A stacked condo building moves nearly everything outside your walls onto the association’s ledger — roofs, corridors, grounds, and the elevators that make this format age-proof. The dues must fund all of it, which is why the right diligence here is less about the fee’s size than its adequacy: an underfunded elevator reserve is a special assessment wearing a friendly number. The assembly, with the reserve question front and center.
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Talk to a Specialist →| Item | Structure | The Footnote That Matters |
|---|---|---|
| Condo dues | Request the published package from Beazer + the association budget | Must carry buildings, roofs, corridors, grounds, amenity center, AND elevator maintenance/reserves across 7 buildings — judge adequacy, not size. Cheap dues on an elevator building is a warning, not a win |
| Reserve study | The document that prices the next 20 years | Elevator modernization runs six figures per building on a multi-decade cycle; a funded reserve means the fee already saves for it, an unfunded one means a future special assessment |
| Your insurance | HO-6 walls-in: ~$700–$1,100/yr | The structure rides the master policy — read its declarations for the wind/hail deductible owners would share after a storm |
| Property tax | New from $350K: ~$3,400–$3,900/yr post-exemption. Resale $520s: ~$5,900–$6,500 | Allen ISD on a boring entity list; at the $350K entry the $200K shield erases 57% of value — among the best ratios in the market — then the school line freezes |
| Financing | Condo project review | Warrantability determination from your lender before emotional commitment — standard for the format |
Assembled for the final-homes buyer at $350K, over-65 filed: dues per the package (call it $350–$450/mo for planning until confirmed), tax ~$300, HO-6 ~$80 — roughly $730–$830 monthly, with a decade carry near $95,000–$110,000 depending on where the dues land. That is value-corridor money for an elevator-served, ENERGY STAR building two minutes off US-75 — provided the reserve study supports the fee. Resale buyers at the $480s–$560s run the same structure ~$250/mo heavier on the tax line.
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In a stacked condo, dues are not a lifestyle charge — they are the building’s pension plan, and you are buying into its funding status. The four-document set (dues package, association budget, reserve study, master policy declarations) plus the lender’s warrantability answer prices this purchase completely; nothing on a listing sheet does. Background: the community guide · the same logic with more zeros: Watermere costs · Collin guide
Dues package, budget, reserve study, and master policy — pulled and read before the final homes sell out.
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