Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: HOA Dues survey

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Robert Heinich wrote:

> Quoting Sharon Villines "In the past people have posted extremely  
> low HOA dues but they have no common house and are lot development  
> models so they have few common costs to maintain."

> So I believe you meant to say that just knowing the aggregate  
> amount of one community dues may not provide enough info for  
> another community dues reassessment.

Yes, what I meant was that you have to know what HOA dues include in  
order to compare them.

In a lot development model, for example, even if you have a common  
house, the maintenance of the exterior grounds assigned to individual  
homes may be maintained by them. In ours all the plants and mulch and  
lawn feeding are paid for by the community. We pay for all the  
exterior painting and fence maintenance. We pay for childcare at  
meetings and very simple lunches on workdays but the vast bulk of the  
expenses are for facilities maintenance and savings for major repairs  
and maintenance. And that average is about $300 a month.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing,Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org