Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing dues vs. HOA dues

[Rosemary McNaughton (astromezzo]

i'd be curious how other communities handle the taxes and legal issues
on these separate dues?  do you have a separate entity that does
things like meals and events and child care, or is it all rolled into
the condo association business, or are some things separate, some
combined?

-Rosemary McNaughton
Rocky Hill Cohousing
Florence, MA

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Diana E Carroll
<dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> In Mosaic Commons, we do this because we were required to.  25% of our
> homes are "affordable housing" through our state's department of
> housing.  As part of the (many! complicated!) negotiations that went
> into the final agreement about this, we agreed that belonging to the HOA
> was required for all residents, but that belonging to the "cohousing
> group" was optional for affordable home-buyers.
>
> The other reasons is because part of our agreed on vision includes
> sliding scale fees.  For various legal reasons, we could not have the
> base HOA fees be variable -- they are permanently tied to home square
> footages.  Our cohousing dues, on the other hand, are on a sliding
> scale, so at least SOME of our expense structure can follow our original
> vision, even though not all of it does.
>
> - Diana
>
> On 10/27/2009 8:38 PM, Doug Huston wrote:
>> I believe some cohousing communities divide up their dues into two
>> categories.
>> One category being "typical" HOA dues including insurance,
>> maintenance, reserves, other associated physical infrastructure costs,
>> etc.
>> The second category possibly included child care, workshops/trainings,
>> parties, garden, etc. The second category are costs more linked to
>> cohousing&  community.
>> I am wondering why the cohousing communities that divide the dues do
>> so. It seems to me that it is all part of the cohousing community you
>> live in, so what are the reasons for this? Thanks.
>>
>> Doug Huston - Ashland Cohousing Community in Oregon
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