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Posted By CathyA3 on 06/21/2021 4:24 AM
Usually the fair market value of the clubhouse and any other amenities and common areas will be included in the price of the homes being sold. The cost of maintaining these also *should* be included in the assessments owners are charged - but these assessments are often kept artificially low while the developer controls the association in order to attract buyers.
The way my employer (a developer/builder) does things: land is acquired and then platted, the necessary legal work is done, roads and infrastructure lines (water, gas, electric) are put in, and the clubhouse is built along with the first phase of homes. Occasionally they'll wait until phase 2 or 3 before putting up the amenities - can depend on cash flow and the eventual size of the planned community.
As for seeing the actual costs associated with all of this, they'll be in the financial records of the developer's business (may be a corporation, may be an individual LLC for each new community). A lot of this is propriety or confidential and not available to the public. The only way I can think of that a member of an HOA would get to see such things would be if there were litigation of some sort and the info disclosed during the course of the case.
In case this wasn't clear...
The developer doesn't "contribute" a clubhouse or any other amenities. The cost of the land and construction costs for these things (as well as for the homes) are business expenses. The savvy builder/developer will know, to the dollar, how much he is spending so that he can set home prices at a level that allows him to make a profit.
How these expenses are reported in his tax filings or other financial records is a different question, and will be between the developer and the IRS (and shareholders if it's a publicly-traded company). As others have said, not public info.