I received a letter from the Millie Lawton at home owners association today saying that we had a recreational vehicle stored in view from the street (whatever that means!) We don't own a recreational vehicle, never have. Our neighbor 2 doors down does, and they never had it out front for more than a day packing it or unpacking it. The letter said this was reported or observed by Millie Lawton. If she observed it, she needs to go to the optometrist because her eyesight is not good. If it was reported to her or anyone else at the association for that matter they should probable confirm the information being reported before taking any action and sending a threat. read more

I don't even know where to BEGIN to express my disgust with Brown Community Management. From HOA notices sent out to several neighbors over grass, while the rest of the neighborhood is trashed... to shutting our pool down for several months a year because they're too lazy/cheap to maintain it, the problems never end with this company. I received a notice in the mail saying I was a YEAR behind on HOA fees. After providing MULTIPLE forms of proof that I had paid it, there's still no apology, they still haven't fixed it. The "VP of Finance" even mansplained to me how to read a bank statement because even after providing proof he thought I was incorrect. "There's two columns, one is for credit and one is for debits. The credit means it was added TO your account. Are you sure it isn't in the credit column?" Literally mansplained credit and debit to me when THEY are the ones who made the mistakes (repeatedly over a year's time). Even the secretary is rude when calling. Whole company needs an overhaul! AVOID AT ALL COSTS. read more

The property manager does not return my phone calls and has stopped returning my emails. My pool is green, again. read more

Brown Community Management - The pool company they hired allowed this to happen to my pool in July. That is black algae not dirt. Now it is green again. - Homeowner Association Near Me - Mesa, Arizona

As a member of a community that has contracted with Brown Community Management (Pointe South Mountain) I WARN EVERYONE to steer clear of any neighborhood HOA using this company. I would not have purchased this home if I knew about Brown Community Management. As you can see, the majority of compliments are from contractors or employees that being paid by this firm (via HOA dues). The people living in these communities and paying dues to support Brown Community Management do not feel the same satisfaction. The attitude of disdain this company has for the community (HOA dues paying community!!) is incredible. Your HOA budget will be "milked" for whatever they can imagine and you (member) will be treated as an inconvenience to them should you need anything. This company depends on homeowners and board members who are not educated on HOA laws and works their advantage whenever possible. They "nickel and dime" for every little thing. I suggest you use Associa, City Property Management, 360 Community Property, Arizona HOA, etc. ----any other firm but this firm. You do not want to live in any community managed by this company. read more

horrible HOA mgt firm, no contacts on their website? they dont want to talk to any home owner! taking money from me for false fines, will not answer emails, change contact info or anything else, time to get a lawyer and start using social media.... read more

Millie is so helpful!! Great management company!!

Zero rating if I could. Useless. Inaction on reported topics important to homeowners. Focus is myopic and limited regarding community progress as a whole. They do little to enrich and inspire the HOA Board with modern, progressive thinking or planning. HOA Board is the same group, year after year, all with stale mindsets. Neither side does much to hold the other accountable. Makes living here unpleasant and disappointing. read more

Our community seems to have a handful of random issues, that isn't Browns fault but the assigned community manager Aileen is always so prompt to respond and respectful! I know the issues aren't her fault and she does what she can to help our community and communicate with us. read more

I have lived in the Tesoro at Greenfield condo's for over 2 years and have been so pleased with every interaction I have had with Millie Lawton. I have nothing but great things to say about her as well as my community. Thank you Millie for always being prompt and helpful! read more

So, I was about to pay my HOA 6 months in advance and went online to do so and apparently am going to be charged a 25.00 "CONVENIENCE FEE" to make 6 months worth of payments ahead. PLEASE TELL ME HOW IS THAT CONVENIENT??? Get with the times and allow residents to conduct their business online without punishing them for it. It may be time to get together with other homeowners to request another management company. read more

