by Legend In Your Own Mind on May 1st, 2009

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In a "gated" community who pays to maintain the streets since the public isn't allowed to access those streets? Taxes or the "gated community"?

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by Anonymous on May 7th, 2009
Welcome to the scam that is HOAs! Builder are allowed to bypass some zoning bylaws and the municipality gets to add to the tax base....but not have to provide the expensive services like maintain the roads or the infrastrucure! You on the other hand pay the full tax burden...AND the HOA fee to!
Meanwhile there is little to no state oversight of where your HOA money is going. Just try to ask to examine the books! You will find yourself getting notices of 'violations' and fines for your transgressions. Then try to call the Attorney Generals office for help...They will tell you to hire your own attorney to the tune of 20-30 thousand dollars!
HOAs are a scam that enriches lawyers and property managers to the point where they have formed THEIR OWN LOBBYING ORGANIZATION! The Community Associations Institute makes sure that NO laws are passed that provide oversight, constraints on board power, election fraud protection...on and on.
The more conflict the better to HOA attorneys...and conflict is what HOAs are ALL ABOUT!
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by TheicidalManiac on May 1st, 2009
Typically the homeowner's association.
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- Do they pay to construct the streets, plumbing, electrical lines, sewage, etc? I don't see why not if they make their own laws
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  by Legend In Your Own Mind on May 1st, 2009
- The only gated community that I am familiar with DOES, in fact, have to pay for all of that on their own...however this is one big-ass gated community (it's actually a private ski resort that you can build houses on.)
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  While in a regular gated community road maintenance would probably be the responsibility only of those who have access to the road (the home owners), I can't say that I know where the city sewer or gas demarcation points would be. Basically, if you build a house, you have a water meter, a gas meter, etc. Everything UP TO that meter is the city's responsibility, and everything AFTER the meter to your home is YOUR responsibility. The meter is called the demarcation point, because it is where responsibilities change hands. I don't know if, in a gated community, the demarc is at the gate, or at the individual houses, but in those cases I don't see why it would matter. Those people don't get to use YOUR gas line, but their taxes help maintain them. It's a municipal system.
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