How much is your condo fee?

[LadyyRedd]

And what does it include?

Mine is $132 per month and includes:

fire/hazard insurance
trash removal
water/sewage
snow removal/plowing - including sidewalks/front walks
yard maintenance, everything included except my flower beds
repairs needed to the outside of my house
and of course, community upkeep

My place is basically a townhouse - 2 levels, nobody above or below me, sliding glass doors, yard and patio - but the ones on my street are classified as condos, while all the adjacent streets are townhouses.

I guess if you have an HOA, post that too - but that's sorta different than a COA. I'm curious what other people's COA fees cover.

Kimya

 

[bicker]

We live in a townhouse condominium as well, very similar perhaps, and our fee is $300 per month and includes most of those things -- it doesn't include water/sewer for our home, and the condo itself built a well so the condo doesn't have a water/sewer bill anymore. The fee also doesn't cover trash removal since we got the town to provide that to us as taxpayers.

 

[LoraJ]

Mine is $156 which is pretty cheap for the area. It includes pretty much everything as in the OP.
I live in a brownstone with 7 units.

 

[ChibiJones]

Ours is a little over $200 because we have a 2-bed. The 1-bed units are around $180 if my memory serves.

Ours covers snow removal, grounds keeping, pool (with lifeguard on duty), tennis courts, health club, exterior & common area maintenance, laundry room maintenance, insurance on the buildings, and water.

 

[LadyyRedd]

It's higher based on the type of unit? What's the reasoning behind that? I've never heard of that. I thought an association fee was the same for all in the association. Interesting! I've never heard of a laundry room for a condo either. There's no washer/dryer in the unit? You do own the unit, correct? We just don't have those in this area, so I think it's interesting to see how it's done differently elsewhere.

Mine is VERY cheap for where I live. Condos a couple of miles away have a condo fee over $200 and include less!

There are only about 50 units here. No pool, as I'm sure it'd be higher if we had one.

Kimya

 

[LoraJ]

It's higher based on the type of unit? What's the reasoning behind that?

Ours is based on square footage of our units. Some people have 2 floors in my building and they pay about $100 more than I do. My condo is a loft and is considered a 2 bedroom, but I pay less than the 2 bedroom units in the building because of the square footage. And honestly I think my place is bigger than theirs. They don't seem to include my roof deck with the square footage either.

 

[tinaluis]

Kimya,
The larger the unit, the larger their % of ownership in the "whole" and the larger their assessment/fee. We moved out of our loft/condo in 1995 and ours was $167 and that included garbage, water, sewer, maintenance of common areas, and CCTV (security camera in lobby). I'm sure it's gone up a lot more since then!