Community Association Management in Denver and Along the Front Range

Most boards do not come to us because they want a different logo on the monthly statement. They come because vendors are going unpaid, the financials arrive late or arrive wrong, and the board president has quietly become the manager.

ACCU, Inc. has managed Colorado community associations since 1979. We are family owned, we work in Colorado only, and we manage communities across the Denver metro, the Front Range, and the Western Slope. 

Our mission describes how we split the work: Business Management for your Association, Neighborhood Management for Homeowners. Your association is a nonprofit corporation, and it needs real business management behind it. Your homeowners need a neighbor who answers the phone. Both halves get staffed.

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Our Services

Community Management. Full-service management for condominium, townhome, single-family, mixed-use, and master-planned associations.

Consulting and Accounting. In-house GAAP accounting, audit coordination, and financial consulting. See our HOA accounting and financial services.

Construction. Capital project oversight, bid specifications, and contractor management. See our construction and project management division.

Developer Services. Budget setup, governing document support, and transition to homeowner control.

See our developer HOA services.

What Full-Service Management Covers

Every managed community gets governance support, financial management, homeowner communication, vendor procurement and oversight, onsite inspections for CC&R compliance, covenant enforcement, and project management for capital improvements. Boards that want accounting support without full management can contract for that alone.

The organizing idea behind all of it is simple. We are your agent, and it is your community. The board sets direction. We bring the structure, the documentation, and the follow-through, and we tell you what we actually recommend rather than what is easiest to deliver.

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A dedicated manager and a dedicated assistant

Each community is assigned a Community Association Manager who handles board-level work: meetings and board packets, inspections, vendor oversight, budget preparation, and governance guidance. That manager is paired with an Assistant Community Association Manager who handles the daily volume, meaning homeowner calls and email, violation processing, service requests, and architectural review submittals.

Two people, one community. Boards arriving from a company where one manager covered a dozen associations notice the difference in the first month, because the person who answers the homeowner is not the same person preparing your budget at eleven at night. This is also the resident office support layer that a full-service HOA community service provider is expected to carry, and it is staffed rather than promised.

Right-sized for communities of any size

We manage associations across a wide range of unit counts, and manager portfolios are balanced by door count rather than by community count. A small association is not the account that gets skipped when a larger one has a crisis, because the workload math is done on doors. Boards searching for small HOA management companies in Denver are usually asking one real question, which is whether they will be anyone’s priority. Portfolio balancing is how we answer it.

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Community Association Billing Service and Assessment Collections

Our community association billing service runs through our in-house accounts receivable team, not an outside bookkeeper or a collections vendor. One team owns the full assessment lifecycle, which means one team is accountable when something goes wrong.

Owners receive monthly statements and can pay by ACH, e-check, or check through lockbox processing. Delinquencies are tracked on a 30, 60, and 90 day interval structure consistent with current Colorado collection requirements under HB 22-1137. Before any formal collection step begins, the owner gets a courtesy notice, which is our decision rather than a statutory one, because most delinquencies are an oversight rather than a refusal. Payment plans are coordinated through our accounts receivable team. Nothing goes to an attorney or a collection agency until the board has reviewed the account in executive session and directed it.

Boards do not wait for a monthly packet to see where balances stand. Delinquency reporting is live in the portal.

Accounting Built In-House

Robert Raak, CPA, is our Chief Financial Officer, and he oversees a dedicated accounting department with separate accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger, and banking specialist roles. Financials are GAAP compliant. Each association holds its own operating and reserve accounts, and funds are never commingled or held in a joint homeowner account.

That separation of duties is the part boards tend to appreciate later, when a question about a single invoice can be answered without anyone reconstructing anything. For budget preparation, reserve-forward budgeting, audit coordination, and financial consulting, see our HOA accounting and financial services page and our guide to HOA financial management best practices.

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HOA Community Maintenance Services and Capital Projects

We take responsibility for common area maintenance and coordinate the vendor trades an association actually depends on, including landscaping, snow removal, trash, HVAC, roofing, paving, and street maintenance. Contracts are managed on the board’s behalf, vendor performance is reviewed against the contract rather than against a general impression, and inspections confirm the work matches the specification before an invoice clears.

For larger capital work, our construction and project management division prepares specifications, calls and levels bids, issues contracts, and oversees contractors through completion. That work stays in-house, which keeps the board’s project manager and the board’s community manager in the same building.

Governance, Compliance, and Colorado Law

Colorado changes the rules on community associations regularly, and HB 22-1137 reset covenant enforcement and collections practice for every association in the state. We prepare meeting notices, proxies, and agendas, attend board meetings, assist with elections and vote tabulation, maintain the association’s document files, and administer the community’s rules and regulations as the governing documents actually read.

