Originally Posted by
joe d.
"You mentioned a $250 per month association fee; $3,000 per year. The average new patio home in Lancaster right now is selling for $300,000. The buyer will be saving $2,880 in taxes; $290 per month. Are you seriously telling me that $250 per month, or even $290 per month, is being spent for services not provided for by the town? I think not! I hope not as there are associations getting less than $50 per month in tax breaks and have like expenditures."
A portion of the monthly payments funds current and future road maintenance, sidewalk repairs (if any), annual snow plowing services, future infrastructure repairs, underground sewer cleaning, water line repairs under the roadway...these are items that must be put in escrow, no bonds, borrowing, and begging the politicos to do these repairs or maintenance is done. It is decided by whom and when these services are performed. There is no complaint line for potholes, , asphalt road sealing is generally performed every 2-3 years, keeping our roads in excellent condition. We are a community within a community who have more control over our homesite than a normal municipal village or town would or currently exists. All these amenities or advantages come at a cost, a cost funded by the HOA members, NOT the taxpayers in general, or the town sewer authority, or Erie Co Water Auth.
Painting a picture of unfairness without all the facts is a disservice to readers who have limited knowledge of all the facts.