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Originally Posted by Phanatic Luvr
JAYEROSE, I'm sure by now we all have you totally confused to say the least. What I have done below, to try and help you understand, is copied off The Sumter County Property Appraisers website (sumterpa.com), what roughly a Courtyard Villa pays yearly for their Non-Ad Valorem Assessments, then the second posting is for a Designer home and lastly what a Premier home would expect to pay. As stated above, this does NOT go by your home value but the unit in which your home is located. A unit is made up of a specific kind of home, Ex...Villa, Designer, Premier, etc..
There is also an Amenity Fee we all pay which is roughly $147.00 per month, which comes in your monthly utility bill. Hope this has helped.
Non-Ad Valorem Assessments
Levying authority
Courtyard Villa
VILLAGES FIRE DISTRICT 81.00 $81.00
JUNIPER SPEC ASMT MAIT @ 399.1800 $399.18
JUNIPER SPEC ASMT BOND @ 1086.0100 $1,086.01
Total $1,566.19
Designer
VILLAGES FIRE DISTRICT 81.00 $81.00
UNIT 152 SPEC ASMT MAIT @ 631.3600 $631.36
UNIT 152 SPEC ASMT BOND @ 1717.6500 $1,717.65
Total $2,430.01
Premier
VILLAGES FIRE DISTRICT 81.00 $81.00
UNIT 207 SPEC-MAIT @ 1497.7200 $1,497.72
UNIT 207 SPEC-BOND @ 3379.6700 $3,379.67
Total $4,958.39
And of course, these figures do NOT include your property taxes.
Just trying to be helpful!
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It would be interesting to know EXACTLY how the bond is calculated. For example, to use unit 218 as opposed to 152:
Designer
VILLAGES FIRE DISTRICT 81.00 $81.00
UNIT 152 SPEC ASMT MAIT @ 692.3600 $692.36
UNIT 152 SPEC ASMT BOND @ 2003.9400 $2,003.94
Total $2,777.30
This is 14% higher than unit 152
It seems that newer units have higher bonds, yet if they are using actual cost of building the infrastructure, given the nature of diesel fuel and asphalt, I would think those costs would have been higher when oil was $145/barrel
I suspect there is some strange formula at work, such as # of feet of road divided by # of homes in unit, but that doesn't explain why the premier units are double. Looking at the map of designer vs. premier units, I can find , at most, about a 20% higher ratio in premier units, but even that would not account for the lower cost of sewer and water connections to less homes in that unit.
So, my new suspicion is that the average value of a home in a given unit is playing a role in the calculation, yet another "progressive" tax and income redistribution.