Cohousing-L Mailing List: Assessments

[Zukrow (Zukrow]

Greetings,

A few months ago I posted a request for info to the coho list about
allocating monthly dues.  My group, Valley Oaks Village, in Chico, CA has
been grappling with that issue, and I am researching it again.  What I'd like
to know is, how do different groups allocate monthly dues among households
after move-in.    And how did your group allocate common costs during
construction among households?  

After consensing on a formula to allocate monthly dues, we were told by our
consultant that it would never be passed by the California Dept of Real
Estate.  So we temporarily consensed to allocate monthly dues equally among
households, to be revisited after move-in.  In our earlier discussions about
this issue, information about what other groups were doing was very helpful,
but people were also interested in how other groups allocated common
construction costs.  I already have information about monthly dues from Puget
Ridge, Southside Park, Doyle Street, Monterey, Sharingwood, N Street &
Highline, but would love info about allocating construction costs.

We are now in the early part of our construction phase.  Infrastructure
development is completed, and I think they're just about to start pouring
slabs.  We're building 28 homes, 23 of which have been spoken for.  

Thanks for the info,
Monica Zukrow
Presently of San Francisco, soon to be of Valley Oaks Village, Chico, CA.