Condo Association Management Blog

Your management company is the Board. They are under contract and their efforts should be dictated by the Board. The contractor is not permitted to manage -just to serve the needs of the board. subject such as revcieving and paying bills, payroll etc .They should not be permitted to take any decsion for the board nor the association. At first glance I think you may be well advised to immediately terminate their contract.

Download a copyof the Pa State condominiujm law from 
 
http://www.parealtor.org/content/upload/AssetMgmt/Legal%20Services/Laws%20&%20Regulations/Uniform%20Condominium%20Act.pdf 
 
 
 
 
 
Read it

Re: Fire extinguishers...contact your local fire department. They should come out to inspect periodically anyway. Once they are aware of expired extinguishers, they will see that it is remedied (usually within 30 days) or there will be fines to deal with. 
 
The management company answers to the board. The board makes all decisions, but can consider information/recommendations of the management company when doing so. The board should be very careful that they have ALL the information before just taking the word of a management company for any decision.

Does your management comopany possess tghe required state license and liability insurance???

The management service is a very well known Large firm in our city. I am sure they have all the credentials to run a management service. 
 
Right now the main problem is the 3 BOD stepped down back in April and I have been pushing for new Board member or mebers to be voted into place. I am being given excuses like well it's the holidays or we have people on vacation right now and I don't know when we can get a meeting together, but it will be soon. Soon has now turned into 8 months and the new contract took the old presdient almost 2.5 months to return the signed contract back to management service. This place was so mis-managed and most of us were thrilled to vote on management service. They promised us a monthly financial report and so far we have got nothing. 
 
I have read all of the Pa. Uniform Law and yet when someone does not return your phone calls it is not useful. I have 4 others help in moving forward, but somehow seem like we are standing still for managment is now our BOSS! I want to have faith in management, but I don't think it should take 8 months to get us back on track and get a new board into place. I understand management does do most of the work, but at this point they are doing NOTHING. 
 
I will take "C"'s advice since I reported the fire ext. 3 times now to get fixed (since June) and I don't care who's little toes I step on. If God forbide we had a fire and they didn't work, what would we do then?  
 
When someone offers the help and they turn you down what do you do? 
 
But anyways I guess we just sit and wait for when they are ready to do their own thing. Thaks for the comments 
 

Under a client-manager relationship, it's property manager who has more responsibilities to come through.

More of a question than a comment. As a member of the BOT in a Mass. condo complex I have asked for a breakdown from the management company concerning Employee Leasing - they charge us but do not pay the entire amount to the employee, all we want is the breakdown of what they keep and what they pay the employee - do we have any rights to get that information? They hide behind a privacy law but do not quote which one - BC

The Management Company is a contract service responsible for providing the services ordered ny the Board ofb Directors. It is no way suplants the board and has no direct authority of it's own. It acts on the specific direction from the Board and is responsoble only to the board of directors.