Yes, generally.
Associations levy assessments against unit owners in order to pay for communal expenses. These might include:
When you purchase a condominium, review the governing documents to confirm that you will be responsible for assessments, and to understand what steps your potential association's board must take against you, should you fall into arrears.
Part of condominium life is freedom from exterior maintenance of your home. The price for that freedom is assessments.
Finally, when you purchase a condominium you become a member of a multi-million dollar (usually) non-profit corporation that is charged with the security, maintenance and preservation of the real estate assets that you own in common with all other owners.
Unless your community profits from rental of its amenities, its only source of income is association assessments.
Yes. Anyone who is thinking of purchasing a condominium unit must take the time to understand the various assessments that can be imposed by the unit owner’s association. There is some confusion as to the difference between regular monthly condo fees that must be paid by all unit owners on a regular basis and special assessments that must be charged off to unit owners when unexpected or extraordinary situations arise.
Regular or ordinary assessments called monthly maintenance fees, are used to pay for regular,ongoing operating expenses such as road repairs, utility costs, landscaping services, snow removal from parking lots and roads, security, contributions to the reserve fund and insurance for the common areas. The key to understanding condominium fees is to think of regular, flat monthly fees that are paid on a regular basis.
Special assessments are levied to pay for expensive, necessary repairs or improvements that were not part of the association's operating budget and not covered by a reserve fund. Special assessments can cover expenses such as large scale repairs, roof replacements, storm damage not covered by insurance or providing access to a municipal sewer system. Think of special assessments as being used to pay expensive one-time costs.
Follow the link below for an interesting discussion of condo fees and special assessments in the State of Washington.
The board or the association manager can answer your question.
A local realtor can help you understand the regular and special assessments for any condominium association in your geography. There is no standard.
Your governing documents are specific about your responsibility to pay your assessments. Sometimes, assessments are due on an annual basis and payable monthly.
my condo association already has a lien against 2 condos who are seriously delinquent in paying their services fees. so now how do we get our money since they are ignoring the lien? a.k.
A local realtor can answer your question.
Homeowner association fees are NOT deductible on the individual taxpayers 1040 income tax return.
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When you buy a condominium, you automatically become a member of the association. You can 'get out of the declaration', and all the other governing documents, by selling your unit. Otherwise, you are legally obligated to honour the governing documents.
A local realtor can help you find the association you want.
Read your governing documents to determine how the fees should be charged, whether they should be charged to a limited number of owners, or to all owners in the association. Apparently, a citation was required to settle a difference of opinion among owners, or between owners and the board. Yes, this is association business, and yes, the fees should be charged to owners.
If one is going to find information on condos in Ottawa the best place to check is the website Realtor. They offer information on all the condos that are in Ottawa.
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