Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Legal services consultant

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

I have acted  in such capacity on a few occasions. What conventional
attorneys wanted to know from me is, how is this legally different from a
standard (condo, coop, etc.) and are there legal issues which are unique to
this kind of living that should be considered.

The primary thing which astounds them is that people investing in this
lifestyle are willing to trust each other and work things out. Once an
attorney understands this, they can craft the legal frameworks
appropriately, but it is foreign to everything they do, so often it takes
several examples before they consider cooperation a possibility at all. And
deep down, I'm not sure they actually believe its possible, but that's OK.
Having a defined litigation path is not really a problem, and residents are
free to  solve their issues in the manner that suits them, which seldom
requires legal  litigation. Occasionally things do break down in some places
so having defined legal pathway is a good idea, and that boilerplate
standard ones are time tested and work.

Rob Sandelin
Sky Valley Environments  <http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm>
Field skills training for student naturalists
Floriferous [at] msn.com


-----Original Message-----
From: cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org
[mailto:cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org]On Behalf Of Bruce Hecht
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 6:15 PM
To: Cohousing-L
Subject: [C-L]_Legal services consultant



We will be using services of an attorney throughout our cohousing project
and do have a local attorney who has background in real estate law that we
will be working with.  I was wondering if it would be beneficial to have an
attorney that has specific experience with cohousing available as a
consultant to our local attorney. Does a person like this exist and would we
save time and money redesigning the wheel having such a consultant?  I would
appreciate any thoughts on this matter and any references.

Thanks,

Bruce Hecht
Coho Cohousing
Corvallis, OR



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