Applewood Community FAQ
The Applewood Community gets many questions from our visitors. Here we have listed the most common questions that we recieve. If you don’t see your question listed here please don’t hesitate to Contact Us with your questions or concerns.
- How does it work?
- What is a land lease?
- Do I pay taxes in the land or my home?
- What about garbage and trash?
- Who maintains the roads in the community?
- Where do my children get the school bus?
- Does Applewood have a recreational area?
- How do I get the mail delivered to my home?
- What about security?
- Who maintains the property I lease?
- What about utilities? (water, sewer, gas/electric, phone, cable television?)
- Do you have demographics on the population of Applewood?
- Are pets allowed in The Applewood Community?
- Do you keep listings of the homes available in your community?
- Can we see a map of Applewood Community?
A. Often times, customers will ask…how does it work? How do I go about living in Applewood? Here at Applewood, our customers purchase their home (which are manufactured double and single wide homes) and rent the lot to keep the home here in Applewood. You can purchase the home from us, or bring your home here. You can purchase one of our models or you can order a home directly from a floor plan, which you can custom design to fit your needs. If you would like to see any of the floor plans that are available, you can visit the site of our manufacturer, Pine Grove Homes. In some cases, a customer will purchase a pre-owned home, depending on what we have in our inventory. Many times, we help our customers get set up with financing, if they are not purchasing the home outright. If you are interested in finding out more about financing, please let us know. In all cases, our customers purchase the home and rent the lots for $375 (single wide) or $385 (double wide).
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A. At Applewood, you lease the land. You pay a monthly payment of $375 for single wide homes, and $385 for double wide homes, to use the land. The lease is renewable annually.
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A. You, the homeowner do not pay school taxes, county taxes, and town taxes. You may apply for tax exempt status wia the star program. This reduces your annual rent by 15%
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A. Applewood provides, at no charge to the homeowners, once a week garbage pickup. The town of New Hartford provides an annual collection of old tires, appliances, etc., plus a weekly collection of brushes, leaves, etc.
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A. All the roadways in the community are town owned roads. The town of New Hartford plows, sands and salts the roads in the winter and water sweeps them in the summer.
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A. Because Applewood has town roads, the Clinton svhool bus picks your children up at select home sites. Applewood is in the Clinton School District.
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A. Yes. Applewood provides a recreational area including a basketball court, baseball field and a volleyball court.
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A. Mail is delivered to each home. A mailbox is provided in front of your home. Although you kive in the Town of New Hartford, you must contact the Clinton post office. Your mailing address is Clinton, NY 13323.
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A. Applewood is patrolled by the town of New Hartford Police Department. New York State Police and Oneida County Sheriff plus Applewood has its own lighting district.
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A. You, the home owner, maintain all the amenities, lawns, shrubs, snow. Applewood does offer maintanance contracts for a set fee per year. We do all the work.
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A. You, the home owner, pay the utilities. The average for a single section home is:
Gas/electric ......approximately $75 per month
Water/sewer .......approximately $12 per month
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A. Yes. The demographics were done in 2000 and are as follows:
48% Blue Collar
32% Professional
20% Retirees 26% Single mom w/children
16% Married couples w/children
44% Married couples
14% Single adults
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A. Our pet policy is, on certain conditions pets are allowed but they MUST be indoor pets. And we will have a pet rider attached to your lease.
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A. The Applewood Community offers both new and pre-owned homes for sale at any given time, however, this stock is constantly changing and the pricing varies along with this. Because of the constant changes made to our homes every year(ie. some items found in our homes were once options, and are now standard) it is important for you to determine what type of home will suit your lifestyle best, Singlewide Vs Doublewide, 2 Vs. 3 bedrooms. Would you like an eat in kitchen or a dining room? If you would like to contact us we can help you answer some of those questions.
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A. Of course! Please visit this link to view a map of The Applewood Community. Please be aware that this image is very large in size and may take a moment to load in your browser.
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