Associa Colorado Association Services Stay Away from this Property Management Firm Lakewood, Colorado

If you are looking for a Property Management Company for your HOA, please do NOT select Associa or Colorado Association Services.  This company is comprised of lazy managers who are only interested in up-selling you services that they get a commission on - such as landscaping, repairs, roofing, etc.  Their managers are not well trained and are over-extended in terms of the number of associations they have to manage.   

They are a national company and base their operations in TX, so your bookkeeping is in another state and is very hard to understand and sort through.  Not accusing them of being negligent fiscally, but they make it very difficult to see a picture of your finances.  Their processes are very oblique and intended to confuse and  by not taking care of your business for you many things in your community will fall behind.    HOA's have to almost be self-managed because Associa will do very little --rarely contact your vendors, not follow up on problems and usually just float along and hope you don't catch them.  

One of the worst things they did is not file taxes on time, and then lie about doing it.  This was also true for an audit.  

In the Denver area, they have lost multiple HOA's all located in one area and this has been for negligence.  The common thoughts among many of these groups, who know and communicate with each other is that Associa is the WORST they have ever had and getting rid of them is the best thing you can do.  Just warning not to engage with them.  They sell hard at the beginning but then drop out and your property management issues multiply.