Again, it's not "dinky" at over 4000 square feet, but it's certainly not practical at only ONE bedroom. Yeah, good luck reselling that condo, kids.
It's certainly not a family-friendly complex.
HOA fees get me, Oh the strange way we live.
Not a bouncy here. I bought my home 18 years ago and moved it onto leased land, called by some a Trailer park, mine has 3/4 acre of land. True I was the first to buy into the Park and some of the new comers have about 1/4 acre. Back then the price for a double wide home was from $80,000 to a triple wide at $150,000.
So, a few years after we moved in a snobby coworker was bragging about buying a Condo with about the sq. feet of my home for around $175,000 bucks. She looked down on me as I lived on leased land, and had to pay land rent each month.
Her HOA fee was about $150 a month my land rent was at $100 back then. My taxes a year ran at $1,400 a year as we did not own the land and we are a Donner town. Her taxes were at $3000 a year.
As the years went by her HOA fees kept going up to pay for a neighbors roof or what ever, her taxes went up and up. My land rent also went up slowly by $25.00 every 2 years until today when the land rent is at $350.00 a month and taxes at perhaps $600 more a year.
Her HOA is now at $550 a month her taxes at close to $5,000 a year. She has no land to plant a garden, no deck and cannot have have a dog . She had to get permission to fly the American flag and on holidays only allowed a small wreath on the front door, no outside lights.
Rules, cars have to be in the garage after 9 pm. and as this is a Hollie poly gated neighborhood all visitors checked in at the front gate. One cannot be in the neighborhood and decide to just drop in on them, in order to visit one has to identify themselves to strangers and have their licence plate recorded --time one enters and time one exits .
Now when she bought into the condo few of these rules were part of the sale, only as years went by did the HOA begin to enact the rules. She found that since there was a HOA she was not Grandfathered in as I am.
She bought a high priced place to eat and sleep, she looks down on ME yet I am free to do most anything I wish, no HOA to tell me how to live, I am free to do as per the rules when I first moved in regardless of the changes in the rules others have to follow when they moved in after I did. I am by law grand fathered in.
Best part is with a double wide when I can afford to buy my own land, I can have the home taken apart and moved to the land the same way it was brought in.
My snobby friend has had her condo on the market for 2 years and it will not sell for what she paid for it with the HOA and taxes added in.
Never, never pay good money for a home only to have strangers tell you where you can plant a tree or rose bush. The day comes when I have to ask permission to fly the American flag or put up Christmass lights is the day I will live in a tent.
