About Denise — RWHR Owner Documentation

Who I Am

Denise Flores (Breese), smiling, hair in braids, in the oak woodland of R-Wild Horse Ranch

At home on the Ranch.

My name is Denise Flores — many of you have known me for decades as Denise Breese. I am Owner #2357, and I have been an owner at R-Wild Horse Ranch since 1993. Thirty-three years. I raised my daughters here — on the trails, at the pool, at the campfires. This Ranch is not a line-item to me. It is where my family’s best days happened, and I want it to be that for your family too.

Denise with her daughter Sher, both smiling — With my daughter Sher — she grew up here.

The turnaround I was part of

I served as your elected Board Secretary from 2006 to 2010, on a Board that voted 97% unanimously. When that work began, the Ranch had fallen from 2,200 owners to roughly 985 in good standing. We rebuilt it — on purpose, with systems:

~985

shares in good standing when the turnaround began

100+/-

new owners added annually during my four years as Secretary

1,485

shares in good standing by 2010

The growth stopped after 2010, and the number has declined ever since — across several boards. That decline, and what it does to your dues, is why I never stopped offering to help.

Systems this Ranch still runs on

The election procedures the Association uses to this day — adopted July 14, 2007 at a noticed special meeting I presided over as Secretary (Resolution 2007-06), used with little modification for 19 years.
The assessment collection structure — rebuilt in 2006–2007 after it lay dormant when the developer left: trustee service agreements, pre-lien process, and a small-claims path designed for this Association. Some of it is a staple here to this day.
The Association’s first interactive website (2006), its first digital corporate archive (minutes back to 2002), and its first-ever internet access — which I funded by donating back the only two Davis-Stirling penalties the Association has ever paid, both of which had been paid to me.
The owner email channel — in 2008 I retired the printed newsletter (~$10,000/yr) and moved owner communications to Constant Contact, building the email database the Board still uses to reach you (including for the announcements on this site).
Roughly 90% of the Board resolutions of 2007–2010, including the sales-and-marketing resolutions — still on the books — that lawfully open the Ranch to prospective buyers through organized sales weekends and public venue events.

The R-Wild Horse Ranch television commercial (2007) — written and produced by me, aired with Board approval, part of the marketing push behind those 100-owners-a-year numbers.

Work you can stand on

The firebreak. Our western safety perimeter below Pattymocus Lookout was not purchased — it was negotiated. I traded my own services to the Sunflower CRMP coordinator, then assembled 29 separate landowners into one cooperative block-grant application, delivering a Cal-Fire firebreak at zero cost to the Association (roughly $36,000 of ground work). For a 14,080-acre property whose largest uninsurable risk is wildfire, that perimeter exists because 29 people west of our boundary were persuaded to sign one document.

Dry Creek. Growers had stopped the creek from flowing. The Association declined to join the coalition. Three Ball Road property owners did it themselves — and I funded the balance personally when resources ran out. Dry Creek has water in it today, secured by a recorded agreement running with the land across 160 acres — not a judgment. The Ranch has that benefit without ever spending a dollar or signing a page. That is how I prefer to work.

My professional background

I am a retired Production Manager from the Napa Valley — eighteen years, with employers including Charles Krug, Beaulieu Vineyards, Frank Family, and Rubicon Estate. The work was regulatory compliance under audit: federal and state filings, licensed Weighmaster, hazmat coordination, production budgets. A compliance officer’s job is making an organization’s paperwork survive outside examination — filed on time, complete, documented, nothing reconstructed after the fact. That is the same discipline an association needs for its minutes, notices, reserves, and elections. I am also a thirty-year real estate investor and property manager, and today I serve as President of SustainUkraine.org, a registered 501(c)(3) international nonprofit.

Why I’m the one in the courtroom

Since 2010 I have kept offering the same hands: Bylaw Committee service in 2011–2012, 2014–2016, and 2018; an offer in 2024 to run the special-meeting process myself at no cost; a complete working document set in April 2026 — notice, amendments, ballot, inspector resolution — drafted at my own expense. Not adopted. No response. What finally put me in a courtroom was not ambition; it was elections. After years of failed and manipulated elections — documented on this site (The Lawsuit & Exhibits) — I used the tools the law gives every owner: IDR requests, records requests, and a small-claims filing any owner can afford. The Board’s answer was to sue me in Superior Court — and, in their own words, to sue me “as a representative of any members who may share her position.” That made your rights the subject of the case, whether you knew it or not.

I am not a lawyer. I represent myself — In Pro Per — a simple owner across the table from a law firm funded by your dues.

Riders on horseback in the spring hills of the Ranch — A spring trail ride in the high country — from my Sales & Marketing Committee years.

Riders gathering at the Ranch stables — Riders gathering at the stables.

Friends and family with blue ribbons beside a horse at a Ranch gymkhana — Gymkhana day — friends, family, and blue ribbons, circa my marketing days (photo releases on file).

A collage of Ranch life: hills, ponds, trails, a teepee, dogs, and an alpaca — Life on and around the Ranch — the hills, the ponds, the trails. (The alpaca lives next door at Alice’s place — one of our housekeepers, and well loved.)

Denise laughing, hair in braids, at a night event outside the rec center — A night outside the rec center — this is what we’re fighting for.

I know how this Ranch is supposed to run, because I helped build many of the systems it still uses. I know how to perform a turnaround, because I was part of one.

If you have questions — about a document, about the case, about anything on this site — use the contact form. I answer owners.