I find Desert Vista at minimum complicit in my board not having transparency with the community. As the management company they own the task of sending out meeting agendas, community correspondence, and posting approved meeting minutes. Our community learned the extent of some community "tree maintained" 24 hours in advance that included the removal of 16 live mature trees. The agenda only listed "tree maintenance". The communication to the community stated there would be tree trimming and removals, with no specifics, and the meeting min posted just a week prior just referenced the bid approved without details as to tree removal. It wasn't till the trees were marked the day prior to the work that the community understood the scope of the work wasn't in fact maintance, but removal of 16+ living mature trees. The project was even moved up a week earlier not evening allowing for community to go to management office hours before the project began.
Multiple owners, including myself, reached out to the board, our property manager and the owner of Desert Vista requesting a pause to the work so that the community could understand the prudence of the work being done and to allow the community to respond. Desert Vista met those requests with radio silence.
I find this a breach of trust with a company that is managing my community and home. read more