Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: allocating common costs

[Suzanne L Hirsch (slhirsch]

>  I don't think anyone from the Rochester, NY group that I visited recently is
> on coho-l right now, but I thought they had an interesting way of doing it.
> Their common house is half of a duplex that is owned by one of their members.
> The group rents the common house from the owners. (Two adjoining houses are
> owned (or rented?)  by members,  a couple of other member households live very
> close by, and a couple of others live a mile or two away).  I think I've got
> this right (if not, someone please correct me: The household type that pays
> the most -- if I remember  correclty, it's about $86/month--is a family of two
> adults. If they have a child or children, they pay LESS. A single adult pays
> even less. 
>
Wait a minute. How?
Is that common house rent, or everything?

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