HOA Landscape Maintenance

The landscaping line is usually the largest thing on an HOA budget that the board can actually change, and it’s the one residents comment on most. Common areas, the entry, the detention pond edges, the median down the main drive. When those look neglected, every board member hears about it.

We maintain common areas for associations across the Houston area, both self-managed boards and communities running through a management company.

What boards usually call about

The entry looks tired. Monument beds are thin, the shrubs have gotten leggy, and it’s the first thing anyone sees driving in.

Service has gotten inconsistent. The crew shows up on a different day each week, or shows up and skips half the scope, and nobody can get a straight answer about why.

Nobody on the board wants to be the landscaping person anymore. Volunteer boards turn over, and the treasurer who used to chase the contractor moved away.

The contract renews soon and the board wants to see what else is out there. Most associations look at this once a year, and the useful window to compare is well before renewal, not the week of.

How we work with a board

You get one point of contact who has walked your property. Not a call center, not a rotating account rep. When a board member emails about a bed that got skipped, the person answering knows which bed.

Scope is written down before anything starts. What’s included, how often, what isn’t. Boards change members every year or two, and a scope that only lives in somebody’s memory becomes an argument at the next annual meeting.

Extra work gets quoted and approved before it happens. No surprise line items showing up on the invoice for a board to explain to homeowners.

We’re family-owned, so when something goes wrong you can get the owner on the phone. That’s a real difference from the regional operators, where an unhappy HOA is one account out of several hundred.

Common areas we maintain

Entries and monument signs, medians and right-of-way strips, pool and clubhouse grounds, playground and park areas, walking trails, detention and retention pond banks, and the perimeter fence lines that nobody thinks about until they’re overgrown.

We work on commercial and institutional properties only, which includes association common areas. We don’t maintain individual homeowner lots.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you work with self-managed associations? Yes. Plenty of our HOA work is with boards running the community themselves, without a management company in between.

When should a board start looking at landscape bids? Earlier than most do. If your contract renews in January, the useful time to walk properties and compare is early fall, while there’s still enough season left to see how a property actually looks under its current care.

Will you come to a board meeting? Yes. If the board wants to talk it through as a group before deciding, we’ll be there.

Can you take over from our current contractor mid-contract? That depends on your agreement with them, and it’s worth reading the termination clause before anything else. When the timing works, transitions usually start with a catch-up visit to get the property current.

What does a walk of the property involve? We come out, look at the common areas with you, and talk through what’s working and what isn’t. It’s not a sales presentation and there’s no charge. If a proposal makes sense afterward, we’ll write one.

Do you handle the pond banks and detention areas? Yes, and they’re worth putting in the scope explicitly. Detention areas are a frequent gap between what a board assumed was covered and what the contract actually said.