A. I don't believe in leaving negative responses. It takes too much personal energy and I believe what you put out into to the world is what is returned to you. However, enough is enough.
B. This company is horrendous.
C. This is not the first instance of less than favorable service that my community as a whole has experienced with them, but this is the first time that I have been frustrated enough to take the time and effort to write a complaint.
During the blizzard, the residents at Westphalia Row have been trapped in our homes b/c the snow removal that we pay for as part of our monthly HOA has not bee adequately performed. Our community lay out is primarily city style town homes, so we have two car rear loading garages. Neighbors' garages face each other which makes for a "city alley situation". 99.9% of the time, this works pretty well. As part of snow removal, we are supposed to have the sidewalks interior to the community and each town home's individual front walkway shoveled to our front doors and our alley's plowed so that owners can reasonably navigate in and out of our garages.
The shoveling has happened, and it is satisfactory. However the plowing situation is deplorable. Period! It's not even that the contractors have not come, it's that they have come several times, however I've personally witnessed the truck drivers repeatedly enter the community an not lower their plows (AT ALL). What does this mean? No snow is being removed from the alley so that owners can leave their homes. The streets interior to the community are not being plowed and are unsafe. Our community is not exactly metro accessible, so if you can't drive away, you can't leave. I've called the Comsource business office several times over the past few days and they have been closed. There is no answering service, we can't leave messages, there is no protocol to address or follow up with their clients?!?!?! It may be reasonable for no one to be in the office given the road conditions, but no one is working remotely to take client calls, address emergencies, conduct general business....It's 2016! I find that hard to understand!!
Overall, this is a new construction community. That said, though I've lived here for more than 2 years, it's still an active construction site. There is always construction debris blowing around the community, debris from the construction crew's meals, dead landscape plants, nails in the community's interior road ways which have lead to tire pops (I've experienced at least 2), etc. Though I suspect that that Comsource's landscaping crew is supposed to be addressing these issues, I take it all in stride. Owners all do our part to take care of our community which includes picking up trash, sweeping areas that need to be neatened, etc. We care about where we live, so we do what we have to keep it up. I attribute it to the growing pains of living in new construction. But ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! Leaving owners trapped in our homes (3 days after the storm) when per the HOA docs they are solely responsible for snow removal is something that I am not willing to overlook. I am going to see what the procedure is for installing a new HOA. I'm over Comsource.
If any builders are reading this, please don't do business with this company. You don't want your buyers who don't understand the difference between the different parties involved in real estate, specifically new construction communities to associate your company with Comsource. Maintain your company's product, reputation and market position. Comsource is literally a liability to your bottom line. read more