02-17-2013, 12:56 PM
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Originally posted by Chunkster
If I had it to do over again, I would strongly consider someplace other than HPP. IMO, it is worth paying more up front for a property with county amenities than buying into a disfunctional HOA.
But where else can you get an ACRE + in a subdivision that has county amenities and is as close to Hilo as HPP is?
I agree with you tho, on finding someplace else rather other than HPP. I bought a lot for 8K in Ocean Shores Washington. They had the same thing going on. Except they made it so you could pay the road taxes in 5 years. So naturally most people waited to pay the road fee's for 5 years and when it come time to pay the 2-3K bucks, people couldn't afford to pay it all at once and ended up selling.
I thought it was a pretty good at the time because the roads were all paved but they found a way to get another tax going as they had to dig up the road to maintain water lines or do this or that. It was always something. So they hit everyone again with fee's ... Never mind paying the mandatory fee's like for the swimming pool and park ... It was just a never ending tax on top of taxes.
If you think "When they get done paving my road fees will go back to normal fees" THINK again. I'm sure they will come up with something to collect that $$$ so it's just an ongoing fee that never ends and of course every year those fee's just keep going up and up.
Anyway, I ended up selling in Ocean Shores after paying thousands for taxes and fee's ... I didn't see the value of owning a vacant lot. It would have been a different story if I had lived there. I can only imagine what all the people that don't live in HPP are thinking when they have to pay those fee's and don't even drive down the roads!