Added information for letters

Please re-read this post~~> Please write those letters!

One thing to remember when you're writing these letters: DO NOT include any references to property values. Letters that include property values as a reason will be tossed. There are plenty of other reasons to include: traffic congestion; no mass transit; no nearby stores or doctors' offices, etc.; volunteer fire department, which is already stretched very thin; and others.

Remember: We need to have LOTS of letters in the Multifamily Finance Production Division of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs because the letters are filed and kept in reference to the property, not the developer or the particular application.

If you have already written, but mentioned property values, please write another letter. If you have written and mailed a letter that didn't mention property values, you don't need to write again.

Thanks to everyone for all that's been done so far. Now let's attend those meetings and stay vigilant!

Letters everyone should see

Here are links to two letters that everyone in Northampton and Auburn Lakes should see.

1. Developer Mark Koogler's letter to Wade Jones and the Northampton Maintenance Fund, dated December 30, 2010.

2. Developer Mark Koogler's Pre-Application to Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, dated January 5, 2011.

Notice that the developer has a name: Auburn Northampton, LP.

Please make sure you have written or emailed or faxed or called all the appropriate people who can help us quash this low-income apartment complex:

• How to take action

and

• Another contact for protests

We need to be like Winston Churchill, who said, "Never, never, never, never give up!"