LAS VEGAS (KTNV) – A $ 2,000 home painting during a pandemic can take a large part of your budget. Just ask several owners who live in a Rancho Silverado community.
They are upset with a letter from the property manager asking them to paint their houses or face fines.
“I was shocked. I was shocked that it was a ten-day letter of compliance.”
Mary Koos has lived in the Silverado Place community for over ten years and says she has always followed the rules as a homeowner.
She was shocked to receive a letter asking her to paint her house or face possible fines. The letter states that she must respond in ten days.
Koos says other neighbors received the same letter and are all struggling with finances because many of them lost their jobs during the pandemic.
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“How are we going to make a budget for this, with my husband unemployed,” she said.
Koos says members of the board of the homeowners’ association are trying to help her and were unaware that the letters were initially sent. She estimates that a new painting would cost between $ 1,500 and $ 2,000.
It is an investment that she says she cannot pay now.
“Painting our house would take away our emergency funds and leave us with nothing,” she said.
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A property manager at Finest Properties in Nevada said about 30 homes received the letters.
She says they were told to the community as a whole that before that it was time to paint their houses.
The letters were sent individually when it was not done saying it is the owner’s responsibility.
She says that no one is being forced to paint their homes in the short term and has granted extensions from six months to one year.
Koos says there could have been better communication from the property management about how to work with them.
“I think a follow-up letter saying that they will be willing to work with them and give them up to a year would definitely help our community,” she said.
In the end, Koos got a one-year extension from property managers to paint his home.