In February 2021, Texas suffered from “Snovid” – i.e., a temperatures suddenly dipping below freezing, leading to lack of power and utilities such as water and electricity. Harris County, where Berkley Court is located, was most affected, and Berkley Court residents were not spared.
During this difficult time, many residents of Berkley Court were without power and asked the association for help, as folks were without water for days, which turned into weeks. Some home owners begged for assistance, as the solution to restore services required fixing pipes in the common element areas of the property.
While this state of emergency was going on, multiple home owners independently reported that they saw the supplier utilized by Rise AMG to fix plumbing issues ignore their requests for days, and instead work during that period in the current Board Secretary’s unit on non-emergency repairs (e.g., replacing sheetrock, painting walls, etc.).
So while many home owners had to fend for themselves in getting water restored, and other owners are still living with damage caused by the unlicensed personnel and waiting for critical services to be restored over 6 months later, the Board Secretary apparently used her position to get an updated apartment at a discounted price.
Don’t know about you but this sounds like one of the classic condo association corruption schemes to me…
We have also heard rumors of kickbacks to board members for work steered toward certain vendors – please send any evidence that can substantiate this information to berkleycourtneighbor@gmail.com or let us know anything else we may have missed in the comments below.