how we grade the money side
Halk, Oetinger & Brown (formerly Brown Law Group, founded 2006) built what it describes as Arizona’s first contingent assessment-collection program: instead of billing the association hourly, the firm advances the cost of collections and recovers its own legal fees directly from the delinquent homeowner. By the firm’s own account that ties its revenue to pursuing owners who fall behind — the legal fees land on the homeowner, not the HOA. A collection model built on the homeowner rates a D- on this lens. (As attorneys the firm is exempt from collection-agency licensing under A.R.S. § 32-1004.) Labeled opinion / fair comment; facts are from the firm’s own description.
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