I received a notice that my home needed to be painted (soon) , no date. Also, my wall needed to be painted. I painted it Frontier brown instead of Pioneer brown because I was confused at the store. So, 600.00 in paint. I am a 100% total and permanent disabled veteran. I put in a architectural form to keep my existing colors, denied. I asked for another form, still waiting. I spoke with an agent and he said if I couldn't afford the upkeep, move. So, I put my house up for sale. Now, they release to the Title Company I have violations? I have no fines, what violations? I have a non-compliance about the wall. Yes, thry are attempting to stop me from selling my home even though a male agent told me to move if I couldn't afford the upkeep..... Now they said to contact my case manager! I did, NO response! To amend this further, as of today, no resolution, no solutions offered. I was just told the Board meeting is July 15th, 2020. Nothing else, nada! I need a good HOA attorney. read more

Horrible service left multiple messages and still haven't gotten back to me. Management is very unprofessional

As the board president of a 132 unit HOA, I more than pleased to write a very positive review for Brown Property Management. We had another management company for many years, and didn't know what we were missing until Brown took over several years ago --- they're professional, responsive, and supportive, and they've made a significant contribution to our community's well-being. I can speak for our entire board in saying that we'd recommended Brown Property Management without reservation. read more

I wish we had a property management company that actually worked with the HOA and homeowners to better the community. All they want to do is collect the money and send out the letters. Take the money with none of the responsibility. They made it clear they have nothing to do with the HOA in regards to making decisions regarding the communities. They also do not seem to know their left foot from their right foot in regards to who does what or when things have changed. They allow their HOA's to violate the CC&R's but so quick to jump on homeowners for little things and shoot down their requests. It leaves no point in the homeowners actually caring about how their own communities look. read more

Absolutely THE WORST community management company in town and I've dealt with most of them in my career. Managers NEVER answer their phones, don't return phone calls and are over zealous about sending out fines to residence for tiny infraction. Pure greed and dishonesty. Can't wait until our lease is up so we can move out of this neighborhood. read more

Valerie Shoneley has always been helpful and polite on the phone. She has always answered all my questions. Brown is lucky to have her!

Every time I call this company my call goes directly to the property managers voice mail. I leave a message and I get no response! It has happened numerous times, either she's too busy to respond or just bad at her job. read more

I've worked here for about 6 months now. Say what you will about HOAs and whatever else, but the people here, in my experience, do their best to provide good customer service to homeowners. In addition, this is a great company to work for, so if you're looking, feel free to apply. They make an effort to make everyone feel part of the company and not just an office drone (which is how I felt like when I worked at Wells Fargo in a building with hundreds of people). read more

Our last management company did an outstanding job, so much so that they only raised our fees .05% in 10 years and had only made this increase for the 2019 year. Brown came in 6 months ago, why the switch was even made seems suspicious at best. They instantly recommended to our Board of Directors, who seems to be made up of their cronies, to raise our fees another 16%. So our fee has gone up 21% in one year's time. Something sure seems fishy. Their only good reviews seem to come out of Mesa. Hmmmmmmmmmmm!!! Sure seems shady!!! read more

I would give negative stars if it would allow. I have not been happy with this group or their communication after they somehow took us over from our previous management company, but under the State/Worlds current situation with the COVID-19 they were nice enough to kick a community down by sending out letters telling Homeowners they need to repaint their homes while everyone is closing their doors and self quarantine. To top it off they are giving us 10 days to complete this like that is even possible right now. They also cannot try to say these were done prior to all of this either because they are nice enough to stamp the letter with the date they were on the property and yes they walked on property because I have them on my cameras walking all around my yard that day. Shame on you Brown Community and Timothy Macia for allowing these letters to go out when so many families are out of work right now. read more

Brown Community Management - Copy of the letter - Homeowner Association Near Me - Mesa, Arizona

Living in Rancho Antigua Condominiums in Scottsdale. I've an owner living above me who has refused to repair an active leak since 10-31-2019. I've filed an insurance claim however that does not compel the owner above me to repair his leak. I've been displaced from my home due to the extensive damage, no working bathrooms, exhausts, water leaking in on live electrical junctions and saturation of ceiling joists (limited common element) yet Brown stated in an executive board meeting that they would NOT issue any demand for repair to the owner above. CCR's article 5 states HOA has the choice to write a demand to repair. Can assess fines. But instead Brown and HOA Board members would rather risk the tub falling through my ceiling or the building catching on fire rather than to simply write a letter demanding the home owner take responsible action and require he fix the leaking, if not for his own homes sake, but at least to protect the structure of building 10. read more

