Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Limiting whole-house renting in CoHousing

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> 
> Sharon, could you define what you mean by "no absentee owners"?  Does this 
> mean  person owning a home, lives there, and rents out part of the home (1 
> bedroom, etc.) to a roommate, partner, etc.?

Someone who doesn’t live in the community. 

If the person is living there, they aren’t absent. We recently had a case of 
person who had already rented for 3 years and wanted to take a “roommate”. The 
person lives in town but is clearly not living in the unit so the renter 
couldn’t be a roommate. We would very much like to have the owner back, but not 
with an untruthful situation. We also had had two residents who had rented for 
3 years and were unable to move back in. They paid their condo fees for a year 
as the units remained empty until they could sell or move back in.

We don’t pay a lot of attention to roommate situations. Many residents have had 
roommates for a few months or a few years. Sometimes they participate in the 
community and sometimes not.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Washington DC

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