At Berkley Court, residents who speak up are targeted for harassment via violations until the current (unelected) board members force them into foreclosure or into selling their property (before they lose their home via foreclosure).
However, a few brave souls have decided to share their experiences, despite the risk. Here are their stories:
More stories to come… feel free to share your own experience in the comments below.
Fellow Home Owner Associations –
If you are considering a new property management company, please do not hire RISE Association Management Group (aka RISE AMG). Any other company will likely serve you better. In fact, having no managing agent may be more stress-free than employing RISE.
Some tidbits to consider as to why:
If you want your funds depleted with no corresponding services being performed, residents harassed and bullied so that they are stressed out and on edge with their neighbors, and a property value that keeps going lower every year because of the unsafe living environments proliferating on RISE’s watch – hire this company.
Otherwise, save yourself time, money, and grief and move on to a different option.
Sincerely,
An HOA In Hell
According to the site Texas-Homeowners-Associations.com, these are the top pros and cons for living in an HOA.
What is striking is that it seems that Berkley Court home owners may have all the cons and none of the gains of living in an HOA.
Let’s take each boon one by one:
What is your view? What benefits does the current management of Berkley Court Home Owner’s Association provide you?
In America, our judicial systems presume someone is innocent until proven guilty. That is the prevailing system – except in Berkley Court.
At Berkley Court, the sad reality is that the current (unelected) Board of Directors believes it KNOWS everything and that everyone is guilty, and they do not have to prove anything.
Let’s take an example to see why this matters. In the below email, the property manager has denied a home owner’s request to fix the sheet rock damaged by the supplier that the (unelected) Board contracted.
Why?
Because the (unelected) Board president, an individual who has never met the home owner nor been in the unit with the home owner’s knowledge, said so.
When the homeowner asked, the property manager could not answer the question as to how anyone on the Board lawfully claims to know the happenings within an individual’s unit. He cannot provide any evidence to substantiate the claim.
A few possibilities as to how this knowledge has come to be then emerges:
How does this matter?
The current (unelected) Board’s belief that it knows all leads to flawed decisions and biased judgements that impact Berkley Court residents in a very real manner.
The list goes on and on…
Homeowners – we ask that you not sit by and allow this to continue to happen any longer. You may not have experienced it yet, but it may be you sooner or later.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Martin Niemöller (1892–1984), Lutheran pastor in Germany
