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Kennewick reservist faces threats over landscaping

By John Trumbo
Tri-City Herald

KENNEWICK — Burke Jensen moved to Kennewick about a year ago, bought a nice house in the country south of the city and began to settle into a new job at Energy Northwest.
Then came the call five months ago to serve his country in Kuwait.
So Jensen, who says he is an involuntarily mobilized reservist, headed off, leaving behind a pregnant wife, a young son and a 2.5-acre lot with not a spot of landscaping.
Now, Lt. Jensen is being told to get an irrigation system and landscaping on his property as soon as possible or face legal action from the Oak Hill Country Estates Homeowners' Association.
"I really don't give a [expletive] where he is or what his problem is," said Chick Edwards, owner and developer of the 47-lot subdivision at the south end of Oak Street in Kennewick.
"It doesn't matter to me," said Edwards, who insists Jensen has violated terms of the homeowners-association covenants requiring that landscaping be completed within one year after an occupancy permit is issued for a home.
"[Jensen] doesn't have the right to walk away from his obligation," said Edwards, who as the developer is the only member of the homeowners association. "I have most of the property still, so I am the homeowners association," he said.
Jensen's situation is complicated by the fact his wife chose to return with her son to stay with family on the East Coast for the duration of her pregnancy, leaving the home unoccupied.
Jensen's attorney, Tony DeAlicante of Redmond, Ore., said Jensen had paid a landscaper thousands of dollars to design and install an irrigation system and hydroseed the large lot this summer.
But DeAlicante said it appears the landscaper may have abandoned the job with the irrigation system only partially completed and no seeding done.
DeAlicante said Jensen also would like to find a renter for his home, but Edwards said that would be a commercial use not allowed by the homeowners association.
"He's not going to rent it," said Edwards. He said an attorney who has reviewed the covenants agrees.
An e-mail on Friday from Jensen to DeAlicante, which was provided to the Herald, says several of Jensen's fellow employees at Energy Northwest are helping to clear the property of weeds and blow out sprinkler lines, if necessary, to make sure they will not freeze during the winter. It also says a neighbor used a tractor to mow weeds.
Rick Miller, whose home is in sight of Jensen's, said he's sympathetic to Jensen's situation. "Given the circumstances, it doesn't bother me," he said. "He can't control the circumstances."
DeAlicante said he has written Edwards to tell him the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act prevents any civil legal action from being taken against someone on active military duty overseas. He also maintains Edwards cannot legally prevent Jensen from renting his property.
But Edwards said he isn't backing down.
"This is a contract. I don't like the way his property looks. This clown gets to do what he wants, and I'm as mad as hell," he said.


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Sounds like it's time to unleash the powers of RCC (and PBB) on this Edwards prick. :lol:

Chick Edwards at (509) 582-5679 32220 S Oak St, Kennewick, WA 99337

Have fun......."thumbsup"

Funny, somebody on NAXJA did the same thing;-)

Here's a radio interview with good ol' Chick Edwards... the "hay farmer"...

http://www.bobrivers.com/ontheshow/b...ismode=article

what an A$$!!! The things I would tell this guy in person.........

Unreal:twisted: I would crack this guys scull open if I saw him face to face! A grown man gets deployed to serve his country and this prick is worried about some grass!!!! I would love to see the soldier and the military fire back at this guy with a law suite of there own. I with Jason on this one, I say we give him the RCC treatment"thumbsup" Christ on a pop cycle this has me pissed off:twisted: Someone need to put a ass kicking on this guy like he's never had before!

Apearantly this guy doesn't give a darn about our country and the men and women that serve!! That REALLY PISSES ME OFF!!! I want Edwards to go over seas and fight with our guys and see if he's concerned about a couple of weeds while he's over there. Especially if the neighbors aren't complaining then who is he to care! Sounds like he just wants to play Hitler especially since he's the only person on the homeowners association! How is 1 guy going to make decisions for all of the owners in that subdivision? That's bs to begin with!! Sounds like all of his neighbors need to get on that association and make Edward's life a living heck! That's what I would do! Time to fight back legally/fairly and turn the tables! Make this a fight for our country versus 1 country moron that is letting his money go to his head! Time for a reality check!:twisted::flipoff::flipoff::flipoff:

dont believe everything you read.
especially not from any type of media.

question everything.

