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... but now I must join the rest of the people who have realized that they actually do deserve the shit they deal with.
I'll remind those who have forgotten, I live in a rented condo, I pay the property management fee separate from my rent. The monthly fee is $150, we are one of the less expensive communities, yet apparently from what I've heard from people who live in other communities we receive some of the better service (terrifying thought).
So, on with my bitching.
1) I am 6 foot, my shortest neighbor is 5'6"... the trees are trimmed at just over 5 feet above the sidewalk (now, I aint no math major, but...).
2) This year the pool has had no problem with the health department, though I think that may be because of a lack of inspection. The pool area is always dirty, the pool furniture is all broken, and last year the pool was closed TWICE by the health department in 3 months.
3) Trash in the parking lot. This is a common occurrence (and it's not our neighbors doing it, it's the people in the Section 8 housing next door doing it), our maintenance team refuses to pick any of it up, we take turns cleaning the parking lot.
4) Graffiti, not often, but Property Management refuses to paint over it, they just let it sit until some resident gets sick of it and buys paint themselves and paint it themselves.
5) In the winter they neither plow the parking lot nor shovel/salt the sidewalks.
6) It took the liability insurance company threatening to cancel coverage to get them to fix the wood rot on the balcony railings.
7) Their accountant can't possibly be certified, and if they are they shouldn't be. I'm not sure how familiar the folks on this board are with accounting law, but those of you who are familiar will understand immediately just how wrong this is.
They released their financial statements and they didn't even hide their unethical techniques. They have several investment owners who will pay for a full year of fees up front rather than month to month. To hide their collections problem, they would put the prepayments in as a negative accounts receivable
Now to explain to those without any accounting background, an accounts receivable can never go negative, if someone overpays a new account MUST be created to reflect that the person has overpaid. I have checked with three separate of my accounting professors and they all agreed, there are only two reasons to put in a negative accounts receivable, first to reduce receivables, second to reduce liabilities (since an overpaid account is legally considered a liability). The most plausible reason to do either is to mislead investors and/or banks (though I cannot say that is what they are doing, merely that it is a likely reason to put in the entries incorrectly).
8) And now for the reason that I will be calling them tomorrow.
We have been having a problem with the people on the other side of the building telling their guests to park in my parking space. Tonight I called the office to ask for the number to call to have unauthorized vehicles towed, and the employee admitted they had no plan for dealing with unauthorized vehicles.
Umm excuse me?
You have NO plan for dealing with unauthorized vehicles?
We aren't talking about the middle of the suburbs where parking is nearly unlimited, we are talking about urban South Salt Lake where if you don't have an assigned space you may end up having to go half a block away or more to find a space, and that's not when one of the places down the street throws a block party (in which case plan on being at least a quarter mile to half mile away). And you have no plan on what to do when after I've gotten nothing else for my $150 for me to even get into my parking spot? I'm sorry, I'm not paying you 150 fucking dollars a month to park a block away (while getting hit by the trees that you don't trim, looking at the landscaping changes that you made without HOA approval, and seeing the trash all around the place).
I'll remind those who have forgotten, I live in a rented condo, I pay the property management fee separate from my rent. The monthly fee is $150, we are one of the less expensive communities, yet apparently from what I've heard from people who live in other communities we receive some of the better service (terrifying thought).
So, on with my bitching.
1) I am 6 foot, my shortest neighbor is 5'6"... the trees are trimmed at just over 5 feet above the sidewalk (now, I aint no math major, but...).
2) This year the pool has had no problem with the health department, though I think that may be because of a lack of inspection. The pool area is always dirty, the pool furniture is all broken, and last year the pool was closed TWICE by the health department in 3 months.
3) Trash in the parking lot. This is a common occurrence (and it's not our neighbors doing it, it's the people in the Section 8 housing next door doing it), our maintenance team refuses to pick any of it up, we take turns cleaning the parking lot.
4) Graffiti, not often, but Property Management refuses to paint over it, they just let it sit until some resident gets sick of it and buys paint themselves and paint it themselves.
5) In the winter they neither plow the parking lot nor shovel/salt the sidewalks.
6) It took the liability insurance company threatening to cancel coverage to get them to fix the wood rot on the balcony railings.
7) Their accountant can't possibly be certified, and if they are they shouldn't be. I'm not sure how familiar the folks on this board are with accounting law, but those of you who are familiar will understand immediately just how wrong this is.
They released their financial statements and they didn't even hide their unethical techniques. They have several investment owners who will pay for a full year of fees up front rather than month to month. To hide their collections problem, they would put the prepayments in as a negative accounts receivable
Now to explain to those without any accounting background, an accounts receivable can never go negative, if someone overpays a new account MUST be created to reflect that the person has overpaid. I have checked with three separate of my accounting professors and they all agreed, there are only two reasons to put in a negative accounts receivable, first to reduce receivables, second to reduce liabilities (since an overpaid account is legally considered a liability). The most plausible reason to do either is to mislead investors and/or banks (though I cannot say that is what they are doing, merely that it is a likely reason to put in the entries incorrectly).
8) And now for the reason that I will be calling them tomorrow.
We have been having a problem with the people on the other side of the building telling their guests to park in my parking space. Tonight I called the office to ask for the number to call to have unauthorized vehicles towed, and the employee admitted they had no plan for dealing with unauthorized vehicles.
Umm excuse me?
You have NO plan for dealing with unauthorized vehicles?
We aren't talking about the middle of the suburbs where parking is nearly unlimited, we are talking about urban South Salt Lake where if you don't have an assigned space you may end up having to go half a block away or more to find a space, and that's not when one of the places down the street throws a block party (in which case plan on being at least a quarter mile to half mile away). And you have no plan on what to do when after I've gotten nothing else for my $150 for me to even get into my parking spot? I'm sorry, I'm not paying you 150 fucking dollars a month to park a block away (while getting hit by the trees that you don't trim, looking at the landscaping changes that you made without HOA approval, and seeing the trash all around the place).
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