaganda about carefree living in an HOA. Citizens believes in supporting principles of American democracy.
George has published several books and videos on reforming planned communities and their HOA form of government. He is editor of Buyer’s Guide to Living in a Community Association (2001), and he is author of The Case Against State Protection of Homeowner Associations (2003), reaching a growing audience of concerned people. The author, a veteran homeowner rights activist, makes his case against state government protection of homeowner associations. He documents, using his appearances before the Arizona Legislature, state legislative hostility toward upholding the civil liberties of homeowners with their broad, misguided interpretation of “private contract” prohibitions, and the use of statutes that favor the HOA.
His StarMan Publishing, LLC
produced a 42 minute DVD, Somewhere Over the Rainbow (2004), of the
Arizona Legislative session documenting the loss of homestead protections and
the right of the HOA to foreclose, and a 2 volume, 4 disk DVD series, Homeowner
Rights Advocacy 2006 (2006), documenting homeowner rights advocates at
legislative sessions in Arizona and Texas. HOA videos produced and edited by
his StarMan Publishing organization may be viewed on the YouTube HOAGOV Channel.
Mr. Staropoli was a member
of the CEO Club, NY, NY; served as Treasurer and board member of a Penn. HOA;
and was a board member of the Valley Citizens League, Phoenix,
AZ. He holds a MS in Management from Polytechnic University,
Brooklyn, NY.
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