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When I first heard about this story, I told myself this can’t be true.  But today as I drove home, I heard a story on NPR that not only proved it was true, but it pissed me off.

The story is about a family in Texas who lost their home when the home owner’s association foreclosed on the house for back HOA dues.  Oh and by the way one of the family members was a Captain in the Army National Guard on active duty, deployed in Iraq.

The NPR Story.

Yes the last part pisses me off the most.  Coming from a military family, knowing what our service men and women sacrifice to give us our freedom, I find it very offensive.

But here’s what really concerns me.  This family had the house PAID FOR.  The American Dream – owning your own home was true for them, the owned the house completely.  And, here’s what get’s me – they lost the house over a mere $800.  I don’t know what led to the $800 being owed to the HOA, but come on.  A $300,000 house getting stolen for $800?

What’s even better: It’s my understanding that this kind of stuff is supposed to be illegal.  Because in 2003, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act was passed by Congress to protect our service men and women from just this sort of thing.

I mean really, don’t you think they have enough to worry about than forgetting to mail a check in a war zone?

This is a crying shame and I hope that when the case does come to trial that Mr. Clauer rapes the HOA and gives them a taste of what he has been going through.  This kind of thing simply SHOULD NOT happen!!!