Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania

Since annual maintenance assessments are based on the costs of running the entire development except the insides of the individually owned units, those assessments represent the budget, based on past years' expenses and anticipated costs.

Although it may be possible that the budgets would go down, it is unlikely that those costs would decrease. Therefore, it would not be fiscally prudent to vote to decrease the assessments.

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