Rocky Mountain Monitoring provides monitoring services to the common areas and parking lots of condominiums, townhomes, apartment complexes, and various other private property communities. We work directly with Home Owner Associations (HOAs), property managers and private owners to ensure that the community is following the Rules and Regulations that are in place.

Our company has been servicing Home Owner Associations in Colorado for nearly 20 years. Some of the reasons for the success is in our approach to helping communities fix their problems and provide ongoing service to maintain the order the within the community.

The overall service concentrates on maintaining order within the community, so that each resident is allowed to utilize the property equally. Many of the issues we see within HOA communities, is there is always a certain percentage of residents or people visiting the community that abuse the parking rules that are set in place, and the remaining residents suffer from their actions. When multiple living units are in close proximity to each other, people rarely respect the fact that they all need to follow certain rules so that everyone has the opportunity to utilize the property the same way. This in turn causes frustration and other residents feeling as if they are being taking advantage of, by not having the rules enforced the way they should be.

Some examples of the problems we correct and maintain ongoing are:

1. Residents having extra vehicles that they store on the property. Typically, people who have numerous vehicles that they do not use on a regular basis, neglect the vehicles (having flat tires, no plates, inoperable, etc.) and they turn into an eye sore for the rest of the community, along with taking up parking space that others cannot use, as it was intended.

2. Fire lanes being blocked. This is something that many of our properties have enforced, because of the safety issues associated with it. Many properties were designed and set up with very limited space for parking and open areas within the community. This causes a unique problem when emergency vehicles need to respond to situations on the property, they cannot properly access the area that needs attention. If a vehicle is parking where it is not allowed to park and an emergency (fire, etc.) takes place, the fire trucks and other first responding vehicles can not properly do their job. This delay can cause an emergency to escalate into a much worse scenario, because of the vehicle blocking the emergency access to fire lane area. We communicate with the property manager or board to properly address vehicles in these situations, and maintain ongoing order to ensure the violation happens less and less, with the end goal of 100% of the time the violation is eliminated by the residents or visitors.

3. Visitor parking being abused by residents. This problem occurs when a resident continues to park in visitor parking for any number of reasons. It does not initially look like a major problem, but when unregulated the ongoing issue causes other residents to have nowhere to park, and this creates a situation where one person (the violating resident) to have the comfort and ease to park where they choose, and the other residents suffer when their guests need to park long distances from their destination. Depending on the layout of the property, this can make the visitor park outside the actual community or several blocks away.