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Part of a proper plan is a schedule of anticipated levies for each year of the plan. The idea is to have contributions only rising gradually, roughly in line with expected inflation, while expenses will be lumpy. Most OCs will have a small number of large expenses expected to occur infrequently. The idea is to smooth out the funding of those infrequent large expenses across past, present and future owners so that all contribute fairly and similarly.
Many OCs will be able to do their own plan. It is not hard to estimate future maintenance based on past maintenance costs for some items. For other things, you might get a quote or two. Our OC got professional advice for our 2010 plan but then we did things ourself when we reviewed and updated and documented it all rather better in 2015. For many items we could combine the professional cost estimates with our own experience to come up with numbers we could be quite confident about.