Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: New Members

[Casey Morrigan (cjmorr]

In California, before a sale is completed, the banks would want a copy of 
the CCR's and information about what are officially called assessments 
rather than dues.  So it is up to the sellers to provide that info to 
buyers.

As to your other question, this has come up more for renters, since we 
haven't had any home sales since we moved in four years ago.  We don't have 
an orientation for renters.  We have one household with more turnover than 
anyone else, and we don't know what info those renters get. Nothing 
systematic or written.  We just completed a written fact sheet/ 
introduction to the community.  That should give us a start.  We have 
encountered resistance from the owner who rents on a signed commitment to 
community work, since they view it as a barrier to recruiting renters.
But I think it that Heartwood's idea is a good one, nevertheless.

Casey Morrigan
Two Acre Wood
Sebastopol California

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Becky Schaller [mailto:bschaller [at] theriver.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 6:31 AM
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: [C-L]_New Members
>
>
>
> We have only recently needed to talk about new member
> orientation and I have
> a few questions for this group.
>
> 1. Whose responsibility is it to tell new homeowners about
> HOA dues?  Is it
> the sellers responsibility or the community's?
>
> 2.  When do you tell people about community work
> expectations?   And who
> does this?   Does the seller/landowner tell them before they sign the
> papers?  Or does the community tell them afterwards?
>
> I appreciate knowing how other communities handle these
> communications.
>
> Thanks,
> Becky
>
>
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