Amenity Fees - YIKES!
 

Recently moved from Richmond to DeLuna. Richmond amenity fee was under $200, just got our first bill for DeLuna and Amenity Fee for May is $526. What's up with that?

Update:
As suspected, even though it said 'Amenity Fee May', it was the combined fee for part of March, then April and May.

Best guess: multi-month assessment. Call and ask or wait to see that next month is normal

Could be, although it just says May. I'll call them tomorrow.

My first bill included, if I recall correctly, the amenity fee plus water/sewer for the 3 weeks remaining in the month after I closed plus the next months amenity fee.

The following month the bill was regular.

Just the amenity fee or the entire utility bill?

We are De Luna residents, this month’s amenity fee was $202.25. It came out on our VCDD bill which was $452.39

What are we talking about here? We are in our 20th year living here now and our amenity fee is $195.00 a month. Our total VCDD bill which includes the amenity fee usually totals around $275. a month. To get to 4 to $500 a month you would have to be using a crazy amount of water.

When we first moved to the Villages in 2021, our first bill was over $527! And we hadn't even moved in to the house yet!! The amenity fee alone was $417. We had closed in July so we had to pay for part of July, all of August, and all of September.

The next month it was about $240. The amenity fee was $164.

Wow, our amenity bill is always between $300-335. The water/sewer portion of yours has to be huge.

The first month bill includes more than 1 month of costs. It will resolve by itself.
Also, everybody pays a different monthly amount for the amenity fee. There is a stupid process that creates a different cost, even though all the amenities are exactly the same for everybody.

Perhaps some do their investigation by asking questions of those who already live here.

So many discussing water, sewer, etc. while the original post specifically calls out the amenities fee — not the total bill. Ugh!!

As the poster discovered, it was a multi-month “settling” that occurs during a home purchase. The same happens with HOA bills but that is wrapped into closing disclosures.