[mayanone]

I am looking for your thoughts on Siena in Summerlin. If you can, make comparisons with the sun cities in Anthem and Summerlin. Comparisons in terms of liveability and investments wise. Olecapt, I am especially looking for you thoughts.

[Willy702]

That area does not really feel like its part of Summerlin. I looked at some places right next to Siena and it seems very isolated at this time with plenty of open desert around it for now. The realtor said the best part of Siena is all the houses are single story so they don't block the views of their two story neighbors. Didn't seem like he thought too highly of it.

[jjameson922]

I've thoroughly looked at all of them. Siena is pricier, offers less and I don't care for any of the floorplans. I personally feel SC Summerlin offers the most and is the right one for me. Anthem has LID's and SID's to pay in addition and I assume Siena does too. If it doesn't and the HOA dues are acceptable to you and the floorplans, it would be okay.

[commonsence]

Problem with Siena Summerlin is HOA favors spending heavily on older, larger section while generally abandoning the newer southern section. The southern section of Siena has seen folks move out in a steady stream due to undisclosed construction defects, despite numerous laws requiring full disclosure. A major defect has been conceiled for years, and a close review of property sales will find the HOA people had this insider information and sold off second investment homes or sold al together and never disclosed these major defects, a violation of federal law. The HOA then becomes under funded with less homeowners and the guard service and board members who previously had important productive lives now for some reason in retirement, feel impotent and start arbitrarily assessing fines over quality of life styles despite the issues being completely within the HOA rules. It's a predicable circle, people just want to live and enjoy their homes and community and when unlawfully denied that simple peace and tranquility with the assessment arbitrary fines and interpretation of rules that frankly are just abstract and crazy, folks will just move. At Siena the HOA singlehandedly been responsible for a greater drop in home value than the faltering of the economy. Not a unique story about HOA's who go power-crazy, it just continues to lack due process and be sad regardless.

[webenomads]

Originally Posted by commonsence

The southern section of Siena has seen folks move out in a steady stream due to undisclosed construction defects, despite numerous laws requiring full disclosure. A major defect has been conceiled for years, and a close review of property sales will find the HOA people had this insider information and sold off second investment homes or sold al together and never disclosed these major defects, a violation of federal law.

Whoa. Would you care to be more specific regarding this major construction defect? I know somebody who has a house there.