FCS Community Management

FCS Community Management, Draper, UT owned by Michael Johnson is incompetent and dangerous. How FCS Community Management is approved by Gephardt Approved signals that Gephardt must approve just about anything. FCS was hired by our HOA in September 2013 and has been one disaster after another dealing with FCS Community Management. The HOA appointed Michael Johnson, president of FCS as its registered agent to maintain the HOA’s Department of Commerce HOA Registry registration and the HOA’s Non-Profit Corporation registration. Since appointed in September of 2013 FCS/Michael Johnson has allowed the HOA’s HOA Registry registration to lapses beyond the 90 days on three occasions compromising the HOA’s collection of delinquent HOA fees. And, this is a company that boast of have extraordinary knowledge of Utah HOA laws. At the HOA’s Annual Owner’s Meeting in January FCS Community Management presented a year-end statement and balance sheet that was an absolute disgrace. The statement clearly showed that FCS does not run a trail balance to make sure monthly HOA fees are correctly assessed because the monthly and year-to-date revenues do not match the monthly assessment times the number of units. FCS even failed to show some $12,000 in water and sewer collection as income on the statement. FCS had the monthly and annual reserve fund contribution shown as an operating expense – although, they failed to expense anything in violation of IRS Ruling 70-604 and Utah statute. Since FCS took over the HOA’s accounting they have failed to assess the HOA’s collection policy on delinquent HOA fees—causing the HOA to lose $1,000’s in annual income and compromising the HOA’s collection policy. FCS with all their boasting violated the reserve fund accounting requirement of IRS Ruling 70-604 and UT Title 57, 8 by not maintain a separate accounting and last year moved $52,000 out of the reserve fund to the general fund in violation of the UT statute and the IRS Ruling and possibly creating a tax liability for the HOA. The HOA reserve fund was represented on the FCS statement with a $61, 000 shortage. When challenged FCS refuses to respond and while the board says some corrections were made FCS refused to provide a corrected statement and balance sheet. As noted by some other on this website FCS has a totally ignorance attitude toward Homeowners. They have told Homeowners they had missed a payment—when they hadn’t – and then say they will call them to straighten things out and they never do. The HOA has a dog prohibition and when residents call FCS and complain they are told to call the police when enforcing the dog prohibition has nothing to do with the police. I could go on with chapter and verse but these a bad people. They claim to be the only Utah management company certified by the Community Association Institute (CAI and Utah Chapter of CAI) but if FCS is an example of what certification means by CAI they we can only thank our lucky start FCS is the only one. I would not even rate FCS with one star.

Carl Boyer

Homeowner, North Ogden, Utah