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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
How much of it falls to individual home owners v. the city. Is the state of the community really about the public areas v. the state of individual homes and their yards/fences/etc?
(not a loaded question, sincerely interested in your take on that as I see in most areas, it really comes down to the individual home owners).
I'm also a hypocrite because I hate maintenance work. But now I live in a townhome complex where I don't have to worry about it.
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A lot of people really don't seem to care about maintaining their property. One community I lived in had a landscape levy which was super cheap ($65 annually) and there were homeowners that didn't even want to pay that which to me is crazy shortsighted. New communities always start off nice as everything is new, clean, and vibrant but as original house owners sell and houses go through several different owners or properties turn into rentals that the community starts to slide as the new houses start to age and need work, yards that were once cared for by one owner, not taken care of with new owners, etc. This is why people move around in the city and your first house isn't usually your last.