Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: HOA dues for children/teens at what age?

[Mac Thomson (mac]

Our dues are based 50% on number of people in household and 50%  
divided equally per household.  We count babies as soon as they're  
born.  I have 3 kids under 12 and I'm OK with counting kids.  In some  
ways they are more destructive and costly to the HOA.  I would guess  
we get our fabric covered chairs in the CH dining room steam cleaned  
each year more as a result of kids using them than adults.

We've never had a real problem with counting the number of people.   
Our definition is:  "The census of how many people are living in each  
home is updated at the beginning of each month. A person is  
considered to live in the home if they are expected to stay more than  
90 days."

The result is that our HOA dues range from about $100 (1 person  
household) to about $200 (6 person household) per month.  That result  
seems pretty fair.  Our HOA dues pay for water, roads, septic, trash  
collection, common house, workshop, greenhouse, pasture, hot tub,  
etc.  We are a rural community so our HOA provides services like a  
small town would.

Cheers,
Mac

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Mac Thomson

Heartwood Cohousing
Southwest Colorado
http://www.heartwoodcohousing.com


"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
        - Benjamin Franklin
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On Jul 19, 2007, at 4:16 AM, cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:26:49 -0600
> From: "ANGELA SULLIVAN" <angelapaul32 [at] msn.com>
> Subject: [C-L]_ HOA dues for children/teens at what age?
> To: <cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org>
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> I'm wondering at what age your community starts considering  
> children/youths as dues paying individuals.  Currently, our HOA  
> monthly dues are based partially on the number of people over the  
> age of 12 in the household.  This seems way too young to me.
>
> Thanks for your responses,
>
>
> Angela, mother of a 12 year old.
> Colorado Springs Cohousing Community