Gwen Gates

The homestead of a family, or of a single adult person, shall be, and is hereby protected from forced sale, for the payment of all debts....

Article 16, Section 50 of

The Texas Constitution.

TEXAS

HOMEOWNERS

FOR

HOA REFORM, Inc.

Gwen Gates is a native Houstonian and a 20-year resident of Clear Lake. She currently serves and has served on the boards of both community organizations and her church. Prior to the birth of her children, she worked for five years as a management consultant at one of the Big Six accounting firms and for seven years in various positions for several oil and gas companies.

Gwen first became aware of HOA issues in 1997 when her association started using Chapter 204 as their basis to cite homeowners for deed restriction violations that do not exist in the CCRs filed by the developer in the 1960s. After making multiple attempts to resolve disputes over the association's assertion of power, Gwen and her husband sued the Clear Lake City Community Association, challenging their demands for repairs, their demands for trash fees, their denial of the Gates' voting rights, and their reallocation of payments by the Gates family for attorney fees which the Gates family, in writing, refused to pay. That case was settled in late February, 2008.

When she is not busy serving in the community or participating in homeowner advocacy issues, Gwen enjoys doing genealogy research, where she recently discovered that her husband and children are descended from two of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred".