Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Counting the # of Residents for Calculating HOA Dues in a Condo Building

[Janet E. Boys (janet.boys]

We have 3 parts to our HOA dues.
1 - WIFI fees - same fee for each unit
2 - We are part of a master association which has fees per bedroom.
3 - Our own HOA dues which covers insurance, our management company, and all 
utilities (gas, water, electric) except for electricity drawn by plug and 
socket inside the units. Even though the utility usage would vary by number of 
occupants, we charge by square footage. That is mostly fair because heating and 
cooling, our largest utility expense, varies by volume of the unit (among other 
things).

Personally, I would love having individual meters for water, water heating and 
HVAC instead - but the developer did not do this. Our heating system is 
supposed to detect that one unit is cold and another is warm and move heat from 
one to the other. The only gas we use is for the common stove and heating our 
water.

Changing the HOA dues by number of occupants would be difficult to do with our 
management company and would make budgeting difficult. Prior to cohousing when 
my husband and I were getting solar panels on our roof and wanted to qualify 
for a rebate, the installers were astounded that we used less electricity (not 
for heating) in a bigger house than their record-to-date skimping little old 
lady. Children are even harder to account for.

Janet Boys
Aria Cohousing Community
Denver CO


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From: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l-bounces+jboys=temple.edu [at] cohousing.org> on 
behalf of Alice Alexander <aliceanne4 [at] gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2021 10:19 AM
To: Coho-l <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Subject: [C-L]_ Counting the # of Residents for Calculating HOA Dues in a Condo 
Building

A question for those cohousing communities that live in a condo or
multiresidential building, and jointly meter utilities and building costs
(or anyone who knows of other communities that are similarly structured):

How do you count the # of residents in each condo for the purposes of
calculating HOA dues? Specifically:

* Owners (and when they are away, renting or not renting, does that number
continue to be applied or is it increased or decreased?)
* Children - do you count children and if so at what age?
* Renters - how do you count those renting? or is it covered via # of
owners?

Many thanks.
--
Alice Alexander
Durham Cohousing
Durham, No Carolina

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