Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: "Community guests" in CH guest rooms

[Diana Carroll (dianaecarroll]

We often have "community guests"...visitors from other cohousing groups,
prospective buyers, etc.

I believe we charge $20 a night.  (Residents get 5 nights per year "free"
for their guests and pay $10 per night for over that.)

We've never discussed having different rules for them.  Our rules are pretty
minimal for the guest, anyway. (The host is required to clean up the room,
wash the linens, etc.  When a community guest is there, we try to get a
volunteer to be their "host".)  We've never had a problem that I'm aware of
with guests acting in an inappropriate way that would make us enact rules.
What we do is provide information to help them understand how things work.
(Guest towels are stored here, kitchen is there, rinse out your dishes and
leave them next to the sink, watch out the water in the main bathroom takes
a long time to heat up, etc.)

To my knowledge, all our guests have been gracious and well-behaved!

- Diana


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Joani Blank <joani [at] swansway.com> wrote:

>
> All of our cohousing  communities that have one or more
> guest rooms in their common house allow friends and
> family members of resident households to stay in their
> common guest room(s).
>
> I'm interested to know if, in addition, communities are
> open to having "community guests" stay in their CH
> guest rooms. By community guests I mean people who
> contact you via the contact person you name on your
> website or via the community directory on
> www.cohousing.org (or www.on ic.org) or someone
> referred by a friend or a friend of a friend)--that is,
> they are not the guest  of a particular resident.
>
> If you do have community guests do you place any
> restrictions on them as far as use their use of your
> common facilities (other than the guest room(s) and
> guest bathroom(s)) such as your common kitchen, dining
> area, laundry, outdoor amenities. Also curious to know
> how much, if anything, per night you charge for the use
> of your guest rooms these days and if there is a
> different charge/donation for friends/family and for
> community guests.
>
> Answer to the list if you like, or to me personally, if
> you'd rather not tell the cohousing.l world about your
> situation for some reason.
>
> Joani Blank
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