Houses come with the extra work of mowing a lawn, snow removal, maintaining other landscaping, re-roofing, re-siding, new windows, cleaning windows, etc way too often. And the cost of all the tools that go along with this.
Sure you can pay to have someone come and do all of that, but most do it themselves meaning that if you want to pay someone to come and do it it is going to require a special trip to your neighborhood and thus cost you more.
With a condo and townhome you pay into a fund to have all of this done and because you and however many else have the same board all are paying the costs are cheaper and easier.
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