Shocking NEWS

I am SHOCKED !!!Did You Hear, it’s Official

Lincoln County PICKS Big Corporations over YOUR RIGHTS.

The Wilderness Club WINS !!!

Apparantley, Judge Michael Prezeau ruled that instead of ONE MILLION DOLLARS in punitive damages, the WILDERNESS CLUB has to pay ONLY $25,000.

What do You Folks think of this?

This Does Not Seem Right to Me.

You ALL should LEAVE Lincoln County, BIG corporation, even, FOREIGN owned corporations can COME into YOUR neighborhood and Do what they want. NO BIG DEAL.

Will this Decision create a Public OutCRY or will the Residence of Lincoln County, as usual, hide safely in their own homes and NOT stick up for their neighbors.

THIS is WRONG.. you WILL be wronged next. It does not matter what your covenants are in your neighborhood, a Wilderness Club Type can come in and do what they want.

They VIOLATED a court order to STOP building and NOTHING made them STOP, they are Seriously Above the Law. But YOU are NOT.Trial By Jury, WHY ? if the decision is in no way final than why bother.What Good is a Trial if a Judge can Say, oh Nevermind.

The Wilderness Club Was TOLD to STOP working on the building, nothing happened to them.

They kept building on it, they got to keep their building.

A Jury awarded them Punitive damages but apparantley their life is only worth $25,000 .

Why have a jury if a Judge can say, well no that is excessive.

Shocked is an UNDERSTATEMENT.

Whats YOUR Life Worth ?

Will This Go to the Montana Supreme Court ?

Eureka attorney Amy Guth, representing the McKays, said the couple has filed a motion asking Prezeau to reconsider his decision."The Montana Supreme Court has been pretty stern in reductions of punitive damage awards when they are given by a jury," she said. "(But) that doesn't mean in this case they won't say the judge was right and the jury was wrong."

Guth said the McKays also have filed a motion with the high court to stop Wilderness Development from further impacting their property.

Whitefish attorney Sean Frampton, representing the developer, said he believes Prezeau made the right decision in lowering the punitive damages.He had argued that state law prohibits jurors from awarding punitive damages based on covenant claims, and the only "tort," or civil wrong, the jury thought the developer had committed was cutting down trees.

The McKays lost more than TREES, they were in CONSTANT stress, loud noise, dust, harassment, their horses had bright lights on them all the time, generators ran 24 hours, traffic was horrific, they LOST everything they worked for and Frampton says that the only “tort” was cutting down trees.

BULL….In May 2007, Wilderness Development cleared out trees on the McKays' property and cut a road across their land leading to a maintenance facility for the club.

Guth asked that the work be stopped, and Prezeau issued a temporary injunction against the developer in July.

A month later, Wilderness Development cleared more trees and poured the foundation for the 14,000-square-foot maintenance building, court records said.

ABOVE THE LAW ? You Decide !!!

The McKays went back to court in early fall and asked Prezeau to stop the construction project. The judge said the developers could do what was needed to protect what they had already built.The developers then finished the building, which was "well out of sight of the Wilderness Club homes, but right in the face of the McKays," Guth has said.In March, Prezeau ruled that the Wilderness Club had violated the subdivision's covenants and set a trial so a jury could determine damages.

On April 4, the jury awarded the McKays $350,000 for the value of the property and another $6,500 for the value of the trees cut. Jurors also found Wilderness Development had acted with "malice" and ordered $1 million in punitive damages.Now this Has ALL Changed.
Start Asking Questions Folks. Lincoln County NEEDSBig Corporation for Big Tax Dollars.You Lose !!!

Why Does Mr. FRAMPTON get to Decide what the McKays Life is Worth?
I Respectfully ask "Does Mr. Frampton have more Balls and More Backbone than
than Ms. Guth" Is this part of the problem.

