Our HOA Fees Just Went Up 11.7% / myLot

United States

December 1, 2025 4:50pm CST

That's an ENORMOUS jump! I was the President of the HOA for 4 years and two years we had zero increase and two years we had 2% and 4% increases. 11.7% is a LOT of money. Evidently the liability insurance coverage for the property went up 9% and water for irrigation went up some amount and they're replacing roofs. I mean . . . . I'm grateful there wasn't an "assessment" where we'd have to pay several thousand dollars, but $35 more per month is significant. Sigh. Everything's getting more and more expensive.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14092)

• Ireland

1 Dec

@looeyville Unfortunately the old saying “what goes up must come down” doesn’t generally apply to bills. However our electricity bills are about to fall a bit.

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Jim Bauer

@porwest (111530)

• United States

16h

Living in your kind of community does have some advantages, but I have always been adamant to never live in an HOA run community. It's like being a renter with a deed, for one. That being said, I may wind up in a community like that eventually when I get too old to do things like yardwork.

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LooeyVille

@LooeyVille (59)

• United States

16h

It really isn't an unreasonable amount. It's $335 month now starting in 2026 and that covers all the mowing and landscaping for the entire year, pest control, street lights, water (homeowners don't pay for personal water usage), insurance on the buildings, etc. It could be worse I guess. When we moved in 12 years ago it was $235/month.

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Jim Bauer

@porwest (111530)

• United States

16h

@LooeyVille It does have value when you add up what the money gets used for. Still, it's an expense you can't opt out of. Say I said, "I want to cut my own grass." I'd still have to pay the fee.

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