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Anonymous wrote:To answer an earlier question, yes the HOA included pool + clubhouse with gym and it includes lawn care (both front and backyard). Our family is looking for low maintenance and really liked the idea of the clubhouse as a gathering g space to meet neighbors. We are under contract for a SFH with Toll Brothers.

Do you have children? Any young children??

We do! Looking forward to having our kids make new friends in the neighborhood (and us too )

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer an earlier question, yes the HOA included pool + clubhouse with gym and it includes lawn care (both front and backyard). Our family is looking for low maintenance and really liked the idea of the clubhouse as a gathering g space to meet neighbors. We are under contract for a SFH with Toll Brothers.

Were you able to get into Amalyn before the price increase due to extreme demand????

Yep! We went under contract last fall.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people just can’t grasp HOA fees.

Avenil in Potomac covers lawn service (including your lawn) snow removal (including your house) garbage pick up, pool and tennis club, walking trails and common grounds.

At time HOA fee was $400 a month when I looked on 2017

My non HOAs house I pay $500 garbage pick up and lawn is $2,300 and shovel own snow. And I still don’t get pool or tennis or a sidewalk to walk on.

Trash pickup in the southern part of Moco is done by the county as part of property tax. So the HOA fee is not going toward trash pickup. And I have seen nothing to suggest that the HOA fee will cover lawn care and snow removal on your private property in this development.

This is not true for every community. My Association has to pay for trash pickup. If you have trash pickup 2x per week or it is on a different day than recycling you most likely have private trash pickup.

Just look at the budget in the resale documents and you will see what your HOA is going towards. Even if the roads are covered for snow removal, you would still need someone to do sidewalks and salting in the common areas.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some people just can’t grasp HOA fees.

Avenil in Potomac covers lawn service (including your lawn) snow removal (including your house) garbage pick up, pool and tennis club, walking trails and common grounds.

At time HOA fee was $400 a month when I looked on 2017

My non HOAs house I pay $500 garbage pick up and lawn is $2,300 and shovel own snow. And I still don’t get pool or tennis or a sidewalk to walk on.

$500 for trash pick-up??? Are you nuts? Titus trash is $13 a month. And if you are paying $2,300 for lawn care, they better be doing an amazing job or you have like 5 acres of grass. That's very very expensive.

That’s one of the things I love about Amalyn. It’s the low HOAs in comparison to its competitors peers like Avenel.

You get more for your HOA fee at avenel

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some people just can’t grasp HOA fees.

Avenil in Potomac covers lawn service (including your lawn) snow removal (including your house) garbage pick up, pool and tennis club, walking trails and common grounds.

At time HOA fee was $400 a month when I looked on 2017

My non HOAs house I pay $500 garbage pick up and lawn is $2,300 and shovel own snow. And I still don’t get pool or tennis or a sidewalk to walk on.

$500 for trash pick-up??? Are you nuts? Titus trash is $13 a month. And if you are paying $2,300 for lawn care, they better be doing an amazing job or you have like 5 acres of grass. That's very very expensive.

That’s one of the things I love about Amalyn. It’s the low HOAs in comparison to its competitors peers like Avenel.

The HOA in Avenel is about $400/month for SFHs. Here's a listing with a $406 HOA: https://www.redfin.com/MD/Potomac/10025-Chartwell-Manor-Ct-20854/home/10919180 Amalyn doesn't seem very low at all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some people just can’t grasp HOA fees.

Avenil in Potomac covers lawn service (including your lawn) snow removal (including your house) garbage pick up, pool and tennis club, walking trails and common grounds.

At time HOA fee was $400 a month when I looked on 2017

My non HOAs house I pay $500 garbage pick up and lawn is $2,300 and shovel own snow. And I still don’t get pool or tennis or a sidewalk to walk on.

$500 for trash pick-up??? Are you nuts? Titus trash is $13 a month. And if you are paying $2,300 for lawn care, they better be doing an amazing job or you have like 5 acres of grass. That's very very expensive.

That’s one of the things I love about Amalyn. It’s the low HOAs in comparison to its competitors peers like Avenel.

$400/month in HOA fees for a SFH is not low. But you should probably consider how old Avenel is. The fees are always low to start, then as everything ages, the fees go up and up.

Avenil included law maint. Of your own property. Some homes have two acres. My daughter went to a part there and was a huge house on two acres with a massive long two car wide circular driveway. HOA mowed that lawn and did snow removal. It is not apples to apples. Plus Avenil has a pool
And tennis club, garbage pick up.

My house i bought owners bought “retirement home” in Avenil. They did not want a condo but did not want to do any exterior maint. I did not buy as I did not want HOA fee. But if I was rich and 70 and rich I might like it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some people just can’t grasp HOA fees.

