http://alstnprkngrfuge.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] alstnprkngrfuge.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2007-10-04 10:07 pm
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Condo management company recommendations

How much do condo management companies typically charge small condo associations (less than 10 units) for their services, such as a fee just to be the management, and for things like cleaning, trash removal, landscaping, and snow removal?  And does anyone here have a management company they can recommend?

Thanks!

[identity profile] arcanology.livejournal.com 2007-10-05 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
We are a small set of condos who had a management company... once they had run through our savings on projects (with them getting a cut for managing) they were uninterested in ordinary management. They tried to double-bill us on the way out. I wish I could remember the name to tell you to avoid them. A hard lesson learned but now we just pay a couple of our own, one to do light maintainance and hire out the larger and another to keep the accounts.

Being small means most of them will not be interested in you and the ones that will only so long as they can cheat you.

[identity profile] mattdm.livejournal.com 2007-10-05 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. For the amount of money they could get legitimately, it's just not financially viable to not try to screw you over.