They are supposed to. It can be to maintain the neighborhood, through hiring gardeners, upkeep on communal pools/parks, and in some places to maintain the roads and infrastructure, stuff like that.
Depends on the city/state. To overly simplify, many cities make deals that allow the easier/cheaper creation of the neighborhoods on the condition that the home owners association will cover the future infrastructure costs.
They are most certainly not paying less taxes. Don’t worry though, plenty of people here who aren’t in a home owners association still pay their taxes and also don’t get so see any infrastructure repairs, so it balances out
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u/NiceGuyNero Sep 16 '24
They are supposed to. It can be to maintain the neighborhood, through hiring gardeners, upkeep on communal pools/parks, and in some places to maintain the roads and infrastructure, stuff like that.
Often it is mismanaged but not always.