HOARDER GETS SYMPATHY BUT NO SLACK FOR JUNK COLLECTION
From the curb, Tom Taylor‘s home looks like any other mini-mansion in Top of Skyway neighborhood in southwest Colorado Springs. Tom Taylor's home near Orion Drive in Top of Skyway neighborhood in...
View ArticleHOA BOARDS GET ADVICE FOR SURVIVING ECONOMIC TURMOIL
The Rocky Mountain chapter of the Community Associations Institute, an umbrella group for homeowners association boards and management companies, is offering an educational seminar Friday, April 29,...
View ArticleIS HOSSEIN AN HOA TYRANT OR A MISUNDERSTOOD VICTIM OF HATE
Will calm ever come to the Sierra Pointe Condominiums? I’ve written about the 282-unit complex near Palmer Park several times over the years. It’s homeowners association is a chronic mess. It’s always...
View ArticleWILL WOODMEN HILLS COVENANTS EVER BE ENFORCED?
Woodmen Hills is a subdivision of about 2,200 homes in Falcon, an unincorporated community northeast of Colorado Springs along U.S. Highway 24. . NO, is the answer to the headline if a determined...
View ArticleSHOULD HOA MANAGERS BE LICENSED, REGULATED BY STATE?
Michelle Green Michelle Green has worked in the homeowners association management business 15 years. She manages the Flying Horse Homeowners Association as an employee of Hammersmith Management. It’s...
View ArticleEAGLE-EYE HOA CATCHES PAINT TRIM MISMATCH . . . 12 YEARS LATER!!
. Carol Zier was shocked when she opened the letter from her Villages at Sand Creek Homeowners Association management company and discovered she was being ordered to paint the trim on her little...
View ArticleHOA LANDSCAPE DISPUTE COULD COST FAMILY ITS HOME
Richard and Alisha Cuevas bought this home new in 2005. They may lose it in foreclosure after a dispute with the Northgate Highlands Homeowners Association left them facing $15,000 legal bill and...
View ArticleHOA BOARDS WILL SHARE DOCUMENTS, EMAILS, MORE
. If you volunteer on an homeowners association board, you better create a new email account, quickly, for HOA business only. And be prepared to operate with greater accountability to your fellow...
View ArticleHOA’S $50 PARKING FINE BALLOONS INTO THOUSANDS
UPDATE — UPDATE —- UPDATE In 2009, I introduced Side Streets readers to Ron Pace under a headline: “Pace is loose!” In the...
View ArticleMATTRESS RECYCLING BUSINESS GETS OUT OF NEIGHBORHOODS AND GETS BIG BOUNCE
Tim Keenan started a recycling business in his home. Six years later, Colorado Mattress Recycling has grown into a business with a dozen or so employees. It fills a 14,000-square-foot warehouse on...
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