De Camara Management

Note: I held off writing this review until I had at least six months of experience with this management company. I really wanted to give them a positive review as I’m sure it is challenging running such a service and I do appreciate what companies like this do in general. However getting back to your customers and at least setting expectations for when problems can be addressed is not too much to ask. Background: Many of us home owners were hoping for an improvement going from a one person management company to a larger one that appears to have 10 or more people working for them at DeCamara. Sadly I can't say there's been any improvement. there’s so many things to go into I’ll just have to put them down in random order. 1. Oversight: rancor in board meetings is allowed to run rampant wi

After mentioning multiple times to De Camara Management that portions of our paneling was rotton and needed to be replaced they ignored my statements and approved our home to be painted over. They painted over our rotten paneling without replacing it! Basically all of my inquires regarding anything have been ignored by them.

Avoids phone calls from customers who need them to actually do their job, never provides any notification to homeowners when they plan to do work to the buildings or structures. For example we noticed down the street they started painting and redoing siding on a few houses (which they didn't even do properly) and we figured they would contact us before they made their way towards our part of the condo complex. But in typical De camara fashion they start roping off a chunk of our parking lot to bring in construction equipment before even telling us what they were doing or what time period they planned on doing it. They hire a landscaping company that comes out every week yet somehow plants are always dead or dying, then they let newly installed irrigation lines continue to water these dead

So a contractor was hired about 1 month ago at Green Meadow Drive and was making repairs to several decks. They were using old, chipped wood to fix the decks. I notified DE CAMARA MANAGEMENT several times about this hazard but have yet to receive a call. I know this is a liability issue because I have worked in the construction business. This is a picture of the wood they are using. To add on, the wood is surrounded by a fence that is taking up 2 entire parking spots in the neighborhood. As you may know, parking is terrible. Good luck finding a spot past 4pm :) everyone double parks, and the Watsonville Police Department cannot do anything about it because De Camara Management does not enforce parking rules ANYMORE.

De Camara took over my rental condo management and I am extremely disappointed on it's HOA payment process. During the change of management company my direct deposit of HOA didn't carry over. After 13 months later I found out my account was sent to collection agency with large amount fees and late fees. Despite of my request to communicate online or phonecall the company only sent snail mails of bills to the address where I dont have regular access to. 3 weeks after I paid the full balance to the collection agent my De Camara account still showed huge balance and no emails of any further HOA statement I requested.