KB Maintenance Fee Payments

• Maintenance fees are payable in one annual payment due by January 1st each year. Statements will be emailed to owners in mid December. You can pay anytime as long as you realize that payments will not be deposited until January 2nd to be within the proper fiscal year.
• Due to increases in insurance rates, water rates, and the need to pay for a new fence along the west side of the Retention Basin, we can no longer afford to offer a $30 discount. Fees for 2026 will be $135 for owners opting for the Green Discount by agreeing to accept email & the website for all HOA communications. Fees are $183 for owners who choose snail mail even though they have an email address, to cover the extra costs & time required to service antiquated, non-environmentally-conscious technology. Please do NOT include the statement with your check. An acknowledgement of payment will be emailed upon receipt of your check.
• Please note that if an owner owes money to the HOA or is under notice of DCCR violation, eligibility for the Green Discount or any bonuses is temporarily suspended.
• Please make checks payable to 'Kuau Bayview' and place them postage-free in the Kuau Bayview HOA drop box at 37 Kaiea Place, or mail them to:
  

      Kuau Bayview
      37 Kaiea Place
      Paia, HI 96779-8108

• Mail in the drop box is collected daily and is just as safe as the US postal service.

Paying via PayPal or Venmo

• For your convenience, if you prefer, you can now pay your annual fees via PayPal, Venmo, or credit card. The Venmo address is @kuau-bayview-maui. If you have a PayPal account and do a 'Family & Friends' transfer to the HOA PayPal account at kuaubayviewmaui@gmail.com, there are no additional fees, ie. you pay $135 for 2026 and the HOA receives $135. But if you use PayPal to pay by credit card and you pay as a 'Service,' PayPal takes the fee out of the money received by the HOA, ie. you pay $135 but the HOA receives only $129.80. So you have to pay $140.39 to get $135 to the HOA, or $190.13 to get $183 to the HOA. It is much easier to just send $135 as Family & Friends (NOT Goods & Services). There are many PayPal Fee Calculators online but they all seem to give different results. Please remember that, if you use PayPal, it is YOUR responsibility to pay their fees. If the HOA does not receive the full amount of the dues by the due date of Jan 1st, your payment may incur a $15 late fee.

Late Fees

• Please make sure your payment is received by Jan 1st each year so all payments can be deposited on Jan 2nd. Late fees of $15 per month will be applied to payments not received by Jan 5th. If your email address changes, or your payment will be late for whatever reason, please let us know.
• Owners who still owe money to the Association after one year become ineligible for any fee discounts or bonuses and must pay the non-discounted rate ($183).
• In 2013 we thoroughly explored the possibility of using ACH (Automated Clearing House) fee payments, whereby the annual dues would be automatically debited from owners' bank accounts. Here are the numerous reasons why we decided against auto-debits.
• The Association is required to retain a certain amount of funds in reserve for maintenance and/or replacement of the Association assets. Assets include the retention basin fence, the Hana Hwy rock wall, the Lae St rock wall, and the irrigation system (timers, valves, sprinkler heads, pipes, etc). We have estimated that $60,000 in reserves is a good level to maintain. Our reserves are fully funded.
• Due to the mishandling of the Association records between June 2004 and June 2012, the owner accounts had to be pieced together from paper records and corrected one-by-one. The data was rebuilt in a database and Payment Histories from 2004 to date were sent to each owner for verification. Thousands of dollars in excessive late fees & fines were credited back to the owners. All owner accounts were corrected and have been 100% accurate since 2013.
• By 2014 we had every owner's account balance down to $0.00. From then on everyone became responsible for paying their fees on time. The Board ruled that there would be no more waiving of late fees as there is no legitimate reason why any owner cannot pay on time. We are all adults here and it is not fair to the owners who do pay on time for a couple of owners to think that they don't have to pay their share in a timely manner.