Sandiego, apparently, since I consider a surprise $360 a month more on a mortgage to be a significant discrepancy and one that would personally affect my decision to buy, or at least the sales price of the home that may be involved just shows how poor, pathetic, and how peons like me shouldn’t be considering home ownership. I will now continue renting until I make it to full time a-hole status, and at that point, I won’t have any cares as to the details of a mere 23% surprise in my monthly home expenditures. I will then tell the poor renters looking to buy, that if they partake in doing some research and sharing it online with a few other interested parties who found it to be valuable info, then they too are just too stingy, and home ownership isn’t for the prudent or thrifty.

BTW.. wouldn’t it be nice if the several years you referenced regarding the assessments wasn’t 10 or 20, like they are in reality.