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How Much Reserves Should a Condo Have?

Association-governed communities come in all types, shapes, and sizes. They may be known by different acronyms — Condos, Co-Ops, HOAs, POAs, or PUDs — and residents choose to live there for a variety of different reasons. One of those reasons is having affordable access to amenities related to leisure activities. This can include a pool, a fitness facility, tennis courts, playgrounds, parks, golf course, and more. And keeping these desirable community features up to date and well-maintained over the years requires a predictable amount of capital. This capital is called the Reserve Fund.

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What is a Reserve Study?

A Reserve Study helps you to anticipate and prepare for repair and replacement expenses at your property. All buildings begin to physically deteriorate the moment they are completed, making the need for repairs not a question of if but when? This is where a Reserve Study comes in, turning these projects into predictable expenses, rather than a financial surprise.

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How Much Should an HOA Have in Reserve?

Choosing to live in an association-governed community, whether it’s a highrise condominium or a gated community of single family homes, certainly has many perks. One major convenience is the maintenance of the property. As part of such a community, homeowners enjoy care-free living while the homeowners association or HOA is tasked with ensuring that all of the common areas of the property are well-maintained.

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Why Reserve for 30 yrs instead of 20 yrs (or less)?

It is true that accuracy of Reserve projections increases as the projected expense approaches. An expense expected in the next five years (Remaining Useful Life of 0-4 yrs) is much more certain in timing and cost than an expense projected 25 or so years away.

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Reserve Study Tasks – Not to try at Home!

Yesterday three things happened that were the result of people taking Reserve Study projects into their own hands. Weird that they all happened in one day. Unfortunate, because they each point out that some tasks are best left to a professional.

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If RUL=0, do we Have to do the Project?

An attendee at one of our webinars earlier this week (click here) asked if it was ok to defer a project with a Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of 0 until the following year, and how that should be communicated in the Reserve Study. Deferring a project can be done, but it is a decision made by the Board, and something the Board communicates in a document separate from the Reserve Study. The Reserve Study is where the association communicates to the members the status of the physical components, the preparedness of the Reserve Fund to deal with those projects, and the ongoing contributions to the Reserve Fund necessary to offset that ongoing deterioration.

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