12-16-2020, 08:06 PM
(12-16-2020, 06:36 PM)Obie Wrote: I'm not sure where you got your info but Seaview and Ainaloa have much lower fees than what you posted.
Looks like Obie gave me my answer here, and I see Ainaloa CA lists their official HOA fee as 170/year, or about 14/mo. Oddly, several Ainaloa houses listed on Zillow all agree in listing the monthly fee as 64/mo, so I'm not sure why they are in agreement about this mistake, but it does appear to be a mistake, maybe just typing 6 where they meant 1, repeated by coincidence? Likewise, one Seaview house I looked at on Zillow gives the HOA as 68/mo, but looking around further I now see several others which agree on 4/mo, which makes much more sense. Again, a puzzle where the 68 comes from then, since if the others are accurate that's more than even the yearly fee would be, though I don't see where to find that on the Seaview CA website. But in any case, the higher figures do seem to be mistakes, and these subdivisions indeed have lower than average HOAs which is what I would expect given the smaller lot sizes.
Many of you expressed concern that I was focusing too much on HOA fees, but again, I was never focusing on them as my main factor, just trying to understand one puzzle which is now resolved. Thank you Obie!