Save your money and self manage. They like to use the same vendors (landscape & trash) for all their associations regardless of price. If you go out for bids, they will alert their vendors and conveniently forget to include specific items (maps/no of households, etc.) so that you will not change. Attention to detail is horrible. Save your money and self-manage. Using Maredith is like flushing $15K/year down the drain.