Karli Phifer, our Chief Operating Officer, served as President of the CAI Rocky Mountain Chapter in 2023 and as Treasurer in 2024 and 2025, and she has served the chapter for a decade. That keeps us close to the legislative conversations before they become compliance problems. 

For a plain-English overview, see our Denver HOA rules and regulations guide.

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Transparency You Can Check Yourself

We were roughly the nineteenth customer on Vantaca, and we have built our internal process around it since. The board portal gives 24/7 access to live association bank balances and an interactive income statement, which means a board member can click any general ledger line and see the individual invoices behind it without asking anyone. Work orders carry a chain of custody. Architectural review submittals are tracked. Delinquency reporting is live. The annual plan calendar shows what is coming.

Transparency claimed is worth nothing in this industry, because every board we meet has heard it before. Transparency you can open in a browser at ten at night is a different thing.

Denver Association Management Across the Front Range

Denver association management is the core of our business, and Colorado is the only market we have ever worked in. We manage condominium, townhome, single-family, mixed-use, and master-planned associations in Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Thornton, Westminster, Arvada, Broomfield, Centennial, Wheat Ridge, Brighton, and Golden, with communities in the Boulder corridor and on the Western Slope in Grand Junction, Montrose, Durango, and Bayfield.

Denver condo management carries requirements that single-family associations do not, including shared building envelopes, reserve pressure on roofs and mechanical systems, and insurance questions that arrive with a deadline attached. We manage both, and we staff them differently.

Our office is at 1873 S. Bellaire St., Suite 1500, Denver, CO 80222, near I-25 and Colorado Boulevard. Among Denver HOA management companies, being local is not a marketing line for us. It is why a manager can be standing in your community the same afternoon. 

For local detail, see our Denver HOA management page.

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Community Events and Resident Engagement

Community events management for an HOA is a real operational function, not an afterthought, and boards trying to rebuild neighborhood culture after a stretch of thin management usually need help doing it. Our Lifestyles Management division, directed by Amanda Phifer, supports event budgeting, insurance coordination, scheduling, vendor booking, and post-event review, so a summer social does not become a liability question nobody asked in advance.

Why Boards Choose ACCU

We are family owned. David Phifer founded the company in 1979, and it is owned and operated today by James Phifer and Karli Phifer. No private equity firm owns us, and the company is not for sale, so a board signing with us is not eighteen months away from an acquisition that changes the manager, the software, and the service level at once.

Expert HOA management shows up in credentials and in tenure rather than in adjectives. Robert Raak holds an active CPA license. CMCA credential holders on staff include Samantha Avila, Cheryl-Ann Adams, Tim Atkins, and Melissa Stern. Karli Phifer’s CAI Rocky Mountain Chapter service is described above.

Read more about ACCU, Inc., meet our management team, and read board member testimonials from communities we manage.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • 1. Is ACCU owned by a private equity firm?

    No. ACCU, Inc. is family owned and has operated continuously in Colorado since 1979. The company is owned and operated by James Phifer and Karli Phifer, and it is not for sale. Boards ask this in almost every introductory call, because acquisitions in this industry have a track record of changing service quality without warning.

  • 2. How does the transition from our current management company work?

    We start by qualifying the community, meaning we look at the governing documents, the financial condition, and the board's expectations before we propose. If it is a fit, onboarding covers records and financial transfer, setup in Vantaca, bank account establishment in the association's name, welcome packets and payment instructions to owners, and an introductory meeting with the board.

  • 3. Who do homeowners contact day to day?

    The Assistant Community Association Manager assigned to the community, for service requests, violation questions, architectural submittals, and account questions. Homeowners also have portal access for payments, documents, and requests at any hour. The Community Association Manager stays focused on board-level work.

  • 4. Do you manage condominiums as well as single-family associations?

    Both, along with townhome, mixed-use, and master-planned communities. Condominium management carries different reserve, insurance, and building envelope demands than a single-family association, and we staff and budget for those differences rather than running one template across every community.

For more, see our HOA management frequently asked questions.

Request a Proposal for Your Community Your Community

A proposal request starts a conversation, not a contract. We qualify communities before we propose, which means the first call is about understanding your situation and telling you honestly whether we are the right fit.

ACCU, Inc. 1873 S. Bellaire St., Suite 1500 Denver, CO 80222 Phone: (303) 733-1121 Email: support@accuinc.com

Board members and homeowners in communities we manage can log in to the portal at portal.accuinc.com.