Quote Originally Posted by chmura
I have had TONS of issues with mine.... lol

some horror stories.....

overall though they are there to keep the neighbourhood in order, and are a good thing... whatever money you put into it Kristi is still gonna be there in its account so I would not worry....

and instead of bitching about it... join them and see how it is on the other side.....
i wanna be apart of the HOA. but they haven't handed it over to the residents yet. They said once the neighborhood was 95% complete - they would. well my n'hood is 100% complete, but since there are 3 n'hoods all together, they want us to share an HOA - and they haven't even started building one n'hood and the other is like 50% done. so it will be awhile before we can join them.

its crazy tho - 270 homes total in the 3 n'hoods - and a pool that isn't even a junior olympic size - makes sense huh?

the budget for it is way off too! they are charging $5000 a year in pinestraw, $1000 a year in postage (which there is maybe 2 letters sent out per year), $19000 a year for the lifeguard, who only works during the summer and from like 2-6 pm. (I want that job - great money). they are really ripping us off. we are also paying for a recreation area (playground and stuff) which doesn't even exist!