Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: HOA fees

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

Turns out Coho/US and the Cohousing Research Network just completed some 
research on this topic, and reported out the key findings at the Nashville 
conference in May.  For a quick summary, see ...

        http://www.cohousing.org/Cost_of_Living_Part_1

… and …

        http://www.cohousing.org/Cost_of_Living_Part_2

A Part 3 will appear this fall.  I may have some detail if you have more 
specific questions.

Thanks,
Philip Dowds
Cornerstone Cohousing
Cambridge, MA

> On Aug 25, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Beverly Jones Redekop <beverly.jones.redekop 
> [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You could make a survey asking about monthly amounts for landscaping,
> private home repairs, common house repairs, private home insurance, snow
> removal, private internet, etc... The total is not very meaningful. The
> individual items might not be either...!
> 
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 9:56 AM Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah <welcome [at] olympus.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Maraiah here-- part of RoseWind Cohousing Port Townsend WA for 28 years,
>> followed other communities that long too.
>> 
>> It's really hard to compare assessments across communities, as what is
>> covered varies enormously. My community has relatively low assessments--
>> about $100 a month per household -- but we have no expenses for snow or
>> leaf removal, no communal property taxes (all paid individually), no
>> community responsibility for maintenance of individual homes. We fund
>> reserves, liability insurance, landscape maintenance equipment, utilities
>> for the common house (no air conditioning cost, less heating cost than
>> northeastern groups, for example), and various committee expenses.
>> 
>> To get any useful information, I think you'll have to be much more
>> specific in your questions. What specific expenses, for how many
>> properties, in what climate, etc. There are so many variables!
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