#25487
Sir Humphrey
Strataguru

    @JimmyT said:
    Dudley

    You could put together a spreadsheet yourself …

    Agreed that you can probably DIY. This is not ‘rocket science’. Get together with a couple of your neighbours and the old plan and brainstorm every single thing that you think might be an expense at some point. Put everything in a table, think back to how long (for example) the penultimate paint job lasted before you needed to do it again most recently. What did it cost then? Add a bit more for inflation. I would just get started and put in your best guesstimates and have a ‘notes’ column for where the price estimate came from – a recent trade quote, an extrapolation from what it cost last time, a guess (could be quite OK to do that for the things that are obviously going to be relatively small expenses). I expect that you will have only a couple of items that are the big ticket matters. The minor things could add up to be non-trivial so it is worth counting them all. 

    If you have friends in other similar strata circumstances, ask to look at their plans. Be careful to avoid the retired manager types who want to over-think this sort of task and make it more complex than a submarine contract.