San Ramon Golf course was purchased in 2015 by a developer. He has been trying to develop it since then, so far without success. A homeowners group similar to ours called Stay the Course San Ramon was formed has been an effective voice there. If you have a chance check out the links below to see what they are doing. Read the first link first for background. Check out the rest of their website as well. The second link “Annual Report 2017” gives the latest status. Share your thoughts with us.
Interesting, but I think the current focus should be to evaluate the owners’ request to pay a monthly fee to keep the course open. If the course stays open the development question is moot. If the course is losing money the owners will close it regardless of what might happen or not with potential development. They will want to stop the current losses and without a subsidy it will close.
Before a subsidy is considered, let’s first consider some very important traits that the owner must have: Integrity, trustworthiness, honesty, good track record, credibility…………………..do I need continue?
Unfortunately the owner has created an atmosphere of mistrust with a credibility rating equal to Bernie Madoff .
Let’s also think about not only the increase in HOA feed due to the golf subsidy, but also regular HOA increases which are bound to come. Our monthly fees could become a great deal higher than many communities which would in turn make our homes less desirable. After all, the majority of the people in here do not play golf or even even see the course.
Hi Leslie – Even if you don’t see the golf course from your house, all our home values will be depressed by a closure. Next time you drive into the community look at all the property that does belong to golf course and imagine it full of weeds and surrounded by chain link fencing, Now picture a prospective buying coming in and seeing the same blight. It may not affect your home values as much as someone fronting the golf course, but it will affect your home value regardless of your location in the community. There are lots of articles on this topic if you do a google search under “home values golf course closure”.
It’s 180K to the owner per year, no questions asked. We would be stupid to agree to that.
Rumor has it that Developer Joe Syufy and Charlie have recently been telling homeowners that they will be asking for a fee of more like $50 per month per homeowner. Roughly, we have about 580 homeowners in Morgan Creek so the annual sum would be more like $600 per homeowner and $348,000 total per year. The proposed fees would generate $3.5M over 10 years @ $6,000 per homeowner. But let’s wait and see what proposal is presented to all of us……………..it just keeps getting better!!! It would be to all of our benefit to show up at the HOA homeowner meeting on Tuesday, 5/15, at 6:30 pm in the Pavilion to express your opinions regarding the future of our golf course.
The problem is that once he gets the subsidy. He will ask for 2nd and 3rd time and still be losing money.