What a fricking PRICK. It has been quite a while since I've heard of an a$$hole of this magnitude.

A real American answers his country's call to serve overseas, possibly putting his life on the line while leaving a pregnant wife at home, and all this rich-ass developer prick can think about is the fricking LAWN???

I'm with TattoKenny and nothinbutpower, this really pisses me the hell off. Just who does this Chick Edwards guy think he is? He needs a two-fisted, steel-toe-booted reality check IMO. I'd like to cram a sprinkler head down his worthless throat. Irrigate THAT, bitch!!

If I were in Chick's shoes, I'd tell Mr. Jensen not to worry about the lawn and irrigation system, that I'd take care of it for him while he was away, and thank you for your service to our country...

wow, you really know how to put your foot in your mouth, EH?:roll:

have you ever had to DEAL with any of these "homeowners associations?"

i have friends that have, and you literally have to beg for permission to do the littlest things to your home. i had a friend and his family end up going to court with a homeowner's association over a friggin' STORM DOOR!!!


once again, this goes to show that these "homeowners assocIATIONS" that most new housing developments REQUIRE you to join when you move in are nothing but BS and corruption....

thank god my neighborhood is old enough that one of these doesn't exist in it....

Same here!!

It seems like this guy needs to move back to Canada....

X2... time to Wenzel this jackass"thumbsup"

well do enlighten us mr.slave

and i too have delt w/ home owners accosiations and have a definatly have fond hatred for them.ive actually been fined for the tree in my front yard not growing fast enough:shock:

This isn't a homeowners association. The dikhed said:
"[Jensen] doesn't have the right to walk away from his obligation," said Edwards, who as the developer is the only member of the homeowners association. "I have most of the property still, so I am the homeowners association," he said.
Sounds like a fawking dictatorship to me:roll:
As soon as I go to the bathroom to drop an Edwards, I'm gonna call this prick (509-582-5679)"thumbsup"

As far as Mr Slave goes, he doesn't have a clue...... again:lol:

i would have to agree. home owners associations are no good. they just like to control peoples lives. i understand that they want the houses in the neighborhood to look nice and all but the story about the guy having to go to Kuwait is ridiculous. give him a break. he is out there putting his a$$ on the line for our country and some idiot back here is going to get his panties up in a bunch over landscaping? wow. sounds like he needs to go. BIG TIME!!!!

Seriously!?

lets all egg his house

No......fuking......way.

What a D-bag!

Why is it that you always chime in with some kind of smart ass remark about a topic that you don't even care about? You know the kind of response that you are going to get on here. There are a lot of other forums that you can chat away on besides here. Almost all of your post are in chat. You have done nothing to help this site. Prick! Eh?:flipoff: This soldier is one of the many who protect your ass to! Mr. Canada, who do you think watches your asses, AMERICA! Remember we still have guns;-)

Did you guys listen to the audio?
Jensen is manipulating the media.
The developer sounds like a reasonable guy and is willing to compromise.

What version did you listen to?
I'm listening right now and Edwards is an asshat:roll:
All he's doing is making excuses for being the douchebag that he is....

So what do you guys think, pineapple and green onions or sausage on his hundred pizzas?

Anchovies and pineapple

http://nostr.net/forums/images/smilies/puke.gif:lol:

Could you please explain how an active service member, who spends his days in the field would have time to "manipulate" the media?

Naw, I think he wants his pizzas fully loaded! Every topping the pizza place can possibly fit on em.

What? I thought we were listing our favorite pizza flavors...