Wilderness Club Montana

Well, according to My Sources the Wilderness Club Montana GETS to Keep their Building. They finished the building, saying they had to in order to protect the foundation. Even though they were ordered to STOP construction, they knew that if they continued that there would be too much value in the building and the Judge would let them keep it. That is what they were banking on and that is what has seemed to of happened, according to my sources.

So what this means to you is that ANYONE with enough money can move in next to you, violate your covenants, cut down your trees, break into your home, shoot your dog, cause SEVERE property erosion on your borders, take the VALUE out of your property that you have worked a lifetime to build, harass you, violate your property rights and ignore a court order telling them to Stop. You may get some sort of damages but you WILL NOT get your life back. You will not get your dog back. You will never get the real VALUE out of your property.

I thought that if you violated a judge’s order that you were in contempt. I guess I am wrong on that. Joe Purdy and the Wilderness Club claim that the neighbors gave them permission to cut down their trees and build a giant road. It has been said to me that Joe said he was going to cut down the trees because he could. They were not given permission of any kind. They simply cut the trees down, took them away, and built a road to build a LARGE hideous building that violates the covenant and ruins lives.

The property next to the Commercial Building was once a place of sanctuary, with trees blocking neighbor houses and noise. Now there is a huge amount of dust, the trees have been removed without the landowners permission, there is constant light and noise, there is constant traffic, and the stress is absolutely unbearable.

The Wilderness Club has ruined the lives of hard working local residents and for what ?

For a Building, to house chemical fertilizers to keep a luxury, private golf course green. A building put here so as to ruin the adjacent landowners property values while keeping this “maintenance building” out of site of the homes in the Wilderness Club Resort, thereby making sure the NICE homes do not have to look at this building while making the landowner not part of their exclusive club, look at the building – suffer the noise and dust and 24 hour lighting.

Apparently the “High End” homes are given more rights to a good quality of life than those who have lived here a lifetime.

It is Simple Wrong.

Why can’t the Wilderness Club Montana just do the Right Thing.

And why doesn’t anybody seem to care? Is Eureka Montana so desperate for this resort because we need the taxes that we will literally ruin people’s lives to make it happen? I guess so.
IF You Buy a Lot or a Home in the Wilderness Club Montana than you are basically saying It is ok to ruin peoples lives, it is ok for Big Money to violate property rights and do whatever they please regardless of the law or what is ethically right.

If you have money than your version of the Truth seems to hold more weight than what actually happened. This is what seems to be true for the situation with the Wilderness Club Montana.


What Happens Next.

Starting April 1st there will be a trial to determine what damages the neighbors have suffered. They will never get their life, as they new it back. And they will never get the price for their real estate that it would have been worth had the Wilderness Club Golf Resort not ruined their property value. I personally would not pay a dime for that property and neither would any client, (real estate buyer). Why in the world would you want a home where you front yard is caving in because of a giant road to the back side of resort is to close and undermining your property, where a giant heating and cooling system is so loud you cannot here the crickets, where lights blare 24 hours a day, where you live in the woods but do not have any trees for a buffer between houses, and people are constantly in your front yard with machinery to maintain an elite resort. No Way, I could not sell this property for any price.

There is absolutely no doubt that what the Wilderness Club has done in this situation has severely hurt the property values of the adjacent landowners and all they seem to care about is their bottom line. As a real estate broker owner, I care about people’s property rights before – during and long after their real estate transaction. And what the Wilderness Club has done is inexcusable period.

Keep in Mind folks, Fair Market Value is different than appraised Value. Just because a property will appraise for a certain price does not mean that anyone will buy it for that price.

In Conclusion, ask yourself – Who Will move in next to you and Take away Your Lifestyle ? Lets hope it is not property that Joe Purdy of Montana Properties is in charge of or property purchased by the Norcal Group out of Calgary Alberta, or really any Big Business – you can bet you will have no rights.

