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But owners are paying one way or another, and it's almost certainly going to be more efficient to have administration centralized rather than each subdivision's
by thfuran 11mo ago
But owners are paying one way or another, and it's almost certainly going to be more efficient to have administration centralized rather than each subdivision's HOA separately managing a tiny section.
- crooked-v 11mo agoHaving the HOA pay for it preserves the illusion of "low taxes". When taxes go up to pay for necessary services, politicians get voted out of office and people vote en masse to lower taxes again; when HOA fees go up, people suck up and pay it.
- Retric 11mo agoIn practice HOA’s are just another level of government in that they hold elections, get policing power, provide services, and collect taxes.
- monknomo 11mo agoright, if you must pay either way (and you must), it makes sense to push it off to government, which is more representative (generally) and has larger scale (so should be able to do it cheaper). I suspect local governments tend towards less corruption than HOAs as well (fewer large contracts to a brother-in-law, or at least, a public bidding process so you can see what happened)