Mark Burns is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and former Director of the Health Administration Program at Auburn University.
HOA fees are based on a variety of things. The management association bidding to run an HOA determines the hard costs of things like utilities, landscaping, pool maintenance, administrative costs like attorney fees, billing and postage plus any other required overhead.They then add on their profit margin for servicing the account.he management association bidding to run an HOA determines the hard costs of things like utilities, landscaping, pool maintenance, administrative costs like attorney fees, billing and postage plus any other required overhead. They then add on their profit margin for servicing the account.
1 If the HOA/COA declaration or bylaws so provide, the association may charge an administrative late fee in an amount not to exceed the greater of $25 or 5% of the amount of each installment that is past due (Fla. 2  Stat.