Major Holders of NYSE:UDR Stock, Vanguard Group & ING Clarion, Notified of Class Action

This week, I notified Vanguard Group, Inc. (institutional holder of 13, 588, 373 NYSE:UDR shares) and ING Clarion Real Estate Securities LLC (institutional holder of 13, 383, 857 NYSE:UDR shares) that a class-action lawsuit was forming on behalf of all California tenants of UDR. See: http://thebigbearianreturns.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/5767/

This Monday, November 8, 2010 is UDR’s Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call and UDR executives are very busy manipulating the stock to cover up the operational defects of the company. UDR’s Board of Directors and executive management team are seasoned pros at manipulating the NYSE:UDR stock price at the ninth hour to present a favorable, yet false, picture to its investors. See: http://thebigbearianreturns.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/udr-nyseudr-executives-are-busy-preparing-for-its-3q-earnings-conference-call/

Did you know that the California market represents 40% of UDR’s revenues?

What do you think a California class action lawsuit would do to the future earnings of this publicly-traded landlord / REIT located in Highlands Ranch, Colorado?

From Vanguard Group, Inc. I contacted the following executives via fax at 610-669-6605:

F. William (Bill) McNabb III,
Chairman, President, and CEO

Paul Heller,
Managing Director and CIO

Michael S. Miller,
Managing Director, Planning and Development Group

From ING Clarion I contacted the following executives via personal email:

Stephen J. Furnary,
Chairman & CEO

T. Ritson Ferguson,
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer, ING Clarion Real Estate Securities

William Krauch,
Head of Global Marketing ING Real Estate Investment Management

For everyone’s sake, I hope these institutional stock holders take this seriously. I have been working on this for almost two years. During the same period of time UDR, together with its legal house boys at Burkhalter, Kessler, Goodman & George, have orchestrated the very worst possible acts of intimidation and horror toward me.

However, short of putting a bullet through my head, there isn’t anything UDR hasn’t done to me in the name of getting me to stop. So, what more do I have to lose? I have nothing but passion for this cause and my fear of constant and unrelenting retaliation has disappeared.

- On June 16, 2009, UDR illegally locked me out of my UDR apartment at Villa Venetia causing me to be homeless for a month. See: http://thebigbearianreturns.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/udr-stock-price-expected-to-plummet-with-update-on-california-class-action-lawsuit-128-udr-tenants-have-joined-in-first-weeksuit-against-reit-landl/

- Three days later, on June 19, 2009, UDR deemed everything in my apartment “abandoned” and came in and moved everything I owned into a UDR-owned storage facility, including boxes of evidence from almost 400 class action members of the first time I tried to form a class action lawsuit against UDR.

- Then UDR sold all my property to James Parsa of Parsa Law Group to use as evidence against me. Of course, I didn’t know this until Parsa’s attorneys (Eric Goodman and David Berstein of Burkhalter, Kessler, Goodman & George told Martin Schwarz, my Orange County Public Defender, while we were waiting to face Judge Franz Miller on contempt charges against me. Goodman and Berstein must have been thoroughly convinced that I would waive my First Amendment rights to regain possession of the property UDR and Parsa stole from me. I told them that my First Amendment rights are not for sale. See: http://thebigbearianreturns.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/burkhalter-attorneys-attempt-to-buy-baldwins-silence/

- Burkhalter saw to it that I was sued 4 times for defamation (three times by their own hand and once influenced by their actions) in a period of six months. Both court orders they obtained were fraudulent from the beginning and a year and a half later were deemed unconstitutional. (Only Jeffrey Cancilla was smart enough to dismiss his action.) See: http://thebigbearianreturns.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/burkhalter-kessler-goodman-george-llps-attys-facing-charges-of-barratry/

- I was followed up to Big Bear by Burkhalter’s process server, Michael Estrada, after I placed a call to UDR headquarters from the residence of Keith & Patty White inquiring about my property. The call was traced and two days later Estrada was at the White’s doorstep serving me papers.

- I was falsely arrested by the Big Bear Sheriffs as a suspect in making “an annoying telephone call, ” and while in custody was beat up by five male Sheriff’s deputies and shipped down to West Valley Detention Center. Minutes before dousing me pepper spray while three other sheriffs held me, Sergeant Jeremy King further attempted to intimidate me by stating, “We think you should go back down the hill to Orange County where you came from.” I told him, “I’ll go back down the hill to Orange County when I see you go to prison.” And I meant it.

- When I was released on my own recognizance the same day, I started a blog called The Big Bearian to document the facts that occurred prior to, during and after my beating in custody.

- To mitigate the liability of the Big Bear Sheriffs’ illegal actions, the DA filed five criminal actions AGAINST ME and until February I fought those charges on my own because the San Bernardino County Public Defender’s Office was completely incompetent and in bed with the DA.

- On the very same day I was to serve a Pitchess Motion against the sheriffs that beat me up in custody, I was once again falsely arrested and thrown in jail for 35 days on the force of an Orange County $5, 000 civil bench warrant for contempt of court in the Parsa Law Group case. When the authorities realized I was not going to plead guilty to felony assault with a deadly weapon (or anything else for that matter), they dismissed the charge in its entirety. See: http://thebigbearianreturns.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/5510/ and http://thebigbearianreturns.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/baldwin-files-pitchess-motion-to-force-sb-sheriffs-to-disclose-past-big-bear-sheriff-misconduct/

- When I got out I was promised by DA Melinda Spencer, Judge Michael Dest and Public Defender Geoffrey Canty that I could collect my two dogs and propery. That was 8 months ago. See: http://thebigbearianreturns.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/baldwin-seeks-help-from-san-bernardino-judge-michael-dest-for-the-return-of-her-dogs-property/

- Now UDR is trying to get WordPress to delete the UDR blog. See: http://thebigbearianreturns.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/burkhalter-attys-are-gluttons-for-punishment-berstein-demands-wordpress-delete-new-udr-class-action-website/ even though they know that the Parsa Law Group was demmed unconstitutional by Judge Franz Miller (and the identical UDR court order by default). See: See: http://thebigbearianreturns.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/orange-county-public-defender-martin-schwarz-is-a-hero/.

I could go on and on (it’s all here on this blog) but I think you get the hint. It is never easy standing up for what is right. Never. But I comfort myself in knowing that UDR would never go to all this effort if what I was saying wasn’t true. They are flat out finished. Wait until you hear the announcement next week. That will seal the deal.

Finally, I never started this cause for my financial benefit as I haven’t made one penny. There are 1000s of UDR tenants that have been defrauded by UDR. Throughout the last two years I have heard some pretty bad stuff. I’m sorry but I can’t just walk away now; I’ve come to far.

Erin Baldwin