Jeese, 1900 is alot. I don't pay it, but would not like to be hit with this every year.I want to get a feel for the average costs out there:
Ill start ball rolling if anyone else is interested in seeing this:
Beds: 2
Location: Dublin North
Total units: 200
Fee last year: ~1900
very curious to see nationally and around Dublin how others fair using the above simple criteria.
thanks
MB
We live in a (non gated) privately managed estate of about 140 townhouses and the annual fees have never been agreed at the AGM (which takes place mid year) but rather by the board of directors having outlined the budget for the forthcoming year (usually year end with fees invoiced at the start of the year). I guess it hasn't been a contentious issue to date because the fees have always been around the €200-€300 p.a. mark. We don't have the same common area issues that an apartment development might have and most of the cost would be public liability insurance (no block insurance), maintenance/repairs (including gardening) and agents fees.there is also the problem at management AGM's where owners tend not to attend and fees are generally agreed upon at this meeting.
We have a similar problem - houses with no garden spaces in front who pay the same fee as others who do and who benefit from the basic gardening services provided. This has been raised at a few AGMs but it was decided to keep the fee standard for all units and people just seem to have accepted this.But my apartment has a direct entrance from the outside of the building and is on the ground floor so I don't think it's fair that I should have to cover costs of maintaining lifts and corridors that I don't use.
Do you never use the lifts at all (e.g. to access common areas such as roof gardens?). If you think it's unfair then you should voice your complaints at a general meeting and, if necessary, propose and get support for a motion suggesting that the fee be tailored to each dwelling type based on the services that they actually tend to use/benefit from.The fee is calculated based on how many bedrooms so a person living on third floor using lift every day in same size apt as me pays same fee. Does anyone agree or disagree that this is not fair?
Do you never use the lifts at all (e.g. to access common areas such as roof gardens?). If you think it's unfair then you should voice your complaints at a general meeting and, if necessary, propose and get support for a motion suggesting that the fee be tailored to each dwelling type based on the services that they actually tend to use/benefit from.
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