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description: Owner wants to spend extra money on painting project.  Owners may have to be assessed for it.
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# Owner wants to over-spend on condo association painting project

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## What do you think? Question:

I am on the board of my condo association and can't seem to see eye to eye with one of the other members about painting the trim of our exterior windows and doors.  We have cedar siting and currently it is neutral in color in its entirety. The other member wants to paint the trim white thinking it will add value to the property and I just can't rationalize the excess cost of 5K adding any value especially when we are assessing unit owners 250 each to generally paint but then turning around to say the association can now suddenly afford to pay the extra 5k. So 2 issues. One does anyone agree painting the trim of cedar siting white will add value in excess of 5k to a property of 36 units? Does anyone see an ethical question in charging for the painting and then suggesting we can come up with 5k for trim? As a unit owner I would wonder why I am being assessed a fee to total 9k if we had an "extra" 5 and would want a refund for half. No?

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