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[quote=Anonymous]20:46 again.

Good question. What the PP alluded to above at 8:30 is sort of correct. Like I said, I've been doing this a long time and I've seen crap change over the years. I grew up in a town where yes, the town paved and snowplowed the damn roads! Then I moved to the south, then here to subdivision hell. Then I worked for several huge builders who built giant subdivisions. This is a vicious cycle but here's the skinny:

Developer buys tract of land and wants to put 100 houses. Idiots at county who fell out of 7th grade and got these jobs called "Reviewers" decide, arbitrarily, "hey, we don't feel like taking on more roads for you rich developers, so you can't have any houses approved for development unless you structure your documents such that the roads are private. Oh, and by the way, while you're at it, the school down the street that has nothing to do with you? They need a new playground. that's on you too."

F*cking counties. They're the real thieves. My husband is still in the business and you would not believe the stories he comes home with, it's just unreal. You want to tear your hair out. But everyone thinks the developers are the enemy. If you sat in these meetings you would see just how evil some of these county people are.

And to your comment about paying the same rate of city tax and getting less services: YES! This is exactly right. That's how they do it, and my parents (Real Estate people also) would tell you this is why county and state governments in many places are corrupt - because wtf are they doing with that money??? Why do these people make a full salary and they barely work, and I mean barely. Some of these Mont Co/PG county reviewers are so beyond incompetent it is totally confusing how they even have jobs. One set a meeting to move a power pole for my husband's community, SEVEN TIMES. Her inability to coordinate the people out there to get the line moved cost him $90,000. With no recourse. There goes the profit.

And the HOA dues are managed by a management company. The developer can't just steal money out of there to recover it, and even if so, there isn't $90K hanging out in a single family subdivision HOA account.[/quote]

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