Homeowners Dues

[Mekong Bob]

Is it common for homeowners living in housing developments in and around Chiang Mai to be charged a monthly homeowner fee or dues according to the area of their property? A homeowner with 400 tarang wa of land would pay more homeowners dues than his neighbor with 200 tarang wa. Is this common?

The homeowners association employs a full-time maintenance man who maintains the common areas (grass, shrubs, trees, streetlights, water pump and tower, etc.), but does not provide any services to individual homeowners.

[Greenside]

Yes.

[mallmagician]

Yes. I have 2 plots with only 1 house. I pay double.

Thanks

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[Mekong Bob]

Yes. I have 2 plots with only 1 house. I pay double.

Thanks

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Is the fee you pay based on number of plots or size of plots?

Thanks.

[Dante99]

Some places you pay by the plot, all plots the same price. Others have different prices for different land sizes. Both are common.

[Farang0tang]

Would be interesting to know how much people in different locations are paying per plot/wa.

[ProdigalSon]

I've been looking around the new developments and have found the fees vary from 8 to 20 baht per square wah.

[Mekong Bob]

Would be interesting to know how much people in different locations are paying per plot/wa.

Yes, indeed. Another variable, however, is the services provided to individual (non-common) properties. If the Homeowners Association spends more time and money on the larger plots, and less on the smaller plots, then the varying fee amounts makes good sense. Otherwise, with no individual services provided, then the association is setting the fees according to the "ability to pay," i.e., larger plot owners have more money and therefore should pay more for the same service.

In Virginia (USA), I lived in a housing development and all residents paid the same monthly fee amount, regardless of plot size, residence size, use of community swimming pool, clubhouse, tennis courts, etc.

[AnotherOneAmerican]

Usually includes refuse collection, street lighting and regular mozzie gassing.

Mine in CM is currently 120bht/month.

Edited July 13, 2013 by AnotherOneAmerican

[Mekong Bob]

Usually includes refuse collection, street lighting and regular mozzie gassing.

Mine in CM is currently 120bht/month.

Sounds good (inexpensive!). I pay three times that amount, but wouldn't mind paying 600-700 baht each month . . . . so long as everyone in the community paid the same! (The new policy, based on plot size, will take effect next month.)

Does everyone in your community pay 120bht/month?

[AnotherOneAmerican]

Usually includes refuse collection, street lighting and regular mozzie gassing.

Mine in CM is currently 120bht/month.

Sounds good (inexpensive!). I pay three times that amount, but wouldn't mind paying 600-700 baht each month . . . . so long as everyone in the community paid the same! (The new policy, based on plot size, will take effect next month.)

Does everyone in your community pay 120bht/month?

yep

Edited July 13, 2013 by AnotherOneAmerican

[WitawatWatawit]

In my mooban, we are setting up a homeowners' association to take over management of the estate from the developer. We're looking for all the advice we can get. So far things are going ok, but there will always be snags that we don't foresee. So if anyone has been thru this already, can you point us in the direction of any info, websites, HA's websites, that we can check? That would be cool. Thanks.