This OP is on a roll — first Healthcare rant and now HOA fees

[QUOTE=joelfmi;2178589]Knowing how much you’ll have to pay each month in homeowners association fees helps you understand your budgetary expectations. Plus, knowing what the HOA fees cover…..

Be sure your sins will find you out.
Specially on the internet, and TOTV!

Here we go again. This guy like to pot-stir.

You receive a bill each month for approx $240-$290, which includes amenity fee, water and sewer, trash pickup. Approx $170 of that is Amenity Fee (hoa sort of).

HOA Amenity fee all the same your paying for services

Mine is $182 a month

HOA fees cover not only amenities (club house, pool, etc.) but also things like landscaping and so forth. The HOA equivalent for The Villages is the amenity fee + the district assessment fee (which varies from district to district but also from housing type to housing type).

Call it what you want. Fee for HOA, amenities, license, registration, parking, ticket, fee, fine, disposal, etc, etc ...
They're all just taxes with a different name. Surely I'm not the only one that gets that am I?

You mean as opposed to receiving all those services for "free"??? Yeah, we all "get it"

Example/s. You buy your phone, you pay the monthly bill thru your carrier. What is the service fee you pay to Uncle Sam?
You buy tires, you wear tires out. You get new tires and pay a fee for the old ones... same applies to a battery.
You buy a car. You pay a tax plus a registration fee so you can get it licensed. You pay for a license to be able to drive it. You pay an outrageous amount of tax every time you fuel it up. You drive it on the turnpike and get charged to drive on the road you already paid for thru your fuel tax. And every year, you pay another 40 plus for a plastic sticker the size of a stamp so you can proudly display your having paid the renewal tax for something that's already been paid for.
Nothing is free but few taxes are called what they are. A tax!

Are you suggesting that we consider The Villages amenity fee that pays for 110 recreation centers, Community watch, some of the MMPs, landscaping, pools and several other things "a tax"????? Or is it a fee that pays for services??? It's more like paying for a ticket to see a show than it is a tax on gasoline.

Well you do pay a tax when you purchase a ticket for a show don't you?
To pay to use something is one thing but are you not taxed on the purchase?
You landscape your yard, the little ol ladies on the cart report it. You fight it. Now we all know how that's going to work out but do you think all of the people involved are volunteering? Even the lawyers that write the nastygrams? Where does that money come from?

I'm admittedly getting a bit off topic. All I'm saying is that there is an HOA and you pay for it. It's just a different name or acronym.

Of course there's a tax on the ticket. But the ticket is not a tax.

I would say more than “a bit off topic”.:wave:

I was told 4 yrs ago when I bought that my rate would never go above 5% a year..grandfathered in. They lied, a lot!!! Many are here on a budget and raising fees $21 a month plus is so wrong...