[quote=sdnerd]Maybe I’m the exception – but I want an HOA.
For $80/mo the neighborhood stays nice, and the parks are maintained. I know my neighbor isn’t going to paint his house pink, park cars on the lawn, line his roof with antenna dishes, or start selling clothes out of his garage.
I’ve seen the house in CV where every weekend they open a clothing store in their garage and on their driveway. I’ve seen the pink house in Del Mar. I’ve seen 5 cars fit in a 2 car driveway in Mira Mesa.
$80/mo on a 700-$800,000 home? Sign me up!
Nobody likes MR. But if you want a newish house in a top tier school district your choices are pretty limited. 99.999% of people write it off come tax time anyhow, so the couple hundred a month at the end of the day isn’t all that bad.[/quote]
My argument is that the same level of service would cost less than $80/month, or that you would get more for $80/month if you had market forces other than cronyism at work. Redoing the community website to even crappier product while breaking the backward compatibility and forcing the subscribers to re-subscribe was unnecessary, but it was not free.
E.g. with middle and high school south of Del Norte I’d like to see a pedestrian bridge between 4S Ranch Parkway and Craftmans Way.
People who live on Abundante have to walk 1 mile to get to the mall that is on the other side of their backyard fence. Stairs would cut that to 100 yards.
With $3MM/year you can do some nice things.
And if they require pre-approval to repaint the fence they need to have the color code – how can they approve if they don’t know the original color?
