Regulation for community in DR ?

Each communities bylaws are slightly different. Without reading yours, I will give you the best answer I can.

All owners are required to pay for maintainance of the common areas. The amount may be assigned based on square meters of your unit, or number of bedrooms (check your bylaws).

Once a year, 60 days after the end of the fiscal year, an owners meeting is required. At this time the budget is decided for the following year, any major improvements discussed, and an administrator is elected or appointed (depending on bylaws).

There must be quorum for the meeting to be valid. 51% of the owners must be present or represented. One person may represent no more than 3 people. The administrator may not represent anyone.

The administrator must provide an accounting of all funds upon an owners request. They are to maintain complete records of all owners payments, as well as all expenditures.

If the administrator is not maintaining the community, I would start by asking to see the financial records. Is it because they are not doing their job? Or is it because the owners are behind in payments and they don't have the money for repairs?

You should also ask for minutes from the last meeting, as well as the budget that was approved.

Hope this helps.

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As DRdreaming says above, it is legal to have varied fees and this may depend on the size or number of bedrooms, for example. $550 (I assume you are talking US) sounds high but we don't know what your property is like. I suggest you contact the association and ask how fees are calculated.

i second what was said above. maintenance fees may depend on the type of properties and different fees can be applied to the owners of undeveloped land, owners of houses, owners of apartments. fees can also differ depending on the size of the construction with owners of larger buildings paying more than those with smaller ones. owners of multiple properties can also negotiate lower price for each individual property.

At our development in Bavaro, the fees are equal and go up and down equally, depending on the current need each year. Some of the units have no exclusive use of common area and others do, mine included, based on the square meter area noted on the title. Every development is different to a degree, but all have to follow the Dominican Condominium Law to the letter.

Guzman law office has the translated condo bylaws of 1958 which is the boiler plate set all condos must use in the DR.
http://www.drlawyer.com/publication/real-estate-and-condominium-law/condominium-law-5038-of-1958/

No. Those are the condominium laws. You really need to refer to your bylaws as to how the HOA fee is calculated. It is usually found in the very beginning of the bylaws.

A community of houses may be governed by condo rules. If not, you will have to refer to the contractual arrangement between the owners, which, in practice, is usually a very cumbersome and ineffective legal strcuture in the DR..