Re: Assessment abatement request | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com) | |
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:02:08 -0700 (PDT) |
> On Aug 26, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Pat Elliott <pdelliott43 [at] gmail.com> wrote: > > A member of our community bought her unit last year but never moved in, her > circumstances having changed. For the last nine months, she has been trying > to sell it or rent it long-term with no success for a variety of reasons. Now > she is requesting that the HOA abate her assessments from about $320 to $100 > a month until she either has a tenant or sells the unit. As Tom said there are multiple legal consequences for doing this. If you do it file a lien. But I would also raise the issue that you are also giving her a pass by not requiring labor. Is she helping with the landscaping? Cooking? The myriad of other things a new community needs? The community labor needs are based on having all units contributing. If she isn’t contributing, you are already over burdened. A cohousing budget consists of two things: Money and labor. if labor is missing, the financial condition weakens, as well as the vitality of the community. And to put a blunt point on it, the owner may also be unrealistic in her demands on the sales price or conditions. She needs to be realistic and excusing her responsibilities is rarely helpful in encouraging that. As below, a current member might be able to give or loan her the money so the issue is between them, not the association. It can take a really long time for new community to realize that all is not milk and honey in cohousing. Everyone still has to support the community with money and time. And just because people are living in cohousing doesn’t mean they are honest. > On Aug 27, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> > wrote: > > We have created a "good neighbor fund" where neighbors can choose to help > one another with expenses like HOA, meals, and coho expenses. This has been discussed in our community but never acted on. I’ve been in situations where people were allowed to pay based on their own determination of need. I’ll never do it again on an institutional basis. Everyone has their own idea of what need is and unless there is standardized means testing, expectations of on person’s need can be another persons normal standard of living. Personal attitudes and judgements of who is deserving are also likely to be unfair. Unless you are an old community, and probably a small one, I don’t think this is workable. Much better I think is to have residents give or loan money to each other independently of the association. The loans are made on the basis of personal knowledge and trust, not an institutional judgements. When we moved in (to repeat a story) there was a day when suddenly we all had to have 5% deposits in by 6:00 or lose our land. It was impossible for some of us to get funds released from CDs and IRAs that quickly. Community members found or designed a form that we used so community members could give short term loans to others for the purpose of making the deadline. This worked fine and it was on a person to person basis with the community facilitating the loans. Sharon ---- Sharon Villines, Washington DC "Behavior is determined by the prevailing form of decision making." Gerard Endenburg
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