Colorado DORA DRE Survey Responses

“My yard has repeatedly flooded with 10 inches of water from May - August and the HOA Board won’t fix it and won’t let me fix it.”

“Bottom line is residents do not have a say in anything.”

“We budgeted $130,000 and the insurance came in at $232,000.”

“For the past 5 years we had a management rep who never answered emails or returned phone calls yet they continued to take out their monthly fee of $2,500.”

“We still never saw the bank documents we asked for and we’re told a new account was opened and money was transferred but still no account statements were ever shared.”

“We recently filed a court complaint, as we have been delayed since 2019 on house plans, and the HOA refuses to follow basic rules such as holding elections and complying with information requests.”

“I have never received a notice about board elections, the same members seem to keep re-electing themselves.”

“My latest request for records has gone ignored for a couple of months now.”

“They eventually took legal action against me in district court which we settled and they have since broken it multiple times and they even filed a frivolous motion against me in court that was throw out by the judge.”

“Meeting minutes at this point are a year behind.”

“Each owner is to pay $10,263 even though not all the roofs have the same square footage.”

“The HOA/property mgr gave demonstrably false election results for a $58,000 special assessment, has failed to produce requested voting and financial records and is now proposing fee increases above the legal CPI-based limit.”

“Was issued a nuisance violation that never existed as claimed.”

“I opposed the Board attempting to fine a homeowner $5,000 and make them replace their roof ($15,000 out of pocket) for using a different shade of gray roof shingle.”

“I received a letter to tear down the dog run in 3 days or be fined $250 for the first day and $50 a day for every day afterward.”

“They placed a $100 fee on my account that they refuse to address.”

“I waited 4 business days for someone to respond to my request for a copy of the W9 for my lender.”

“But when a hole in my roof was discovered, I waited months for the HOA to get their company to fix it.”

“AND there is no money to have the $330,000 repair completed in addition to wild-land maintenance completed.”

“The turnover audit has NOT been completed although governing documents state within 60 days.”

“The fence builder mentioned that the HOA only allows fences that were already built can stay and be rebuilt, but any new request for a fence will not be approved.”

“They threatened to fine us for not completing our landscaping within 6 months despite the fact we had record rainfall this year and couldn't schedule anything.”

“The HOA board makes decisions on the fly about landscaping and don’t contact the homeowner whose home is near the landscaping they want to modify.”

“In 2021 we worked with a local landscaper to create a plan that met both HOA requirements and recommendations for fire mitigation, water conservation, and promotion of native plants and wildlife.”

“Use of executive sessions to make the starting time of the Board meetings impossible to know.”

“Our Annual Meeting in January 2023 was supposed to be in person, but at the last minute they changed it to a Zoom meeting.”

“Our paid manager did not attend. We had 8 residents. In a community of 429 homes.”

“A large special assessment (around $600,000) was done 3 years ago, and there are rumors another is coming with absolutely no financial report of the first one.”

“Many of us are on payment plans paying $620 extra a month until we pay off the special assessment, plus our monthly dues of $220.”

“A recent elect board (November 2023) has just passed and approved a $3,500,000 assessment regarding our building, where the smallest units will be responsible for $20,000 and it goes up from there.”

“So when I contacted my insurance company, they informed me that with my current policy, since I have a condo/walls in policy, it currently doesn't cover detached structures/garages, and I would have to change my policy to a regular policy which would increase my premium from $860/ year to $2,200/ year.”

“Greatly under reserved to about $300,000 or about $15,000 per unit.”

“Please note that we already replaced the roof (with the previous HOA) 4 years ago and it cost us $1,800 per door, and here, it is $14,259 per door!”

“The president of the Hoa threatened us with Felony criminal mischief for a minor and demanded $2,100 and for my daughter to do $2,100 of community service.”

“When we approached a Director of the Board and told him we were being harassed, his comment to us was "It isn't over until the HOA says it is over." Later that year, I was working with the President of the HOA, to reach a settlement with the HOA for ruts left in the grass (an area 7 x 23) as a result of the construction of the deck.”

“The photo was taken peering into a bedroom window.”

“Property management needs to be licensed and someplace within Colorado departments held responsible for actions.”

“Does our HOA qualify as Small associations that is not required to follow CCIO if we have 20 properties and our due are over $400 a month.”

“MOST HOA problems would be resolved by implementing a state-wide, state-run HOA web site that contains web pages for each respective HOA and houses electronic versions of respective CC&Rs, polices which are easily cross-referenced, along with Financial statements, invoices, electronic voting, balloting, customer satisfaction survey, etc.”

“My concerns are the HOA not providing documents in an accessible format for the blind homeowner.”

“A vendor will charge an HOA $8,000 for a job that would cost an individual home owner $4,000, even if it's the same size job.”

“There should be a low-cost forum for resolving disputes so that court proceedings and even formal arbitrations are rare.”

“My tenant did not leave the parking hang tags when they moved out.”

“Parking we live in a horse community and I feel we should be able to park at least one horse trailer outside!!”

“They enforce parking rules randomly, they have sent a violation letter to me claiming a violation but with a picture of a completely different house.”

“They send duplicate violation letters with differing compliance deadlines.”

“The other equally concerning item is that when we moved in, each homeowner was required to pay $900 at closing to facilitate a community center and pool to be open this month and development hasn't begun.”

“Currently my HOA has filed a hail damage claim with a $2,200,000 deductible which would put each homeowner on the line to pay up to $16,000 out if pocket it they were not carrying enough HO6 insurance on the date the claim was filed.”

“Threatened to tow my vehicle in front of my unit without true cause just because "someone complained." Requested a hearing which took 4 months.”

“Very first communication with HOA the first month involved the phrase “just because you can afford it doesn’t mean you people should live here.””

“Denied repeated (17 total) hearing requests.”

“Our HOA of 9 homes has been represented by a Board that has recklessly abused their roles to attack the developer and ran up a $200,000 legal bill in which the HOA Board lost to the developer.”

“Community manager appears to only contract with her particular book of contractors some of which had no employees, equipment or experience in CO when awarded the contract.”

“The most significant concern is that the president hired a company formed by a friend and paid over $220,000 for landscaping services when the budget was only $36,000 and the president works very hard to stay on the board, including manipulating elections and avoiding election altogether by swapping places with a board member having 2 years left.”

“Like our streets which need to be paved at a cost of $550,000. Our sprinkler system broke this year and needed to be replaced throughout at a cost of $28,000 which was not in the budget. And in just the last 3 months we had 3 water line pipe breaks at a cost of $10,000 each.”

“My new neighbor had to pay $6,600 the first week they moved into their home because the HOA didn't reveal the upcoming assessment.”

“16 units times $250/month is $4,000 a month , $48,000 a year. What costs $4,000 a month that our dues are so high? I have been to only 1 HOA meeting because they do not post the location or date nor time of the meetings.”

“The records show they have taken care of other homes before but not only refuse to take care of mine, they retaliated by sending me a bill for $12,143 for a gas line repair that had been done 5 months before.”

“This story is even more disturbing when you understand that the Law Firm spearheading all of this, and the attorney in charge of this 13 + years ago attempted “judicial foreclosure” on my previous home over $187 in past dues, this attorney then cost us tens of thousands of dollars of our legal fees, and charged to nearly $25,000 in legal fees all over that $187.”

“The pool here has been closed for 2 YEARS this month, a complete debacle, and NO NOTICE OF common area closure as required by CCIOA, although I have been asking for this for 2 years.”