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Neighborhood with HOA fees
Does anyone live in a regular housing neighborhood community with HOA fee's? I'm not sure what their called but I'm just wondering how they work and what you as a home owner in these complexes are responsible for? I have one by my house, pretty new but the houses are on top of eachother....
Re: Neighborhood with HOA fees
This!
If it's a mutli family, like condo/townhouse, HOA fees usually covers the maintenance of common grounds, and holiday lights, utilities of common grounds, if there is a common pool, pool maintenance, and exterior insurance of the units, hence their HOA is usually a lot higher than a regular HOA. For single family homes, it's everything mentioned above except the exterior insurance. Other things HOA pays for it's a gated neighborhood, it would cover gate maintenance and guard salary.
Our HOA does a weekly drive and if your house/yard is out of order you get a letter first, if you don't address the issue, then you get a fine. Some HOAs are more strict that others, and in some states HOAs are pretty powerful, sometimes too much power. Overall in my area at least, the houses that belong to neighborhoods with HOA keep their value better and are kept up better.
A friend of mine lives in a strict HOA, they had to get permission from HOA to put up a certain kind of outdoor furniture! Her neighbor built a super nice (and totally adorable) gingerbread style playhouse for her kids to play in and the HOA is sueing her for putting it in, long story short she is moving. I would read the fine print very well, as much as an HOA is there to protect the value of your home and investment, it can bite you in the butt!!!!
We live in a townhome and our $179 monthly HOA covers the pool costs, snow removal and salting (they even shovel our walk ways) all garbage, all water (I love this since I take long showers but also let friends use our washer who go to the laundry mat) and mulch every spring.