Cohousing-L Mailing List: Annual costs - charging residents and/or owners

[IAN_HIG (IAN_HIG]

From: Hig, Cascade CoHousing, Tasmania

I am seeking information about how functioning cohouses catagorise
the costs of running the cohouse for charging to owners and residents.

At Cascade CoHousing residents may be owners or tenants and owners may or may
not be resident.  We need to decide how we are going to split the costs of
running the cohouse between owners and residents. 
There seem to be three classes of costs in running a cohouse
capital costs such as maintaining the common house and major infrustructure
which might best be charged to owners, general maintanence of grounds, minor
works and maybe the annual costs of running the common house which might 
logically be charged to all residents or households and thirdly the costs of
running common meals which could be split in a number of ways.

How are other cohouses dealing with this issue,  what do you charge to whom,
and how do you charge for common meals.

Regards

Hig

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Ian Higginbottom                                Ian_hig [at] antdiv.gov.au

Cascade CoHousing
Saunders Cresent
South Hobart, Tasmania 7004
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