Tag: change

“No Sale” Property Transfers

December 4, 2020

This happens more often than you think: ownership of a home in Rio Crossing changes, without a sale. Here is a short list of ways that generally happens:

Sometimes a home changes hands without a sale involved
  • The current owners — “real people” — start a trust which is given ownership of major assets, including homes, vehicles, and other valuables. The legal and tax reasons are beyond the scope of this web site, but you can watch a number of YouTube videos from Lee Philips (not an endorsement, just a good resource).
  • Older owners sometimes deed the property over to their kids — again, often for a variety of legal and tax reasons.
  • One company (often an LLC) transfers an asset directly to another company (often owned by a common group of people).
  • A person who acquired the property as a single person later adds a spouse or partner as an owner.

Please Update Contact Information

When a home is transferred without a sale, very often the association isn’t informed. You should contact our community manager with information about any transfer, even if a sale was not involved. Even if the contact information remains the same, we need a copy of the deed. Ownership records are important to the association.

Change of Management Company

December 16, 2019

All members of the association should have received the notice from the new management company by now. If you have not, or if you need more information, please contact PDS (Planned Development Services) at 623-877-1396 for assistance.

Of particular importance is the change in mailing address and account number for your 2020 first quarter assessments, due January 1, 2020.

New Board Meeting Venue

February 23, 2019

We have selected a new meeting venue – and it starts next week! From our web’s Board and Committee Meeting page:

Meetings are now held at the Pine Valley Community Center near Litchfield Road and Palm Valley Blvd.  Drive south on Litchfield Road, turn right on Palm Valley Blvd.  Go west along Pine Valley for about half a mile; the community center is on your left (south side of Palm Valley Blvd).  The facility isn’t that large, so come in the front door and look for signs.

From the Board and Committee Meetings page

Address

There’s a caveat to the address: Some GPS systems have reportedly given a route to the Palm Valley Blvd intersection with McDowell Road. This is incorrect!

Go to the intersection of Palm Valley and Litchfield, and turn to the west. The community center is about half a mile, on the left/south side of the street.

Palm Valley Community Center
14145 W Palm Valley Blvd
Goodyear, AZ 85395

Here is a PDF route map from Rio Crossing to Palm Valley Community Center.

History of Meeting Venues

We met at the Barbara Robey Elementary School for some time. Unfortunately, we had numerous issues of trying to schedule around school closures and working around their special events, not to mention that they frequently failed to unlock entry access to the courtyard to facilitate people getting to the meeting.

We have, on a couple of occasions, even met at the deli patio at the local Basha’s store.

The Mojave Room at the City of Avondale’s Civic Center was a nice facility, and while not unreasonably far, it was a 12-15 minute drive. The other main issue was the cost, since the city charges a premium rate for night meetings.

We had one meeting at the Estrella Mountain Community College campus, but parking was definitely an issue, and the facility, while “nice enough” once we got in, had issues with security access problems, and lack of cell and/or WiFi coverage.