Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Changing common elements

[Matt Lawrence (matt]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Sharon Villines wrote:

> You may never be happy in a community where things are done by
> unpaid, unprofessional staff. When work has to be shared, it will be
> done by people who have a wide range of standards and a wide range of
> expectations.
>
> Even in real life everywhere , very few laws are followed or
> enforced. If they were, we would all probably be nuts. In cohousing,
> it is hard to get people to even write laws.

If there is already a set of bylaws and they are being ignored, I think it 
is a very bad thing.  Those are some of the basic agreements made between 
the owners of the community resources.  To ignore them is to say to the 
other members of the community that you don't care and you can not be 
trusted.

At this point, I'm in agreement with Norm that the other folks in the 
community are seriously in the wrong.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.