31 Mar 2010 6:03 PM:

Hey Jonathan

Not sure if your first point is correct and feel you may have been fed a bit of duff info.

If there are 157 properties in a community then 157 property owners will recieve a bill and be expected (by law) to pay their fees    (I appreciate that exact individual costs depend on property size but will all be about the same).

So if your community bill is 157,000 (for easy figures) then give or take a euro or two, everyone will recieve a bill for 1000.

However, unfortunatley there will be a percentage of investors who refuse to pay and if lets say 57 properties are empty as they haven't been completed by the purchaser (in dispute) then the bills will revert to the developer who is the owner at that time.

The community is then hoping that the developer is willing to pay the 57,000 community fee which isn't a good position to be in.

The community fees will still be 157,000 irrelevant of disputes, non payment etc etc etc and unfortunatley the rest of the 'paying' community will end up footing the bill as usual.

Sure your community can pusue and sue every non payer but until that happens (which will be 3-4 years normally) the rest will have to foot the bill.

Community admin is a minefield with allsorts of problems and issues and unfortunatley very few communities run smoothly so everybody hopes that their community has a very high percentage of willing payers. However, the one thing that doesn't change is that it is a community charge made by the community elected administrator and paid for by the community for the benefit of the community and if the annual bill is 157,000 then that is what needs paying, irrelevant of who pays it.

I hope the Corvera communities work well together but would imagine the presidents will have quite a job on.

I'm no expert but my experience tells me I wont be far off.

Community thread: Community Fees issued

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13 Jan 2010 5:47 PM:

Dishaw

A memory foam mattress is not necessarily a better quality mattress but is just a different type. There are plenty of them on the market at different prices but are all much of a muchness (although the salesman won't say that)

It will be warm as the foam interacts and warms off your body heat - that is what a memory foam mattress does and as the whole mattress depth is memory foam there is a lot of heat retention going on.

Try a matress protector or new mattresses if your struggling.

I have them on my beds and love them to bits

Community thread: Memory foam mattress/Electrician

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09 Dec 2009 2:08 PM:

Dont be rushed or bullied into anything people, particularly accepting responsibility of anything from the developer.

If you don't understand, or agree, or are unsure of the consequences in any way then just vote no until full clarification has been given, this is exactly what I will be doing.

My trust in developer, Roda and administrator has long since disappeared.

Communities have already accepted poor finishes from the developer without realising it so please don't jump into voting for something that you don't understand and could cost more community money. The whole community situation is an expensive mess already without adding to it.

Some more help and guidance from the administration would be helpful (and a first!) rather than just sending out incorrect figures and details that no-one understands but that is too much to expect.

Always remember that the administrator is appointed by the developer so no need to question loyalties!!

Community thread: Urban Conservation Entity

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