Residential Communties Initiative...???

**Guest1** · 10-18-2004, 11:52 PM

Any of you On Post/On Base housing people facing this?!

Our Post is turning over housing to a contractor for new buiding, renovations, & maintenance.....I guess in the overall scheme of things it sounds good - BUT - they're talking about putting our BAH in our monthly pay & then we'll have to cut them a check for "rent"....

Has anyone else dealt with this change over & if so can you give me the *real* lowdown on it?!

TIA!

**lucy979** · 10-19-2004, 04:48 AM

I haven't Debbie! I hope you can find something out.

**Ellise** · 10-19-2004, 10:46 AM

Debbie, I want to say that they tried that once before at Fort Polk, LA and it didn't ride. I know all of the base housing we lived in was handled by a contractor, then back to non-military DOH? I think thst's it. I wish you the best of luck in finding out the "real" truth. Keep us posted

**frugalmel** · 10-21-2004, 11:39 PM

We live off post, so we do that all the time. (BAH in check and we pay rent/mortgage) Here they have talked about switching to metered electircity, but dont' know if they have done that. They haven't talked about going to a rent system though.

The maintenance on most posts is done by a contract company as far as I know. Here a company won a bid to remodel some of the older housing and it looks pretty good. Like I said, we live off post though.