Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Building Relationships

[Landress, Scott (CICG - NY Mortgages) (SLandress]

Dave,

Thanks for the reply.  I'm not sure Rochester is a match for us, but we
wish you luck.

On the issue of caualties, I believe it's cool to accumulate trust, but
money definitely matters in our society.  Mutual insurance and
indemnification would be a fairly egalitarian measure to take, though.
The message would be:  let's cover one another, and take care not to
hurt ourselves.

Good luck, 

Scott

> ----------
> Reply To:     davegaj [at] apk.net
> Sent:         Sunday, November 09, 1997 12:56 PM
> Subject:      Building Relationships
> 
> 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
>