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I am an owner in a Condo complex managed by Brown CM. I have a simple overnight parking question, and have left four messages in four days. Wholly non-responsive. Please answer your phone. If unavailable, please return calls promptly. When I get on the HOA Board, first order of business is terminating the Condo's relationship with BCM read more

Would give them 0 stars if I could. Their general voicemail box has been full since I moved in 5 months ago. I have even left 2 messages on their emergency mailbox with no response. I am a current resident of Ciento West. Our water shuts off at least once a week for extended periods of time. I had to leave for work without a shower on three separate occasions LAST WEEK ALONE! There is never a posted notice when the water is going to be shut off. There has only been a notice posted once, and it stated water would be shut off Tuesday the 17th, when the 17th wasn't even a Tuesday! There is almost always flooding on the sidewalk due to sprinklers. We may as well not even have an HOA. read more

Ive been in my condo for 6+ years and never had problems with Brown Community Management until Sherrie and Kim took over. They don't care about the tenants or communicating/responding to tenant questions and needs. Sad when someone's actions, literally make you want to move out of the home you spent years creating because there is a lack of care on their end. If you have the choice, I would advise not to use them or live in places they aren't managing. read more

Their office staff was extra quick, courteous, and efficient in helping me get my Architectural Request for House painting approved and in my hands in time for my painting contractor to begin work. Thanks again Kevin and Nancy! read more

They are Horrible at taking care of their community's They only seem they do well is colloect HOA fee's and nickpick home owners when they don't even take care of common areas. They have no follow-up with lanscapers sub-contractor taking care of common area's. Bushed are over grown covering 1/2 the sidewalks. Tree are so thick that the weight is ready to break limbs at the next storm and they don't care. Ruts from equipemt and never followed up to get them filled in and people can't use common area for fear of twisting ankles. Run-off drains so back up create mosquito breading area (city have cited them several time for health hazards) My neighbors and I have all been wrote for single weeds in rock area around our home. We all recieved noticed for pulling trailers in front of our home (for less then a couple of hours) to load RV or cargo trailer for weekend camping or buiness trips. One neighbor got wrote up for a pre-school kid's play basketball hoop in front of their garage, that they use almost every day. Cause they didn't think it was appropreiate to have in the neighborhood. If I could give them zero star's I would they are a money gubbing business that don't care about the homeowners in their community's. read more

Worst property management company ever! They do not advocate for you (the property OWNER) when dealing with their shoty contractors, they expect you to take time off from work (knowing you will get FIRED for doing so) instead of working around your schedule to take a look at interior damage caused by a two year old "new" roof that wouldn't be leaking in the first place had a real professional done the work. They have no empathy and refuse to work with you, leaving you to live in a toxic mold paradise because after having been laid off for 3 months and just having started a new job last week, you are going to get fired if you come in late, take a long lunch, leave early or request time off to meet them at your house to let them in between 7am and 3pm. They don't advocate for the residents paying them HOA dues every month. In fact, I think they could really care less about us. read more

Horrible company.. The gate to our neighborhood is constantly broken and has to be open manually when it gets could outside. The hot tub has been broken for weeks and has not been fixed. Management is a nightmare to deal with; I put in a service request on November 20th and never saw any action take place. When I followed up about this I spoke to Tim Macica, the Senior Vice President, who very rudely informed me that my service request was not important enough for him to schedule a contractor in the past month and that I would have to wait another month before they could schedule service because the contractor had "extenuating family circumstances". This company is good at two things; 1. Cutting small areas of grass 2. Collecting their dues read more