Just to play devil's advocate, the developer/hay farmer does say that Jensen moved in 18 months PRIOR to being deployed, so he would have had plenty of time to do his landscaping, so he does have a reason to be upset but he went about it the wrong way for sure. The idea of a homeowner's association is a good one, but it breeds idiots who go on power trips. I have the same problem with my condo association.

i hope he comes back from his deployment and punches that pole smoke'n son of a motherless goat right in his pole smoke'n hole ........


goddamn spineless liberals

X2, hit the garbage cans even"thumbsup"

it IS a homeowners association, just a new one. Whenever a new development is made and a homeowners association is created the developer is the sole member until the units are sufficiently sold so that there are owners who can be on the board. Its the way the HOA is structured in its infancy. This sounds like a brand new development that hasnt sold many units yet.
The HOA's are put in place to maintain the properies, and thus their values stay higher (supposedly) by the upkeep of the properties. For example, having a car up on blocks in the front yard will lower property values so HOA rules would prohibit that. The developer is trying to enforce the landscaping rule in particular probably to keep the curb appeal high and help him sell the remaining units. It also helps the homeowners in that their values are higher than without enforcement.
I live in a condo and HATE my HOA, but I understand legally what it does and why it exists.

Gee, thanks for the HOA lesson:roll:
You obviously didn't comprehend my post, or didn't listen to that POS being "interviewed" or didn't read the newspaper article. If you did, you'd understand why I said what I said;-)

the fact is this guy sucks and now he has a lil power on the homeowners association thing and goes on an extreme power trip casue he can for the first time in his life. the guy is oversea's for god's sake, leave him be. do you think uncle sam is gonna release him from his duties oversea's to tend to his lawn? i think not. thank god i don't have to deal with any homeowners association, cause if i did i would probably have a different place or put a rusted out 1974 dodge dart in my driveway.

Hell, send the prick to Iraq. Course he would probably spend too much time bitching about how "their isn't enough green" in the desert. But that's what friendly fire is for right "thumbsup"

Lol at rudukai:D

He's a loser... like most people in the world...

the d bag developer could have planted the grass made the place look prettier and sold more units.....the fact he sold the units w o landscaping
shows he is a cheap ass.....The really sad thing is everybody loses...

But his excuses are valid.

1. The homeowner was not (and still isn't) in Iraq when this became an issue. He was sleeping at home while he got special training.

2. The developer is being played by the media as a bad guy, yet he is willing to compromise with the homeowner to reach an agreement.

As previously shown, the homeowner had plenty of time to get his landscaping done, and tried (he hired a landscaper who walked off). The bad guy here is not the developer but the deadbeat landscaper.
Why should the developer be hung in the court of public opinion for a landscaper who ran with the money? The soldier signed a contract and needs to stick to it, UNLESS he is away from home serving his country.

The soldier is manipulating the media by only showing one side of the story, the media doesn't show the other side b/c it wouldn't be a newsworthy story. He wasn't in Iraq, he leaves in 2 weeks.

I agree that the landscaping can wait till a reasonable amount of time after the soldier gets back from Iraq. (he is currently on a vacation on the east coast with his wife and neworn baby)

http://www.kvewtv.com/news/?sect_ran...&story_id=9710

1. The home has been unoccupied for the past 6 months....

2. You need to listen to the radio interview where they were having a mutual ass kissing session.....

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennew...ry/345303.html

I think we can all agree the deadbeat landscaper is a scum...
Why would you say the media is manipulating the story? Every article I've read has both sides of the story, even the story you linked to has both sides.
The soldier is on active duty right now regardless of whether he's in country or not.
His wife had the baby back east and wants to stay with her family while he's gone.
The only real thing now is to point out all the good people of the Tri-Cities that pitched in to help out this family and to point out that Chick Edwards is still a dikhed"thumbsup"

He doesn't need to do the landscaping but he needs to pay someone and make sure they do it. That is his responsibility.

So active duty servicemen don't need to take care of their responsibilities? They don't need to keep their sides of contracts?

The bottom line here is that the soldier signed a legal contract and when his personal life (not his job) got in the way he went crying to the media.

From my perspective the developer seems like he is willing to defer the agreements of the covenant for a soldier fighting overseas (which this soldier is not and was not)

I know I look like a bad guy here but I am just playing devils advocate. This story worked out good for everyone. The developer got his side of the contract filled and the soldier got his landscaping done for free.