mglunt
join:2001-09-10
Fredericksburg, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Home Owners Association.
These people own their homes too, but pay fees to keep the community looking nice, to fund a community pool, community tennis courts etc. Often times the HOA has a deal with a trash company at cheaper rates, etc. HOA's also tell people what they can and can't do to the exterior of the house... like paint it purple and pink.
There is a HOA board comprised of the Home Owners in the community as well.
Generally you find these in planned development (a ton of them around here). A Housing company will buy a multi lot piece of ground... put a bunch of houses on it, then sell the houses. (Usually they are sold before being built and the new Homeowner picks options for the house, etc). Around here, unless yuou buy your own house and hire your own contractor, a new house is going to come with an HOA.
In this case, the builder is signing deals with Cox to provide service (probably with a small discount) to all the houses to be paid for with the HOA fees. If you don't want Cox, you still have to pay the HOA fees which cover the Cox payment. So in effect, you are paying for Cox and DTV for example. |
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.Is this for gated communities or condos.?Suppose i have a year contract with sat.tv Which is cheaper than cable in most places.I fail to see how one is forced to get a service with a company they may also hate.Thus maybe the reason for the move..i know long stretch of the imagination there.Only to be force to pay for those despised services again?