I purchased my condo in 2005 and have had about 3 management companies, all with their own issues, and Brown doesn't disappoint. I am not going to say I have never been late on my HOA, but it has been a year since I was late and when I am late it is just a couple of days. I was late in March, paid it the first week of April and sent extra to cover the late fee. I was contacted repeatedly by Robert, I wasn't sure why, but I did finally connect with him. He mentioned I was late in March, I agreed, he wanted to know when I was paying April. Now, our HOA's show a due date of the 1st of the month with a "grace period" of the month, if paid after the last day of the month a late fee is assessed. So, I was confused as it is still April. I told Robert they would most likely be paying it next payday, and I explained to him that my husband was recently diagnosed with cancer and we are living in a nightmare and the doctor appointments are financially draining us. He responded with "can you give me a date when you will be paying?". I already told him payday, I had also told him when payday was. I could see if I was chronically late or if it was May and I had not paid April. Brown Community Management, you must have better things to do than harass homeowners, may I suggest you deal with the roof rats that moved in!!!! read more

I moved in April 1. Supervisor Larry Burns never told me new swimming pool keys were out. Not doing his job properly. When I emailed the company, staff Bailey Thompson offered to mail me the keys. Bailey is prompt to reply. read more

Highly unprofessional. HOA meetings are a joke. No one with an 8-5 job can attend because they hold them during the day. Updates aren't sent. Money goes unaccounted for. Staff is less than pleasant to deal with. I find it odd that none of the reviews are being shown to this company. read more

Living in the area for 2 years. This past 2 months have received "warnings" regarding parking on landscape (in front of our RV gate - date of said incident had landscaper backed in to trim palm tree) , Unapproved window covering / actually a USMC Curtain on a garage window which dubs as my gym and has been there for over 2 years , and Draining pool in retention area. Letter states to drain pool into the roadway, which Chandler does not allow, and of which, would drain directly into the same exact retention area... Sent an email as how to advise , any cleaning of erosion from draining pool, that is a locked non public access retention area. Multiple tries to contact with no responses. Completely unacceptable. read more

Since I was notified that my previous post did not meet requirements and was taken down - my hand was forced to rewrite review with additional information. So here goes. Issue: Computer crashed. Passwords to all websites gone. When it was time to pay my monthly HOA fee - I wasn't able to log in to website to make payment. I contacted Brown Community Management around Feb 10th. To be more specific, I left a message for Jennifer. A week later I didn't receive a returned call from Jennifer. I called back to Brown Community Management around Feb 17th. I spoke with Elizabeth. I told her my issue. Since, I was routed to Mutual of Omaha's (MOA) website and it was the username and password for MOA - Elizabeth sent an email to a representative at the bank. A week later no response. I sent an email to Elizabeth around Feb 24th. She responded to my email and included another staff member (Jennifer). The same staff member who did not return my call. Anyhow, Elizabeth advised Jennifer to help me with the community's website. On March 4th, Jennifer responded back in the email advising me that the "website is currently not available. It is being worked on, As soon as it is ready to go all the homeowners will be notified..." I respond back with the following: "How will the homeowner's be notified? My issue is having password reset - not whether the website is up and running. I believe I left you a voicemail back in the beginning and my phone call was not returned... I want to ensure this issue does not get prolonged..." Her inappropriate and condescending comment back to me: "I am not certain how I would be able to reset your password if there is not a website available? If you are aware of a way to do that please let me know and I would be happy to reset your password. My personal comments: I completed graduate school - and I wasn't born yesterday. My issue has gone on for three weeks at this point! I wanted my issue addressed sooner than later. Jennifer blew me off - was condescending towards me and DID NOT put the customer first. After several emails back and forth - I went to YELP. I made a 1 star review on Brown Community Management. At that time, and only then did an employee of Brown Community Management reach out to me and actually place the customer first without personal attitude. A VP ended up getting involved and communicating with Elizabeth and Jessica to resolve my simple issue of HOA payment. As a business graduate, think of the opportunity cost I had to forgo as a result of poor communication, miscommunication, poor customer service, and lost customer trust. I have spend quite a bit of my valuable time getting a simple issue resolved. I make a decent hourly salary - imagine how much money it would amount to if I billed them my hours lost due to this issue. Poor business operations that's evident! This company has lost my trust! The audacity of the VP to ask me to remove my review after he resolved my issue. I informed him that as a business there is always a cost to poor service. Shared on my twitter feed as well to spread the word. Christine, MBA read more

