So we just received our quote to pay off the Mello Roos for the Stonebridge Community and I’m totally floored. If we would have paid it off in 2011 when we bought it was about $51,000-$54,000 depending on when we did it in the year. It’s now up to $68,000 (and change) to pay it off. What’s more depressing is not only did it increase by $17,000 from when we could have paid it off but we’ve already paid about $40,000 over the last 7 years. Ugggg So when we stroke the check for $68K now it will be over $108,000 that we’ve paid into the fund. Neither of our 2 kids attend school in the Poway School District either so we’re not even reaping the benefits/rewards. We just re-fi’d our home about 2 years ago to a 15 year fixed @ 3% so at least we’ll have the house paid off sooner than originally planned and don’t have any plans to move so I guess it was a sound investment to make the decision now to pay it off. Just a very painful choice to wait instead of paying it off 7 years ago.