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Gin,

Bogie provided a lot of good info. If you bought new in the past year, your bond interest is probably less than 6%. Depending on whether you are in a villa, designer, premier, or ranch your bond balance could vary from $13K to $40K. For a designer, your annual bond payment is probably somewhere between 1,000-1,500. In addition, each of us pays the annual CDD maintenance fee as part of our tax bill. This is approx 400-500/year and is paid whether you have paid off the bond or not. Both of these fees are collected along with your property taxes. Bills come out in Oct'ish with early payment option (and 4% discount) by Nov 30. Not 'fully' due until Mar 31 of following year (but no discount then).