Legal Question in Business Law in California

There is a lady in our subdivision trying to collect pool fees from me under the claim that she is the secretary of an HOA that doesn't exist. She placed 2 liens on my house, continually threatens to foreclose, has sent a letter to all my neighbors telling them that I've never paid, how much she claims I owe, that she's placed the liens and should she proceed further to teach me a lesson. She has been billing 14 homeowners $500/yr, for several yrs ( another homeowner was doing it prior to the current lady, under the same false HOA ), then charged each homeowner another $380, in 2013, for replastering. I've figured out the cost of maintaining the pool (utilities and all expenses included ) and have figured it at a high figure of $3000/yr. She is trying to collect $7000/yr and in 2013 she tried to collect $12,320. I've asked her, several times, for proof of HOA, list of board members, full accounting of pool fees, HOA bank accounts, copy of minutes of meetings. She has sent me nothing, but a copy of the recorded liens, with numbers and dates crossed out and changed, after recording and showing that the day she wrote up the notice of lien is the same day it was recorded, never giving proper notice before placing liens. I've checked with California Attorney Generals office and county recorders office and there is no record of an HOA licensed or registered, in Riverside county or the state of California, with the name she claims. Also the common pool area was bought by a private individual in 2004, for $431,000, when the assessor has it valued at $15,000 and they don't pay any property tax on it, each individual homeowner has to pay 1/14 of the taxes.

I can't afford an attorney, but need to get the liens removed and stop her from continuing to do this to other unsuspecting homeowners in the area. What are my options to stop this?

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