Terminating 1 HOA when you have 2 HOAs

I would love to know what will happen to the common area of my HOA. There is talk among the neighbors of dissolving it. It is very small under 40 members. We also pay into another HOA, a larger one.We pay more for the smaller, useless one. So if we disband the smaller one which the builder set up, will the larger HOA that we pay into take over the common grounds care? We are tired of paying into 2 HOAs that basically do the same thing. The larger one at least offers some playgrounds, tennis,parks and dog park. The one we currently have just pays to care for a small common ground area.

Has anyone spoke to the larger HOA it see if it's willing to take over the common areas run by the smaller HOA? If not, you need to begin having that conversation. If it's willing, I'm sure there some legal stuff that needs to be done to fold the responsibility into the larger HOA. It'll also mean your assessments will need to be raised to cover the costs of caring for those common areas.

This isn't as simple as the less than 40 homeowners coming together and deciding to dissolve. You may need to come up with a plan if the larger association decides NOT to take over your common areas.

The vote to abolish the HOA was unanimous and the same property management company runs both HOAs. So the same number and contact number is on both bills I get. Who would I contact about this? Platinum Management has people answering the phones who seem to know nothing. The only thing that small HOA pays for is common lands surrounding our homes, like the backwash area and entrance. Very small areas.

I think the vote was premature.

Simply voting to abolish would not, in my opinion, do the job.
You need to amend the actual wording of the deed restriction.

Question - Was this a board vote or a membership vote?
Question - when you say unanimous was this a truly 100% of the membership or only those at the meeting?

Who to contact -

1) The Association attorney to see what steps now need to occur.
(you may need to take several more votes). Actually should have been done prior to the vote.

2) The board of the other Association (not the management company).
Request a meeting to discuss the issue.

JjF Master and Sub associations are very common in the Southwest. No offense JjF if you dissolve the sub association, you will be paying that same total assessments if by some chance the master association assumes the sub. My best advise is to petition the master association to takeover billing for both, and pay one assessment, have the master divvy the assessments between the two.

For what it's worth, I worked in a community with this sort of set up (I work for a new home builder). In that community, the annual assessment paid for maintenance of the single community entrance, the pool and the clubhouse, which were used by all members. Everyone paid that assessment. The sub association paid a monthly assessment for lawn care and snow removal for that section only (those who lived outside of the sub had to cut their own grass and deal with their own snow).

There was no way that the sub association could have dissolved itself. The land in that section was common area owned by the sub. It was much like a typical condo or townhome community, and it would have been difficult if not impossible to equitably divide this common area among the individual owners. And on a practical level, how are you going to have 100+ owners mowing and shoveling what used to be common area? You'd need to hire someone to perform those services. How are you going to get 100+ individual owners to agree on who, and how much to pay, and when they should come. And who negotiates the contracts, and who collects the money from all the neighbors, and makes sure the contractors are paid? And who manages them in case they're not doing a good job? You'd have chaos. The function of the sub association is to replace 100+ squabbling owners with a board that does all this stuff. I can't think of anyone who would prefer the chaos.

Well said.

There was a small common area which had a park and walking track, but the Oro Valley was gifted this by the HOA. So we do not have anything for the higher HOA cost done. No garbage removal, no painting, no lawncare. Just backwash area and a small entrance way with turf on it. That is all they are responsible for. Yes, the vote was 100% of our members. Every homeowner weighed in. None were absent. Also, we do have a lawyer in our membership, who is taking care of the legals. Seems like a no brainer to me. Not a headache. No snow removal or anything else to give up.