Cohousing-L Mailing List: Who is providing workshops on concensus in cohousing?

[Richart Keller (richart.keller]

Am wondering who is doing workshops to help forming cohousing communities
learn to use concensus?  

Also, who is doing workshops on concensus for existing communities?

(Other than the rich variety of assistance available at the CohoUS national
conference...)

Rick



Richart Keller, AICP
Pioneer Valley Cohousing
120 Pulpit Hill Road #25
Amherst, MA 01002
413-835-0011
401 486-2677 (cell)
(richart.keller [at] gmail.com)


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Lofft [mailto:tlofft [at] hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 3:05 PM
To: Cohousing Network-L
Subject: [C-L]_ Property Taxes on Common Property




In MD, all communities owning common property in the name of the Community
Association are entitled to have the common property exempt from assessment
and taxation in as much as the common property is never sold or purchased
individually by any Seller or Purchaser of a home. The value of the
community property is imputed as being a part of the value of the individual
residences being sold and purchased by private parties.
 
If the common use property is retained in the private name of the developer
or a partnership or corporation that is not a registered
Community/Homeowners' Association, then it continues to be assessed and
taxed as private property.
 
For example, if the community were to rent a home from a private owner and
use the rented property as a common use property, the owner would have to
pay local government and state property taxes. 
 
In any case, all expenses of the Community Association are budgeted for on
an annual basis. The Community Association assessments are then levied
against each individual property owner and payable as a monthly assessment. 

Tom Lofft
Liberty Village, MD

Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:34:56 -0600
From: "Shari Hirst" <sharihirst13 [at] gmail.com>
Subject: [C-L]_ Property Taxes on Common Property
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
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ElderGrace in Santa Fe, NM, is wondering how other CoHousing communities
handle property taxes on their Common buildings. Do you pay property taxes
on Common buildings and how are they collected? Does your County divide it
and charge each member for their share or does your County charge your HOA a
separate bill? Thank you for your information. 
 
Shari Hirst
sharihirst13 [at] gmail.com 
ElderGrace CoHousing
Santa Fe, NM 87507
 
                                          
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