First Service Residential

OMG, I dont even know where to begin! I’ve never seen such an incompetent company «managing» anything in my entire life! Too much to go into here, but suffice to say they do NOT give a damn about enforcing your CC&R’s, believe me, you will have to call them, take photos, sign your name to documents, etc. regarding any and all infractions that have been clearly visible to all for years and then they will go and tell those people your name!!! I’ve been documenting and complaing, writing, calls, etc. to them for YEARS now about rivers of water running down our streest from old, broken, unadjusted sprinklers that water our 500 acres (nope that wasnt a typo!) of GRASS in our common areas, but they will not listen to me, and its even illegal now. But thats nothing. They ran our annual election last month — I was asked to come in and help count ballots by a candidate who happens to be a friend, shortly after arriving we discovered that the ballots had NOT been mailed to the Inspector of Elections as legally required — per the Davis Stirling Act — but rather had come directly to their propertly managment office. When the I of E found this out that night she declined any further involvement in the election and Representatives of FSR appointment ME as her substitute, to count ballots etc. I had NO idea what the legal implications were from doing that as I am not an attorney. FSR HAD an attorney there that night and not only was she ok with everything but she was also helping count ballots which she is not legally allowed to do. Fast forward, four hours later other issues were brought up, arguing at meeting, decided to put the election on «hold» — I found out that ALL those ballots should have come home with me at that point, I was not permitted to take them home. After getting home and reading the Davis Stirling act, I was appalled at what I realized they had done, or tried to do. I wrote their office several times within the next week to demand what legally needed to be done, they blew me off stating that because I hadnt been APPOINTED BY THE BOARD they didnt consider me to be the Inspector of Elections. So basically they knew from the beginning that it was illegal then since there was no I of E. Two weeks pass and they realize they are going to have to re-​do the election obviously. WE receive NO NOTICE of what has happened and this week at the meeting immediately following the election of last month, we find SECURITY GUARDS at the board meeting. We also find the attorney, the one who was counting votes, telling everybody that they were NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK OF THE ELECTION — AT ALL, Nor was anybody allowed to video tape, as we had planned — wasnt this a «public meeting»!!! One of the candidates who is a friend of mine and had received enough votes to be on board, couldnt make the meeting, but her in-​laws let her know they had decided to «appoint» her to the board (there are two vacant seats besides the three that will be voted on), obviously so she will not work against them from this point on — she will be in the extreme «minority» on the board now — I dont envy her. Everything this company does is illegal and yet what recourse do we have? They use OUR money to pay attorneys to work AGAINST US! I’d love to hear from anybody who knows where we can get help for these issues. Low or no cost attorney would be wonderful. Most people in our HOA have NO IDEA whats going on there — they only know what they’re allowed to know. Complainers are dealt with on an «individual basis» and silenced.