Las Vegas, NV -
July 06, 2017The Nevada Commission for Common-Interest Communities
and Condominium Hotels (“Commission”) last week found former community
association manager Leslie White had violated 15 state laws and regulations hundreds
of times and defrauded 34 Las Vegas homeowners associations of approximately
$1,642,451 over a 3 year period by making unauthorized withdrawals from
association accounts. The Commission assessed
administrative fines and fees totaling $1,104,894 and ordered payment of
$1,642,451 in restitution to the 34 homeowners associations.
In September 2015, White surrendered her Community Association
Manager (CAM) certificate, along with those of Audra Collins and Ryon Collin to
the Nevada Real Estate Division (“Division”) after an investigation of their
company, Associated Community Management, found hundreds of violations of law.
The investigation, at the time involving 21 homeowners associations, found that
White and her associates had committed unprofessional conduct and incompetence
by engaging in such activities as applying only one signature on association
checks, signing checks for charges that were not authorized by the
association’s boards, receiving payment for fees or charges not specified in a
management agreement, and performing services without a valid management
contract in place. The Commission
accepted a stipulated agreement on behalf of White and the Collins’ that
accepted the Division’s findings, resulting in the CAM certificate surrender
and the assessment of $41,000 in fines and fees.
After surrendering her CAM certificate in September
2015, Leslie White switched her business name (DBA) from Associated Community
Management to Path Community Management, and hired two licensed community
association managers in October 2015. After documents provided to the Division
by the licensed employees were reviewed, the Division found financial
discrepancies that showed Path Community Management was paid in excess of its
contract for virtually every association it managed. The Division’s review also
found that White was controlling the associations’ bank accounts and financial
records without a CAM certificate. The two licensed employees voluntarily
terminated their employment with the company in 2016 and the Division issued a
cease and desist order to White in August 2016 directing her to stop providing
unlicensed community management services.
During the June 27 Commission hearing, the Division
presented the findings of its multi-year investigation beginning in 2014 which
found multiple violations of law involving tens of associations during White’s
tenure at Associated Community Management, as well as finding hundreds of additional
violations of law, fraud and unlicensed activity when she operated under the
name Path Community Management, all told involving 34 associations. The
Commission fined White $1,014,100 for engaging in management of a homeowners
association without a community manager certificate, $75,000 for hundreds of
violations of NRS and NAC 116 committed, $15,793 for attorney’s fees and the
cost of the investigation and restitution totaling $1,642,451 to the 34
homeowners associations as follows:
Alterra Homeowners Association- $19,592.71
Amber Wood Homeowners Association- $36,535.33
Avignon Homeowners Association- $22,980.36
Avila Court Homeowners Association- $22,980.36
Bella Lago Homeowners Association- $83,900.14
Benton Homeowners Association- $30,485.73
Bonita Vista Homeowners Association- $34,893.77
Brighton Homeowners Association- $35,873.21
Calabria Homeowners Association- $36,353.90
Carmel Ridge Homeowners Association- $42,346.78
Centennial and Lamb Association- $75,958.23
Chatham Hills Homeowners Association- $81,207.34
Cherry Lane Homeowners Association- $81,207.34
Country Glen Homeowners Association- $27,208.24
Crestwood Homeowners Association- $9,000.00
Cumberland Homeowners Association- $26,448.00
Fiore Homeowners Associatin- $78,984.92
Greenwood Homeowners Association- $19,650.00
Hillcrest Homeowners Association- $6,980.00
La Siena Homeowners Association- $56,763.41
Manchester Homeowners Association- $159,495.74
Mesa Verde Homeowners Association- $36,175.54
Moreno Homeowners Association- $91,114.62
Murano Homeowners Association- $62,897.04
Newbury Homeowners Association- $75,795.43
Paloma Homeowners Association- $35,063.94
Pinecrest Homeowners Association- $43,813.86
Sheffield Homeowners Association- $21,971.60
Somerset Landscape Maintenance Association- $15,653.17
Sterling Court Homeowners Association- $53,856.06
Sunrise Valley Homeowners Association- $87,050.91
Terraza Homeowners Association- $32,350.00
Trailwood Homeowners Association- $13,622.50
Whisper Rock Homeowners Association- $59,822.42
The Nevada Real Estate Division has referred the case
to the attorney general’s office for review.
About the Nevada
Real Estate Division:
The mission of the Nevada Real Estate Division, an agency of the
Department of Business and Industry is to safeguard and promote interest in
real estate transactions by developing an informed public and a professional
real estate industry. For more
information about the Nevada Real Estate Division or the Commission
for Common-Interest Communities and Condominium Hotels, please visit http://www.red.state.nv.us/.
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