Over the last few years, our Association has seen increased mailing costs as postage and stamps, paper, envelopes and other printing costs have gotten more and more expensive. Currently, the Association budgets $7,000 annually to those printing and mailing costs, and that’s only for Association-wide correspondence (our Management contract includes and covers all mailing costs for individual architectural and compliance communications). Breaking expenses down further, we spend over $30 per home on mailings!

Over the past few years, we’ve done a big push to get homeowners to sign up for email alerts. While it’s been partially successful as we do have 83 homeowners who’ve opted in, 79 of those 83 homeowners opted to receive items via BOTH email and snail mail.

We currently have a total of 4 homeowners who have opted in to “Email Only” correspondence, which means we mail out 208 copies! And unfortunately, a lot of the mailings (Annual Budget Package, Policy Statement, Year End Financials, Contact Information Requests, Statements, etc.) are California State Law requirements, which means even if you don’t read them, we have to send them.

So if you’d like to save the Association $30+ a year, and perhaps keep dues from increasing at a typical rate, please email Management (slint@hoaservices.net or cheryl@hoaservices.net) and opt in to Email Only Communications!

p.s. you can also change your mail settings yourself at:  https://online.hoaservices.net