Avenil in Potomac covers lawn service (including your lawn) snow removal (including your house) garbage pick up, pool and tennis club, walking trails and common grounds.

At time HOA fee was $400 a month when I looked on 2017

My non HOAs house I pay $500 garbage pick up and lawn is $2,300 and shovel own snow. And I still don’t get pool or tennis or a sidewalk to walk on.

$500 for trash pick-up??? Are you nuts? Titus trash is $13 a month. And if you are paying $2,300 for lawn care, they better be doing an amazing job or you have like 5 acres of grass. That's very very expensive.

That’s one of the things I love about Amalyn. It’s the low HOAs in comparison to its competitors peers like Avenel.

$400/month in HOA fees for a SFH is not low. But you should probably consider how old Avenel is. The fees are always low to start, then as everything ages, the fees go up and up.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some people just can’t grasp HOA fees.

Avenil in Potomac covers lawn service (including your lawn) snow removal (including your house) garbage pick up, pool and tennis club, walking trails and common grounds.

At time HOA fee was $400 a month when I looked on 2017

My non HOAs house I pay $500 garbage pick up and lawn is $2,300 and shovel own snow. And I still don’t get pool or tennis or a sidewalk to walk on.

$500 for trash pick-up??? Are you nuts? Titus trash is $13 a month. And if you are paying $2,300 for lawn care, they better be doing an amazing job or you have like 5 acres of grass. That's very very expensive.

That’s one of the things I love about Amalyn. It’s the low HOAs in comparison to its competitors peers like Avenel.

Anonymous wrote:Some people just can’t grasp HOA fees.

Avenil in Potomac covers lawn service (including your lawn) snow removal (including your house) garbage pick up, pool and tennis club, walking trails and common grounds.

At time HOA fee was $400 a month when I looked on 2017

My non HOAs house I pay $500 garbage pick up and lawn is $2,300 and shovel own snow. And I still don’t get pool or tennis or a sidewalk to walk on.

$500 for trash pick-up??? Are you nuts? Titus trash is $13 a month. And if you are paying $2,300 for lawn care, they better be doing an amazing job or you have like 5 acres of grass. That's very very expensive.

Anonymous wrote:To answer an earlier question, yes the HOA included pool + clubhouse with gym and it includes lawn care (both front and backyard). Our family is looking for low maintenance and really liked the idea of the clubhouse as a gathering g space to meet neighbors. We are under contract for a SFH with Toll Brothers.

Do you have children? Any young children??

Anonymous wrote:To answer an earlier question, yes the HOA included pool + clubhouse with gym and it includes lawn care (both front and backyard). Our family is looking for low maintenance and really liked the idea of the clubhouse as a gathering g space to meet neighbors. We are under contract for a SFH with Toll Brothers.

Were you able to get into Amalyn before the price increase due to extreme demand????

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:does anyone know if they are actually selling at list price?

SDAT is your friend. Search sales by address or subdivision.

the problem is there are very few homes that have actually closed- I did notice on SDAT though that the land on the map for a school is actually owned by Montgomery board of education -- so I'd be very interested if they are actually going to build a new school and what the timeline would look like for that.

With the school be specifically for Amalyn!?
Otherwise, it could bring a lot of traffic in

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:does anyone know if they are actually selling at list price?

SDAT is your friend. Search sales by address or subdivision.

the problem is there are very few homes that have actually closed- I did notice on SDAT though that the land on the map for a school is actually owned by Montgomery board of education -- so I'd be very interested if they are actually going to build a new school and what the timeline would look like for that.

Anonymous wrote:If you are under contract when do you start paying the mortgage and when do you expect to move in? I have no idea how this works.

You pay a deposit when you go under contract. At that point, you then make all your design decisions. You pick your countertops, floors, tile, etc. you also select architectural upgrades like a screened porch, etc. you don’t start paying the mortgage until the house is finished. At that point, we get to inspect it and then once it is ready, we close on it and at that point we start paying the mortgage.

That is the big advantage of building with a large builder vs. a one-off tear down new build. We considered both. Typically with a new custom build, the buyer actually purchases the land and you begin paying the mortgage on the land immediately and then start paying for the construction loan during the construction period. The advantage with the custom horn though is you can truly personalize it, you pick the floor plan, exterior materials, literately everything. There are certain selections with Toll where we didn’t love any of the options (example - the countertops).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Problem is they are built by Toll Brothers, and therefore are not well made. Google is your friend here - don't waste your money.

II think pretty much every big homebuilder gets terrible reviews. I think so much of new builds just depends on the quality of the subcontractors they end up using, who's supervising the work, how closely the county is paying attention, etc., and unfortunately these things are out of your control, so it's a bit of luck of the draw.

Toll is well-known for being especially cheap