Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Rental Percentage? Participation Levels?

[David Heimann (heimann]

Hello Everyone,

	At Jamaica Plain Cohousing we have a limit on rentals of 30%, or 9 
units.  Also, for an owner to absentee rent for more than one year, they 
would need approval by the Homeowners' Association for each year beyond 
the first (for the first year they need to notify the Association and have 
a written rental agreement for a rental of more than 60 days).

	In actual experience, we had one unit whose owner rented it out 
for two years to the same tenant.  She had planned to move back 
thereafter, but personal circumstances changed and she sold the unit 
instead.  Currently, we have a unit rented out in its first year of this 
being so.  For both rentals, the tenants have been extremely active in the 
community, more so than some of the owners.


	We have never had more than one unit at a time being rented out on 
an absentee basis for more than four months, and we have been very happy 
with those tenants.


Regards,
David Heimann
JP Cohousing




Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 09:44:47 -0700
From: Susan McFee <susan.mcfee2020 [at] gmail.com>
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: [C-L]_ Rental Percentage? Participation Levels?
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What is your percentage of rental homes?
How are your participation levels in comparison to that amount?
Our community had a discussion when we were close to 10% full suite rentals
and there was no consensus around capping it. Now that we are at 26%
rentals and inching closer to 70% home owners there are a few questions
being raised about participation and parking, especially since other
stratas cap their full suite rentals at 10% or follow rules such as "first
home owner of a unit may rent - when the unit is sold, future home owners
may not rent".
We haven't compared the mix of owners who participate and owners who don't
to the renters who participate and renters who don't - so that may be a
step prior to community discussion.
We are also in a transition phase between consensus and Sociocracy, and the
new levels of transparency appear to be encouraging action in a wider
variety of areas.
Thank you for any insights, stories or suggestions you respond back with,
Susan McFee
WindSong Cohousing
susanmcfee2020 at gmail dot com