Re: Special Assessment to complete Common House
From: Joani Blank (joaniswansway.com)
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:27:17 -0700 (PDT)
Another option would be for you to borrow money from a bank, or better yet, from one or a group of the current residents at a low rate of interest payable over a bunch of years, and make the payments out of your homeowners dues over as much time as you need to make it manageable. Also, remember that since you are deciding this as a group, you can put together kind of unconventional hybrid arrangement, where perhaps you decide to do a special assessment for a smaller amount, say one or two thousand per household, and borrow the rest from one of more of you.

I don't know if you've been collecting dues long enough to have enough $ in your long-term reserve to consider borrowing some of what you need to finish the Common House from that reserve (and pay the fund back with the same % interest it's currently earning), but that would be another way to go.

Joani Blank
Swan's Market Cohousing
Oakland, CA

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Joani

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