As everybody has said, I wish there was a zero star for a review. This is the worst property management company I have ever had to deal with. They never return phone calls, they sent out bogus notices to addresses with no viable proof that the property is in fact violation of something. They say it is not cost effective to print out a photograph and mail it with the violation to the address. There is obviously favoritism for certain residents in the community. The community is slowly looking like a ghetto. Lack of rock in certain areas, badly trimmed landscaping makes the property look old outdated and unmanaged. Too many unmanaged rental properties with blight conditions around entire sub make it look horrible. All in need a painting. They do NOTHING for what we pay them. read more

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Customer Focused: I received a collection due from Brown Community Management for a rental property I rent out. Knowing that I have auto-pay since Brown Management took over in June, and that I had automatic check writing from my bank, I was puzzled. I wrote an email to Valarie Schonely, the Brown representative. After the thanksgiving holiday, she promptly replied, from back and forth exchange of information, we identified the missing payment month. With support from my bank, I showed her that my check was cleared electronically by the previous property manager's office. She quickly went to get the bank record from the previous manager and found that the check was applied to the wrong unit. I was credited back the late charge promptly. Her diligence saved me a lot of anxiety and unnecessary dispute with the company. Thank you. Valarie! read more

Once again another problem with this company. Fined for landscape after they were notified of landscapers plan for removal and replac. During the summer charged for my boat. Charged when it was attached to my truck and when we use it every other day. Discussed need fines removed but won't have a meeting because of covid yet won't do Tele or web conference. Come on catch up to 2021!! To add insult you can park a massive RV on your side yard but not a boat!! Tried to pay dues but told they would only go towards fines first. No response to several emails. We pay 15k a month for landscaping that we see once a month and still have unkempt nature walk same down trees for months no plant replacement and charge extra for oversees. We have a 30k reserve and a tiny park. Before recently the president of the hla didn't even live in the neighborhood. This HOA is a joke!!!! read more

To summarize the 10 reviews here, which are very consistent: 1. Zero stars would be more appropriate, if not less, 2. Their people are ignorant beyond belief, 3. You may never encounter worse service from any company, 4. Favoritism shown to a few homeowners is grossly unfair to the majority, 5. Why they continue to be hired to manage our property is a head-scratcher. 6. You should RUN from this company's properties as fast as you can. I have received the same treatment from these amateurs for years here in Fountain Hills, AZ. How they keep our HOA in their back pocket is a mystery, but it is a very disturbing question. Their expense claims are outrageously high, while they keep the property in awful condition. They harass homeowners at random with false claims, ignore reasonable requests for service, kiss up to Board members at every opportunity, and take forever to perform simple maintenance tasks. I do speak from experience because I am an experienced real estate professional. What more is there to say? Drop-kick these losers from your property the first chance you get! read more

I manage properties form several communities and their follow up time is always lagging days, if not a week plus behind any other management company I've dealt with. They blame it on the fact that they manage over 200 communities (so do my other companies and they get their stuff done). Apparently, they allow their customer service to greatly lack as they are well over their caseload. Do not let them represent your community or you'll be sacrificing homeowner's/pm ease and happiness for tons of poor service and frustration read more

Worst HOA experience ever. From every inept employee they hire to the continuous waste of homeowners money by endless non-applicable made up pathetic excuses to try and fine anyone and everyone in the neighborhood. Its a complete disgrace to every homeowner in Dana Ranch. read more

I'm a owner of a condo in Monaco South Condomnium, and I would like to say thanks to Michele Lockhart for the great job that she's been doing at getting Monaco south condominium looking much better. Great job on the painting, stucco replacement, the new pool furniture and the gym equipment replacement. Also, the grass, the trees, everything look really good. Great job to you and your team. I would also like to say that Michele is very approchable and will always returned your call or email. Great Job Michele. read more