One more oligarch to worry about. Can there be a more quintessential exploitative, punitive, legally evasive institution than this? The mafia? drug cartels? Human trafficking? See this is a little hard, because...YOU CAN REASON WITH CRIMINALS. Platinum management is a different breed entirely (they get exponentially worse as you go up the chain of command) In jail, you can at least haggle, barter, make friends, words serve value. On the streets even sticks can win against people with guns (True story) but with Platinum Management, you can do neither.
Throwing people into collections in order to foreclosure (yes they can foreclose on your house) for hidden infractions (a bush or tree obstructing say one of your property address numbers) racking up 10000% in fees and fines in excess of your monthly payment. Hot D*** not even the mob boss or the kingpin could ever dream of such PROFIT!
I am not sure there is any nation left on earth where this level of usury is even possible....But this IS the USA so...as long as their CEO rakes in millions...whatever
You will call in, be told its the weeds, you offer to pay then $300 now (even when your not technically late) they will collect it...throw you into collections anyway...where you will pay an additional 1400 to whatever else it was....oh that's right....the REAL PROBLEM was the bush....apparently you requested photos of your property they took a year ago, the images were sent via email 2 months after your original call in request. Yup turns out you should have known about that bush all along....all fees, fines, penalties, charges, etc. and now owe 1000's and that is if you can ever get out of collections without being thrown right back in (mathematical errors, The HOA was never informed I paid off collections months ago but oh they have been charging you infractions and dues even though they are not legally responsible for taking your deed (meaning what they are doing is illegal as F!)
Who cares...because now that your past due...guess what? Collections again? I pay all my other pills on time (and technically platinum Management) and After paying close to 3000 I owe another 2000 + Collections fees again? 3rd time is a charm right?
If you have ever thought things like oh I dunno collections warnings letters ever had to be delivered to you certified...not with them. (they will still charge you for attempting to send that certified letter mind you.
Whoever was the woman higher up (Sarah I believe) is one hell of a nasty person. Recommendations: Don't argue the law, they will twist it, and they know they can steal your house. Don't use logic, like a rattled mud laden piglet in its pen...don't chase it...you are just going to em' skiddish! Don't go with the hardship angle either Sarah will only demean you further, yelling at you for telling your story "how DARE you try to USE your MOTHERS ILLNESS AS AN EXCUSE AS TO WHY YOU WERE ABSENT from receiving mail...MY MOTHER JUST PAST AWAY SO HOW DARE YOU! THIS CONVERSATION IS OVER! *click* True story.
P.S. It was also Sarah who informed me that any warning letters, notices are a courtesy, they don't have to do it....they can start slapping you with $5 $10 a day fee for each infraction . They will still charge you for them, you cannot opt out. Sarah made it a point to threaten me with forever fees...because...she has that power to do so. She absolutely does not give a S*** if you have to functionally starve for the next 6 months...
(But that's kind of the point)
This HOA does NOTHING for the neighborhood outside of making its residents lives far more worse. They hire a team, perhaps twice a year to trim trees that line the streets and mini parks. They work a total of maybe 10 days the whole year. The rest is spent on a call center to assess fees and fines and on a truck to take photographs of your house (biweekly) so that they can assess more fees and fines.
You pay them monthly...so they can exist to find ever more cunning ways to charge you fees and fines. (THEY will do absolutely NOTHING to attend to anyone's property. Vacant house...who cares about those weeds bringing they neighborhood value down? Well it's not the HOA's problem right? No ones there to collect anything from.
And that is the brilliance of their scheme...THERE IS BIG MONEY IN FORCLOSING ON PROPERTIES...especially if there is equity...LOTS OF EQUITY...That equity becomes THEIR PROFIT, see how it works. and I'm a prime target. Your misery...is their cash.
If you have read this far....and ANY of this caused you to emote....anything...even if it was just for a second...congratulations!
You have shown more humanity and empathy than whoever is actually managing this place.
It does make me wonder.....considering the stress hell and honestly personal embarrassment these people have caused...the crushing pointless financial hardship for letting a bush grow...me surviving off peanut butter for weeks...you gotta wonder...have they driven anyone to suicide? read more