Melrose-Sovereign

The owner Jack Hanson has to be the worst guy I have spoken to today. He was so rude. I was simply doing my job which is in customer service not the best line of industry but as a business man you would assume he can be understanding of protocol. But no the second he heard something that he didn’t like he said he would contact the president of my company. Sir I am just doing my job. Calling you off if the list I was given by my boss do not take it out on me for doing what I was told.

This association is terrible. The president of our chapter is notorious for snooping around back yards and doing personal favors. The dues and budget are outrageous and I suspect that these personal favors extend outside the community as recently I noted a $ 10,000 payment for the install of 2 small security cameras that record the post office boxes. There is a high foreclosure rate in my neighborhood and much of it is rumored to be delinquent HOA fees. This does not stop the establishment of section 8 housing in the neighborhood and there have been trap houses run by teenagers that pop up here and there that pedal heroin. Additionally businesses have no problem storing their vehicles in the visitor parking areas. The association has done little about this in the last five years. At a time when most other communities are relaxing their monthly fees due to deflation this management group seems to demand more from its residents as its frivolous spending has no end in sight. At a collection rate of $ 265,000 a year and $ 108,000 reserve the group spends %100 of its funds on such things as 2 Security Cameras ($ 10,000) Landscaping ($ 80,000) Mulch ($ 15,000) 1 pressure washing treatment ($ 15,000) and over $ 30,000 in management fees. The one thing that they seem to have no tolerance for is the individual’s use of their own land, deed restrictions allow you to do more than watch the grass grow and be cut again rendering your ability to increase your land value useless. This is one of the most overbearing and poorly managed communities I have lived in. It’s no wonder that nobody can sell a house here.