re: Beach Condo Ownership

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Just buy a house

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If you think HOA dues for condos are expensive, try owning a beach house within 2 blocks of the beach. The salt is absolutely hell on exteriors.

Condo HOA dues are for the most part actually very reasonable when you consider you get multiple utilities generally and sometimes you get everything but Electricity. On a beach property getting cable tv, internet, water, and trash is worth $250 or more a month. That could be upwards of 50% of your HOA dues for a smaller unit.

Condo Assessments are for the most part pretty rare, and certainly less often than the price of maintaining a property on your own. If assessments are not rare then you