With respect to representing homeowner associations, our goal to is to provide our clients with three services that we believe are of paramount importance to all Colorado associations. First, we place great emphasis on the collection of HOA delinquent assessments. Second, we strive to provide a full array of litigation and drafting services for our HOA clients, ranging from county court and district court litigation to drafting, amending and reviewing the association's governing documents. Third, we offer a variety of educational services that range from attending HOA board meetings to answer general questions to actually presenting seminars on various subjects of interest to associations including fair housing, recommended procedures, and collections.
Our chief goal is to collect delinquent assessments quickly and at a reasonable cost. Representing an HOA does not equate to running up legal fees just for the sake of generating revenue for our firm. HOA budgets rely on the collection of assessments and other dues and timely payment of assessments by its members is the lifeblood of a healthy community. Our primary job in representing HOAs is to resolve the delinquent assessments. Our entire business model is set up to accomplish that task.
We determine the collectibility of any given delinquent matter at every step of the proceeding and pride ourselves on utilizing the information we obtain along the way. Our firm prides itself on working hard to collect delinquent assessments prior to actually filing a lawsuit. However, when we are unable to accomplish that goal, we swiftly file suit and schedule the county court litigation so that we obtain a money judgment on behalf of your association as quickly as possible. From there, we use our collective experience to use judicial remedies to collect the judgments we obtain.
The two attorneys at our firm who oversee our HOA representation, Wes Wollenweber and Pete Muccio, have over two decades of combined experience in dealing with various kinds of debt collection. Wes and Pete have learned one simple truth about the collection of debt: creating a sense of urgency and crisis results in the resolution of the debt. To create that sense of urgency, the law firm has to make direct contact with the person who owes the debt and convince him or her of the need to resolve the debt now. This is true of all debt and is more relevant to HOA collections. Thus, we strive to make that contact with owners and resolve an HOA assessment debt without having to incur legal expenses whenever possible. We employ our philosophy at various steps of the collection process, including contact immediately after the expiration of our initial demand letter and not just after meeting the owner at court. However, if a matter has to go to trial, Wes and Pete have extensive trial experience, which means that they can take an HOA collection matter to trial in a cost effective manner. The bottom line for collecting HOA debt at our firm is collecting the money at the earliest opportunity possible and keeping the legal expenses reasonable along the way.
