The Texas Homestead Hoax

About the Book

Step into the shoes of a black woman while she takes you through a legal hellhole that has lasted more than thirteen years. The Odyssey began in 1988 when she moved to Kingwood, Texas, approximately 23 miles from Houston. What started as a fairy tale ended up as a realty nightmare, having unknowingly bought into a planned community with foreclosable maintenance fees, her family and she had no idea what was ahead. At closing, she thought they had protected their property.

Find out how Texas' dirty little secret began and how the judges, Community Associations Institute (CAI) attorneys, constable and even HUD are involved in the cover-up in this cottage industry; and it is just not in Texas.

The author, Harvella Jones, President of The Texas Homeowner's Advocate Group, co-founded with her husband Johnnie, in 1996, will give you a bird's eye view of what it was like to lose her homestead after a five-year intense battle to save it and fight to save her mind as well as her life after stress threatened to take both.

It promises to be one of the best documentaries you will ever read from a pro se litigant in the Texas judicial System trying to save a home from a homeowner association foreclosure. It is a 360-page book with over 100 documents illustrating unbelievable legal events, such as the cancelled check for $184.92 the actual amount the buyer paid for her $75,000 homestead property. If you thought Winona Blevins had a bad experience, wait until you read this book!

About the Author

Harvella Jones, a wife, mother of two girls, homemaker and Certified Professional Secretary, suddenly found her family and herself embroiled in a battle to save their constitutionally protected homestead from a neighborhood foreclosure that last five long years.

They eventually lost their home but decide not to stop fighting. She and her husband founded a Texas-based advocate group determined to permanently stop homeowner and property owner associations' ability to foreclose for maintenance fees and deed restriction violations.

Harvella and her husband Johnnie could not find an attorney to represent them in this challenge so they took the task on themselves.

This strong-willed Librian husband and wife team is challenging a multi-billion dollar cottage industry created by self-serving Community Associations Institute (CAI) attorneys. He is retired and neither one has ever been to law school.