Wilderness Club Golf

the Wilderness Club STILL ABOVE LAW

the Eureka Montana Golf Course ResortContinues to Work on The Commercial Buildingeven after they were ordered to STOP.

They WORKED ON THE BUILDING TODAY

The Wilderness Club Resort has Deadlines to meet and they Will NOT let the rights of local landowners stand in their way. The Calgary Based Wilderness Club Montana and Nick Faldo have no Concern for the laws of Lincoln County Montana.

www.WildernessClubSubdivision.com

Weeks Ago Judge Prezeau ordered the Wilderness Club Resort in Eureka Montana to STOP working on a Commercial Building that VIOLATES the covenants of the Subdivision that they are in. And the Wilderness Club Continues still TODAY to work on the INSIDE of the Building. They were aparantley told that they may have to remove the building. Another words if they lose the lawsuit that the Koocanusa Estates residents have against them they may have to tear down their investment.
The Wilderness Club seems to think that they own the LAW in Lincoln County.
Since THIS illegal project started and the Wilderness Club chopped down the trees of private land owners to make a road that they did not have a right to make, the Wilderness Club had the attitude that if they just do it than no will STOP them. If they have enough money invested than the Laws of Lincoln will step aside and just say, "oh, well you have to much money into it, go ahead and keep it". I hope this is not true, but it Seems the Wilderness Club believes it is.
"It is Easier to say - oops - I'm Sorry, than to ask for permission", "Easier to Ask Forgiveness than to abide by the Law and do the right thing in the First Place."
Just when the Residents thought they would get some peace, they are now experience a different kind of stress. Loud Heaters and Lights blaring into their home, Construction Continues and the general feeling is that Big Money seems to be above the Law.

It does not matter what the Lincoln County Judge tells them to do they seem to Stand Above the Law, and Joe Purdy, their Realtor, whom I have not yet put into my BLOG is at the forfront of their blatant disrespect for the Laws of Lincoln county and the Rights of Private landowers.

I had purposely kept Joe's name out of my reports on the wilderness club, but if Joe will not tell the truth and stand up for the rights of property owners in a valley he claims to love than it's time to tell the truth about Joe Purdy.
In this situation Joe has been quoted as saying He will do what he wants. Joe Purdy claims he was given "written permission" to remove trees from private property for a road to be used to access a large commercial building that violates the local covenants. This building is to house chemical fertilizers and serve as a base of operation for grounds keeping equipment for the Wilderness Club Resort in Eureka Montana. The idea is to bring the "help" in the "back way" so as to not Disturb the Elite Group of landowner that reside within the Wilderness Club Golf Resort. However, it not only disturbs but RUINS the way of life the neighbors had been living previously.

You may think that this does not affect YOU. However, it does, if BIG Money can move into your "neck of the woods" and ruin the life you thought you moved here to enjoy or the life that you have always known here than it affects us all. It Seems that The Wilderness Club Cannot be Stopped. And despite the order from the Judge, they continue to work. Today they are Plumbing the building they were told to stop working on. Today they are putting in Electrical Wiring on the Building they were TOLD to STOP working on.

They WILL NOT stop, and it seems there is NO WAY to Make Them. It's as if they know they will never be made to remove the building and they certainly cannot magically make the stolen trees grow back and will, seemingly, never be made to PAY for the value of the trees.

Well Joe Purdy is Off to Mexico on Vacation and the Lives of the Neighbors at the Wilderness Club Montana continues to be Hell.

Slideshow of Area Photos before building went in andafter the trees were illegally removed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/northwest-montana/sets/72157602296757871/show/

Wilderness Club Above the Law?

After the County Judge told the Wilderness Club to stop construction on the building that has violated the covenants of the Koocanusa Estates and said that the building may be torn down, the Wilderness Club, according to my sources is MOVING FORWARD. They are working inside of the building and Swank Construction workers have confirmed this. Why does the Wilderness Club Golf Resort Feel they are above the Law?

www.WildernessClubSubdivision.com