Rooms and Rates

If you are thinking of purchasing this property, DON’T! The people you are dealing with are criminals and all involved will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law; May 1st, one year in exile.  Touchstone is now closed due to circumstances beyond our control. After their hostile takeover and 6 month decimation of the Properties at Touchstone, leaving nothing intact, criminals headed by Rose Ramirez and Associates, Rachael Baca, Eraina Edwards, Joshua Chappelle, Tiffany and Bosco, S&S Financial, Bank of New York Melon, US Bank, and Jason Bousliman, complicit with District Court judges Shannon, Kennelly, and McElroy on record in contempt of higher court orders, Shannon providing a Writ of Assistance to Taos County Sheriff’s Department, the mendacious criminals are now offering it for sale with the ironic challenge to, “Revive this property back to its original glory,” after they themselves have destroyed it. Rachael Baca certified that she served me; she did not.  She was involved in the physical eviction of nine people, she denied access to recover documents and belongings, now she is the Realtor offering the property for sale considerably below value!  Talk about Conflict of Interest!!  Touchstone was a viable business, May 1, 2023, with a totally booked Memorial Day weekend, a totally booked June concert in the park, and bookings into September all paid, in-hand had to be refunded, over $26,000. Three Documents dictate the status of this claim in favor of Brenda Price, NOT in favor of Plaintiffs or their Predecessors: On November 2, 2017, New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled that US Bank does not have Standing to Foreclose, reversing McElroy’s decision; on January 7, 2010,  the Order and Final Decree was handed down by Federal Judge Robert H. Jacobvitz Closing Case 11-10321, granting Trustee Metzger’s Motion to Convert to Chapter 7 after five years, calling the case fully administered and substantially consummated. Plaintiffs failed to appear at the last hearing and were given two weeks to appeal the decision; they failed to do so.  August 14, 2008, Stipulated Order by Federal Judge, McFeeley, 11-10321, explains that secured creditors could foreclose as of May 19, 2006 with Confirmation of the Plan; all secured creditors are treated the same.  Even with the knowledge that Federal Chapter 11 court had tried and judged this case, Judge Shannon based his decision on fraudulent information, altered note indorsement and fabricated documents filed by the Plaintiffs.  He had no jurisdiction to issue a Writ for Assistance with a license to steal, after he deemed that I failed to appear at a hearing on August 10, 2022, for his online kangaroo court at which I most certainly did appear along with my attorney, Mr. Padilla. The hearing was moved from 9:30 AM to 9:00 AM and switched from Zoom to Google Talk at the last minute; nonetheless, we were in attendance waiting to be let into the chat as we could hear banter in Spanish and English being carried on in the courtroom, then the Clerk came on to say, “Mr. Padilla, you are excused.” No explanation. Mr. Padilla was sent to hospital that day in an ambulance, and he withdrew from my case on May 9, 2023, after the wrongful eviction on May 1, 2023, due to health issues. I then filed 20 emergency documents pro se in the courts by May 15, 2023, to quash the unlawful Writ, all of which were ignored.

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Weddings at Touchstone

This was a Predatory Lending case involving 13 flipped mortgages within 2 years’ time that was settled in Federal Chapter 11 Court with a Final Decree and Order upholding the Trustee’s Motion to convert to Chapter 7 and close the case as fully administered and substantially consummated. The Plaintiffs failed to appear at the final hearing and were given two weeks to oppose the order; they failed to do so.  The two original Lenders were Countrywide-America’s Wholesale Lender, October 3, 2003, on 110A, and Bank of America, May 17, 2004, backdated to May 14, negating my 3-day right of rescission and adding $20K to principle with no net benefit to me; the $20K went to the Broker S&S  Financial who was paid for lack of specific performance on 110B. Bank of America assigned that mortgage on 110B to JP Morgan Chase, allegedly January 4, 2005, but Chase did not mention the assignment in the Complaint for Foreclosure, January 12, 2005, nor was it filed of record until January 21, 2005, the same day I was served with the Summons and Complaint for Foreclosure, violating Chapter 11 code because I had filed Chapter 11 reorganization on January 19, 2005.  I never received an assignment of that mortgage and I paid the wrong lender over $35,000. District Court erred in reopening the case in 2013 as the Statute of Limitations had expired. Bank of America Purchased Countrywide July of 2008, during Chapter 11.  Bank of America fabricated two mortgages on each 110A and 110B in 2012 and 2013, which were then passed on to predecessors US Bank and Bank of New York Mellon who filed this evidence as fraud on the court, lying to the judges as to the date of last mortgage payment being in 2014 when the actual last payment was in August 2004, and had already been called into default as seen in JP Morgan Chase’s Complaint for Foreclosure, January 12, 2005, and in Countrywide’s Motion for Lift of Stay in Chapter 11, both of which were expedited and dealt with in Federal Chapter 11 Court.  Judge Mc Feeley’s Stipulated Order explained that secured creditors could foreclose as of May 19, 2006, with the Confirmation of the Plan; they failed to do so.

I purchased the property outright in 1983 with no mortgage.  The black and white spreadsheet shows revenues from 1983 that have nothing to do with mortgages and show an equity in the property of around 2.8 million dollars sans any mortgages.  The property was burned by arsonists, November 22, 1992, and was rebuilt by December 1993 with 2 rooms to rent. There was no mortgage until 1996. I have invested over 2.2 million of my own money, and 40 years of my life in the property sans any mortgage. In my 30 years in business, I have grossed over 2 million dollars on which taxes were collected and paid to the state and town of Taos.  This business loss is devastating to the Town of Taos, the State of New Mexico, and to the citizens of the world as well as to myself and my family! One wonders, how could this happen in the USA? This whole fiasco has been an unconscionable travesty of willful theft and grand larceny and a failure of the judicial system not knowing what the right hand is doing while the left hand is allowing irreparable harm come to innocent people, destroying a valuable icon of Taos.

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