Cohousing-L Mailing List: Guest Rooms

[Joani Blank (joani]

Last spring, I posted a questionnaire about guest rooms in our completed 
communities. It was brought to my attention recently that I never posted 
the a summary of that survey that was responded to by 27 communities. The 
survey asked about number of guest rooms, cost to different sorts of 
guests, and who maintains the room(s). I have a chart showing the responses 
which I can send to anyone who requests it as a Word document attachment. 
For those of you who cannot receive or cannot read attachments, here is a 
text-only summary.

Of the 27 communities for whom I have information, 6 have no guest room, 4 
say "not yet" or "in progress," 5 have one guest room and 10 have two guest 
rooms. I know of at least three communities who did not respond each of 
which has 2 guest rooms. Five communities have no charge for use (two of 
these accept donations.). A couple of communities charge $5/night, one 
charges $7, 4 charge $10, one charges $15. One charges nothing for friends 
of the community and $25 for "others." Only one community charges $25 plus 
$15 for cleaning up to 5 nights and $1/night for cleaning thereafter. That 
same group charges $50 for unrelated/stranger guests.  One community gives 
member households seven free days per year for their guests, another gives 
each household 5 free nights a year.  In one community friends and family 
are free, cohousing folks from other cohousing groups or communities are 
$10 and "others/the general public" pay $25.   Most communities did not 
respond to the maintenance question but three mentioned that guests are 
responsible for their own cleanup. I don't know what that cleanup includes.

Joani Blank
Swan's Market Cohousing, Oakland, CA
Member, Board of Directors
THE COHOUSING NETWORK  www.cohousing.org


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