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Post by beaglemom on Sept 26, 2022 0:51:19 GMT
We moved and now live in an HOA. Fine, whatever. But they have decided to use a "management company" for dues payments and other things. We got the first thing in the mail today for the year's dues. It came with information on how to log on to the site to pay and update information.
The website is seriously from the early 90s. The pay my assessment link that was in 3 of the docs doesn't work and returns "Service Unavailable HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable." There is no way to update your profile information. There is a drop down form to send an email with questions. If you try to edit your message, ie move the cursor to fix something, it makes the entire email box go away and you have to start over.
I am all for going electronic, but for goodness sake please make sure that the tech was designed at least in the last 10 years. I can't believe our dues are going to pay for something this crappy.
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Post by Embri on Sept 26, 2022 1:06:01 GMT
That sounds like a security nightmare. I wouldn't trust submitting electronic financial details to such a shoddy site. Can you mail them a check instead? Seems weird to me that you'd even need an outside company to manage something as simple as payments once a year.
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garcia5050
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Post by garcia5050 on Sept 26, 2022 1:07:42 GMT
Have you tried a different browser? That’s my usual go to action for something like this.
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Post by beaglemom on Sept 26, 2022 1:26:57 GMT
Have you tried a different browser? That’s my usual go to action for something like this. I'm usually totally resistant to this, since if it doesn't work on Chrome I am not sure why I should bother. But I tried anyways, since I hadn't thought to till you mentioned, still doesn't work. I will be mailing my check! What is crazy is the dues are much lower than the last place we lived $xxx for the entire year vs $xxx+$100 per quarter where we used to live. It seems crazy that they need a company to manage it.
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Post by keithurbanlovinpea on Sept 26, 2022 1:57:02 GMT
Management companies track payments and past due accounts, send demand letters and refer to the attorney for collection. All stuff no one on the board wants to do since they are all volunteers
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Post by questioning on Sept 26, 2022 15:06:48 GMT
Management companies track payments and past due accounts, send demand letters and refer to the attorney for collection. All stuff no one on the board wants to do since they are all volunteers Definitely this! beaglemom since you are concerned about your dues paying for it, are you willing to pay more for better software? Or volunteer for the financial committee, or to be Treasurer? Our Treasurer had to make individual trips to the bank to deposit checks from slow payers back in the day - and there was always someone complaining. Electronic is much better. Ask your neighbors, if it's an antiquated system they have been using it and might have tips.
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