Building Relationships
From: Dave Gaj (davegajapk.net)
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 11:57:07 -0600
Hi.  My name is Dave and I'm working with a group of folks in the
northeast Ohio area (Akron/Cleveland) to create a cohousing community. 
We are in the very early stages and are always looking for more people.

Anyway, one of the things we are currently doing to get to know each
other is to help with projects at each other's houses (painting, etc.) 
A question arose about the possible consequences if someone were to get
seriously injured while working at someone else's house.  I don't mean
that anyone would sue (we are definately not a sue-happy group) but if
insurance didn't cover it or whatever, there would probably be a grey
area about responsibility involved.  Someone had actually mentioned
creating a "good faith" waiver kind of thing before working on projects
like this.  I was wondering if anyone out there has had anything similar
to this occur or had any input on the matter.

I am not a fan of legalities and believe that people generally go into
this type of endeavor with good faith intentions anyway, so a "contract"
would be unnecessary and perhaps give too much a feeling of mistrust or
formality.  But this was brought up in our group and will be discussed
at our next meeting so I was searching for helpful ideas.

Thanks!

Dave

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